Book Reviews

26 January 2015

Jemima J by Jane Green

Jemima Jones is seven stone overweight and her nasty flat-mates don’t let her forget it. She works for the Kilburn Herald, overshadowed by her colleague Geraldine, who has far less ...

10 December 2014

A Beginner's Guide to Salad by Jennifer Joyce

Ruth is a twenty something, who hates exercise and eating healthily- she would rather curl up on the sofa with a giant bar of chocolate and take away to watch ...

1 December 2014

Sweet Temptation by Lucy Diamond

Sweet Temptation tells the story of three women who all meet at a slimming class. Maddie has an awful boss who takes delight in criticising her on air at her ...

8 August 2014

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With books piling high on my desk I decided it was time that I needed help! I could not read all of them even if I had all week to ...

21 July 2014

Tummy Love by Sarah Orton

Melanie Henriksen is the UK’s most popular children’s cook, affectionately called the ‘kiddie cook’. One night she returns home after the launch of her new book to find her youngest ...

26 November 2013

The Art of Letting Go by Anna Bloom

The Art Of Letting Go is definitely a book that deserves a place on your kindle and deserves your utmost time to devour everything inside of it. Anna has put ...

19 November 2013

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Andrew Davidson’s debut novel The Gargoyle is certainly striking, and not just because of its blackened pages. The Gargoyle is more of a composition of short stories that has Marianne ...
18 November 2013

Solo by William Boyd

As the book sleeve says “It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge.  A seasoned veteran of the (secret) service, 007 is sent ...
17 November 2013

Something Blue by Emily Giffin

Something Blue is the follow on from Something Borrowed, and begins where Darcy finds out that her best friend since she was little, Rachel, has been sleeping with her fiancée ...

14 November 2013

HHhH by Laurent Binet

HHhH is unlike anything I have ever read; based in Prague in 1942 the story centralises around two Czechoslovakian parachutists that have been sent on a secret mission to kill ...

13 November 2013

The Evil Beneath by A J Waines

The Evil Beneath is a page turning thriller with lots of psychological insights, as the main protagonist is a psychotherapist, who is unwillingly dragged into a police investigation, when a ...

12 November 2013

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris

In a vividly-written secret memoir kept under lock and key for more than 100 years, Picquart brings to life the Paris of the 1890s and tells the true story of ...

11 November 2013

The Cheesemaker’s House by Jane Cable

The Cheesemaker’s House won the Suspense & Crime category of The Alan Titchmarsh Show’s People’s Novelist competition, reaching the last four out of over a thousand entries and when you ...

7 November 2013

Where She Went by Gayle Forman

Gayle Forman’s sequel to If I Stay sees the aftermath of the horrific accident that Mia suffered. Told instead from Adam’s perspective, Where She Went is just as emotional and ...
17 October 2013

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Gayle Forman’s new novel, If I Stay, takes emotional accounts to a new level. When Mia is the victim of a horrific car accident, she is left in an in-between ...
2 October 2013

Hanns and Rudolph by Thomas Harding

Hanns and Rudolf by Thomas Harding is a fascinating historical and personal account of the lives of Hanns Alexander a German Jews who captures Rudolf Hoss, the notorious commandant of ...

1 October 2013

Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes

Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes is a dark crime thriller. Annabel is a lonely girl who lives for her cat, her mother and her work as a civilian police analyst. ...

23 September 2013

No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay

No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay is the story of Cynthia Archer who when she was teenager has a fight with her parents only to awake and find that ...

21 September 2013

The Drive by Tyler Keevil

A single call from his Czech girlfriend catapults Trevor into a serious crisis. Desperate to get his mojo back, he blazes down Highway 99 in a rented Dodge Neon. But soon ...

20 September 2013

Glittering Fortunes by Victoria Fox

Charlie Lomax hasn’t seen his brother in years. Cato’s been too busy living the A-list Hollywood dream to bother with the likes of a small Cornish town. But now he’s ...

19 September 2013

Tampa by Alissa Nutting

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste ...

18 September 2013

The Doll's House by Tania Carver

Synopsis:  From the outside, the house was unremarkable. Just one of many on an ordinary, suburban estate. But inside was a different matter. With pink ribbons and pink walls, stuffed toy ...

17 September 2013

Coco's Secret by Niamh Greene

I'd read A Message To Your Heart by Niamh Greene and really enjoyed it, so I was looking forward to reading Coco's Secret and discovering a new story. I really ...

10 September 2013

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Whilst The Shadow of the Wind is not a new book it felt fitting to read this weekend as the cold swept in and autumn hiding around the corner. The ...