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The Devil You Know by Terry Tyler @TerryTyler4 #bookreview #suspense #crimefiction

Posted on 21st January 2017 By Nicola

Every serial killer is someone’s friend, spouse, lover or child…. Young women are being murdered in the Lincolnshire town of Lyndford, where five people fear […]

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Befriend a Book Blogger – it’s me on Rebecca Bradley’s blog!

Posted on 18th January 2017 By Nicola

The lovely Rebecca Bradley, crime writer and blogger extraordinaire, has very kindly featured me today in her Befriend a Book Blogger feature. Pop over there […]

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Little Sister by Isabel Ashdown @IsabelAshdown @TrapezeBooks #bookreview #LittleSisterBook

Posted on 17th January 2017 By Nicola

After sixteen years apart sisters Jessica and Emily are reunited. With the past now behind them, the warmth they once shared quickly returns and before […]

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Seven Day Spotlight – week ending 15/01/17

Posted on 15th January 2017 By Nicola

This week I finished Perfect Remains by Helen Fields, a gruesome but really well plotted crime novel. And I’m currently heading towards the end of Little […]

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Perfect Remains by Helen Fields @Helen_Fields @crimefix #bookreview #crimefiction #suspense

Posted on 13th January 2017 By Nicola

On a remote Highland mountain, the body of Elaine Buxton is burning. All that will be left to identify the respected lawyer are her teeth […]

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The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan @SVaughanAuthor @HodderBooks #bookreview

Posted on 12th January 2017 By Nicola

Happy Publication Day to Sarah Vaughan. Her book, The Farm at the Edge of the World, is out in paperback today. It was one of […]

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Monday Meet Up feature over on Karen King’s blog

Posted on 9th January 2017 By Nicola

The lovely Karen King, who is a prolific author of romance novels and books for children and young adults, has very kindly featured me today […]

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Seven Day Spotlight – week ending 08/01/17

Posted on 8th January 2017 By Nicola

As everything got back to normal after the Christmas period so did my time for reading (I surprised myself with my productivity!) but I’m pleased […]

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#bookreview Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson

Posted on 8th January 2017 By Nicola

Soho, 1965. In a tiny two-bed flat above a Turkish café on Neal Street lives Anna Treadway, a young dresser at the Galaxy Theatre. When […]

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Everything You Told Me by Lucy Dawson @lucydawsonbooks @CorvusBooks

Posted on 2nd January 2017 By Nicola

You went to bed at home, just like every other night. You woke up in the back of a taxi, over 250 miles away. You […]

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Thank you @michaeljbooks for #ThePush by @ashleyau

Thank you @michaeljbooks for #ThePush by @ashleyaudrain. This is a 2021 book I'm really excited about.

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Thank you so much Phoebe Morgan @avon_books for se

Thank you so much Phoebe Morgan @avon_books for sending #TheShadowMan by @helenfields_author. I'm a huge fan of this author's work and I'm really looking forward to this one (even if it doesn't have my beloved Luc in it 💔😂).

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Thank you Alexia @vikingbooksuk for #MrWilderAndMe

Thank you Alexia @vikingbooksuk for #MrWilderAndMe by @jonathancoewriter. It looks and sounds wonderful 😍

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New review: All Your Little Lies by Marianne Holme

New review: Space Hopper by Helen Fisher. To be pu

New review: Space Hopper by Helen Fisher. To be published by Simon and Schuster in February 2021.
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I find time travel novels pretty hard to resist, particularly when they head into the past and concentrate very firmly on real life scenarios.
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Faye is happy with her life. She has two beautiful children and if husband Eddie’s foray into training as a vicar isn’t quite what she had in mind then she’s prepared to get behind it if that’s what he wants. But there’s something missing. Faye’s mum died when she was 8 in fairly unexpected circumstances and it’s left a hole in her life that she’s never been able to fill.
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This is where it gets really interesting. Faye accidentally finds a portal into the past and finds she can get back to the 1970s when she was a young girl, before she lost her mum, and spend precious time with her as an adult.
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I must admit that at the beginning of the book I wasn’t wholly convinced by the method of time travel or Faye and her mum’s relationship in the past, but as I read on I grew more and more invested in Faye’s journeys and I felt the storyline as a whole started to knit together more. I found her relationship with her mum to be very moving.
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What I always enjoy most of all about time travel stories is the sheer mind-bending aspect of them, the way that a character can travel into the past and was absolutely meant to be there to make things happen in the future. There were some of those mind-bending happenings in this book and also a couple of serious hand over mouth moments. The plotting is brilliant and I thought the author really made this book a compelling and thought-provoking read. It certainly provided a talking point for me with family and friends.
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After being slightly unsure at the start I ended up loving Space Hopper. It’s a touching exploration of mother/daughter relationships, it’s an enthralling story of venturing into the past, and it reminded me of my own Sunday teatimes watching Bullseye. It’s nostalgic, original and slightly crazy, and I enjoyed it very much.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof copy of the book.
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Last • Now • Next 📚 Good morning and happy

