Today I’m pleased to be helping kick off the blog tour for the award winning The Leavers by Lisa Ko. Blurb: One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon – and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother […]
The Imaginary by A F Harrold illustrated by Emily Gravett
April 3, 2018 By 1 Comment
Ages and ages ago I started reading The Imaginary as a bedtime story. Turned out it was far too scary to be an end of day book, so we moved it to lunchtimes. Although the children loved the language and the characters, some parts were very upsetting so we kept having breaks. (Fortunately, you can […]
Dreams and Regrets by Emily Williams, author of Rafferty Lincoln loves.
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One Small Act of Kindness by Lucy Dillon
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Winter Storm (The Inventory 4) by Andy Briggs
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Force of Nature by Jane Harper
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Twelve nights by Andrew Zurcher – cover reveal and giveaway!
January 6, 2018 By 29 Comments
Note, post contains affiliate links. Pre order at Amazon Kay and her little sister, Eloise, never imagined that their standard icy Christmas Eve in Cambridge would be the start of a twelve-night odyssey . . . Kay’s father is working late – as usual. Fed up, her mother bundles her daughters into the car and […]
Otherworld by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller
November 7, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Otherworld – the game is compulsively playable. The book is compulsively readable. Utterly immersive, with a story that rocks along despite its main character striving to be unlikeable. He’s not fond of himself, and doesn’t see why anyone else would feel otherwise. Give it a try, but make sure you’ve plenty of time. Once you […]
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
November 6, 2017 By 3 Comments
I don’t know what I was expecting from Little Fires Everywhere, but what I got was a compulsively readable book, filled with fascinating characters on a slow but inexorable dance towards the disastrous start of the book in ways that I couldn’t have anticipated, and couldn’t wait to see unfold. Buy at Amazon Everyone in […]
Stories for homes blog tour
September 26, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Tonight I’ve a slightly different type of review post for you. In the stories for homes anthology, published and unpublished writers come together to create this selection of stories about what ‘home’ means. There are 55 writers included in this second charity anthology that brings issues around housing, poverty and crisis to life through the […]
