Rewrite the Stars by Emma Heatherington  First, I need to start by apologising to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for this incredibly late review. When I first joined NetGalley it wa…

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have…

WWW WEDNESDAYS is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World Of Words and is all about answering the three questions below. WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? I’m currently Three Strong Wom…

What am I currently reading? My goodness, how is it the last day of September already?! I’ve not been too well over the past week or so with a nasty throat infection, though finally starting …

Source: Review copyPublication: 29 September 2027 from SpherePP: 432ISBN-13: 978-1408722633 My thanks to Sphere for a review copy I look along the road and notice how many people are standing outside their houses or watching from doorways and windows. Staring. Studying.'Do you think this town will ever forgive me?' I ask.'Not in a million years.'

Source: Review copyPublication: 24 September 2026 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1917764568 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review In 1913, two brothers are sent into the forest to fend for themselves, forging a bond through hunger, freedom and endurance. Before the summer is over, a decision fractures that world, leaving a scar that will mark their family for generations.

This Week in Books is a feature hosted by Lipsy at Lipsyy Lost and Found that allows bloggers to share: What they’ve recently finished reading What they are currently reading What they ar…

This month I added 8 new review commitments to my TBR mountain. FIVE were offered to me via email widgets ; I requested TWO;  and ONE was an auto-approved title (All book descriptions are linked to…

My enormously grateful thanks to Amanda at Moonflower for sending me a copy of The Hiding Season by Ava Glass in return for an honest review. It is my pleasure to share my review today. You’l…

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have…

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Announcing a 2-week blog hiatus.

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. Each week has a new topic where you can then create your top ten…

This week’s topic: Autumn Freebie This week’s topic is an Autumn freebie. Now Autumn is my favourite time of the year but there’s not many books seemed to be set around that time …

Irish Goodbye – when you leave without saying goodbye in order to avoid emotional displays and/or to avoid disturbing others. This debut novel was on many ‘Best of 2025’ lists by …

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish, which is now being hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic…

This story begins at an exclusive London boarding school with best friends Freya and Josephine who are both seventeen years old. It would seem everything is going their way, and the world is their …

Synopsis: "A perfect couple.But one of them is a killer. Which one? Patrick Vanderpool, son of a billionaire media mogul, is destined for power.But the affair he's having could ruin everything. Vanessa Vanderpool, married to one of America's most influential men, has her own ambitions. But the affair he's having could ruin everything. When the other woman is found brutally murdered, there are only two suspects...

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.

the setup… Kate Fitzgerald was diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of leukemia (APL) when she was two years old. Her four-year old brother Jessie isn’t a bone marrow match so her parents, Sara an…

Title: The Ferryman’s Daughter (Bloodlines #1) Author: Yasmin Angoe Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime First published: October 1st 2026 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Finished reading: Septembe…

I always look forward to reading a book in Doug Johnstone’s Skelfs series. Ghost Notes is the seventh in the series and I feel I’ve got to know the Skelf women pretty well by now. That …

Mickey Barnes is an expendable.  His job is to take on the tasks that would usually be considered too dangerous for humans with a high chance of death. Need someone to go into an area of high radia…

My grateful thanks to Amanda at Moonflower for sending me a copy of Seething Lane by Jack Jewers in return for an honest review. It is my pleasure to share my review of Seething Lane today. Publish…

September 2026 reading is a wrap! Did you have a favorite September read?

What if the solutions to building a better future already exist?How to Live on Earth is an ambitious feature documentary that explores how humanity can build...

Let’s forget about the fact that I still have to read 13 titles on my 2026 list, and take a look at what I’m hoping to read before the end of 2026… Not counting the ARCs still pen…

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Watch Them Disappear, the 19th book in Carla Kovach’s Detective Gina Harte series. I’ve not read every book in this series, although I am trying …

As you will have gathered from several recent blogposts, Autumn is my favourite season so I was really pleased that the Autumn book in Hodder’s seasonal quartet has been published. Autumn: Th…

An unsettling read about how academics in the United States have a long, controversial history of conducting scientific experiments to test extrasensory perception (ESP), telepathy, and other claim…

Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Fitzpatrick lives a quiet life in the suburbs. Few would guess that Elsie, aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else’s business, harbours a secret she’s worked hard to bury. Because when it comes to murder, no one ever suspects little girls or old ladies. And Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick – once a little girl and now an old lady – has a strange history of people in her life coming to a foul end.

Time for another round of Yvonne’s Shorties! This time around a Japanese fiction translation that I loved and a high fantasy novella collection that was entertaining enough. Title: The Calico…

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Murder at the Manor House by Katie Gayle, the 10th book in the Julia Bird Mystery series. I love books with mature characters and Julia is one that I can rel…

Saturdays at the Café is a weekly feature hosted here to talk about and discuss the books I’ve discovered during the past week, added to my shelf and am excited about reading. They may be new/sched…

I’m delighted to be joined by Andrea Darby today, author of The Songs That Find Us. I think this sounds lovely and was disappointed not to be able to fit it in. The Songs That Find Us was pub…

As you know, I am an eclectic reader, and these are a few of the books that I was able to get from the library to listen to ealier this month. I read Olive Kitteridge by Lucy Stout and it was just …

Our protagonist, Jude Gray, is a young, childless widow who now runs her large sheep farm with the help of Noah, her shepherd, and her loyal dogs, Pip and Archie – with memories of her late husband…

To mark the paperback publication of The Winter Job, I am delighted to be able to repost my review of the hardback, and to celebrate the fact that this not only won the CWA Crime Fiction In Transla…

I’ve recently seen a few conversations happening around social media on the possibility of featuring college-aged characters in young adult books. While some readers are excited about the ide…