Last • Now • Next
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Good morning and happy Sunday. I thought I'd share my #lastnownextreads with you today.
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Last - Space Hopper by Helen Fisher. I'm a sucker for a time travel novel and this one, which will be published in February next year, is a great one. Review coming soon.
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Now - All Your Little Lies by Marianne Holmes. I'm reading this for the blog tour and it has a protagonist who behaves in rather a bizarre way! I'm really enjoying this one.
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Next - The Illustrated Child by Polly Crosby. This has been high on my want to read list for ages and I'm really looking forward to it.
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What are you reading at the moment?
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#SpaceHopper #JumpWithMe #AllYourLittleLies #TheIllustratedChild #toread #TBR #tbrpile #booksread #bookblogger #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #instareads #instabooks #lovereading #lovebooks #booklover #booklove #shortbookandscribes

New review: Christmas With the Teashop Girls by El

New review: Christmas With the Teashop Girls by Elaine Everest. Published by Pan Macmillan and out now.
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Christmas With the Teashop Girls picks up right where the first book, The Teashop Girls, left off. The girls are Rose, Katie and Lily and all of them work for the legendary Lyons teashops. I love all the little details about the teashops, the Nippies, and the way the shops work. Elaine Everest has obviously done lots of research to make it feel completely authentic.
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There’s plenty going on in this book. It’s 1940 and bombing raids are stepping up a gear, especially in London and along the Kent coast where the book is set. Rose is planning her wedding to Ben and getting used to the idea of her new role as his wife and stepmother to his two girls. Rose is the main character but there are lots of other characters who play a major part in the story and most of them seem to live at Sea View, the guesthouse run by Rose’s mother, Flora. Being under her roof must be like having a giant warm hug around you all the time.
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Despite the troubling times and quite a few ups and downs for the girls, this is a gentle read for the most part and it was just a delight to read. Everest writes with warmth and really makes the reader care about the characters. There’s also a great deal of empathy in her writing as we once again witness catastrophic wartime losses, and yet there’s also such camaraderie as they all troop down into the tunnels where they shelter during air raids. Nobody would choose to live through such events but there’s a real sense of pulling together as a community, friendship, and looking out for those around you.
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I’m hoping this isn’t the last we see of the Teashop Girls. I have a feeling that they have a lot more to tell us and I’d love to see how they all fare throughout the remainder of the war years. I raced through Christmas With the Teashop Girls and didn’t want to put it down. I was well and truly drawn back into the lives of the characters and I thought this was a gorgeous addition to the saga genre.
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Thank you to ED PR for asking me to be a part of the tour and for sending a copy of the book for review.
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New review: The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult.

New review: The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult. Published by Hodder on 20th October.
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This really was a book of two ways for me. I’ve loved some of Jodi Picoult’s books and was keen to read this one as the storyline really appealed to me and I was so intrigued by it.
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Dawn is a death doula, which means she is there to do anything that helps a person to pass away. That doesn’t mean nursing, but pretty much everything else. But she had wanted a career in Egyptology and that was cut short by family events. A near-death experience sets her thinking about the other path her life could have taken.
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This is not a Sliding Doors sort of story and we don’t see both possible lives as they would have played out, but it does bring forth the question of what would happen if we had taken that other path. Where would we be now? What would we be doing? I really liked that aspect of the story.
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There were some very thoughtful and moving sections. Picoult has never shied away from moral and ethical dilemmas and putting her characters in provocative situations. The parts where Dawn talks about her experiences as a death doula often brought tears springing to my eyes. But I’m afraid I struggled with the parts where Egyptology is at the forefront and I’d have preferred there to be a lot less of it.
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As always, the author has obviously done a lot of research and she’s produced something quite remarkable. As a whole it didn’t really work for me and I think the death doula storyline on its own could have made for a really compelling read, but there were segments that really drew me in, not just the doula parts but also Dawn’s family life and how the plane crash affects her.
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The Book of Two Ways wasn’t quite what I was hoping for and I think it will divide readers, but nevertheless I still enjoyed the writing and much of the story.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof copy of the book.
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Apparently I'm a sinner 😯😈 Thank you @viper

Apparently I'm a sinner 😯😈

Thank you @viper.books for this fabulous surprise #bookpost.

#CallMeMummy by @tinabakerbooks sounds amazing!

Thank you so much @susanmarie80 for sending The On

Thank you so much @susanmarie80 for sending The One Hundred Years of #LenniAndMargot by @itsmariannecronin. I've heard nothing but wonderful things about this book and I can't wait to read it.

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Thank you Hannah at Penguin/Fig Tree for #Unsettle

Thank you Hannah at Penguin/Fig Tree for #UnsettledGround by @writerclairefuller. I love this author's writing and this book sounds brilliant.

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Thank you @susanmarie80 for sending The Funny Thin

Thank you @susanmarie80 for sending The Funny Thing About #NormanForeman by @juliettahendersonauthor. It sounds absolutely gorgeous and I'm looking forward to learning how to #BeMoreNorman.

I love the little man and his suitcase travelling across the pages.

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