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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis @HodderBooks #BlogTour

Posted on 14th November 2019 By Nicola

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis. I loved this book and my review is below. My […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – 17 Church Row by James Carol @ZaffreBooks #BlogTour #CompulsiveReaders

Posted on 14th November 2019 By Nicola

I’m so pleased to be reviewing this fabulous twisty read today. My thanks to Zaffre for the finished copy of the book for review purposes […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from #NoFilter by Maxine Morrey @Scribbler_Maxi @BoldwoodBooks

Posted on 13th November 2019 By Nicola

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for No Filter by Maxine Morrey. I have an extract to share with you today. My thanks […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Interview with William Fagus, Author of The Purple-Bellied Parrot #RandomThingsTours

Posted on 12th November 2019 By Nicola

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Purple-Bellied Parrot by William Fagus. I have an interview with the author to share with […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – The Ex-Girlfriend by Nicola Moriarty #BlogTour

Posted on 11th November 2019 By Nicola

I’m really pleased to be sharing my review of this fabulous book today. My thanks to Sriya Varadharajan from Penguin for the place on the […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Mother and Child by Annie Murray @AMurrayWriter @panmacmillan #LoveBooksTours #BlogTour

Posted on 9th November 2019 By Nicola

I’m pleased to be reviewing Mother and Child by Annie Murray today, a book with an important theme. My thanks to Pan Macmillan for the copy […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Home Alone Harry by Jerry Rhodes and Rachael Messiter, Illustrated by Nicky Hill @rararesources #BlogTour #ChildrensBook

Posted on 9th November 2019 By Nicola

I’m so pleased to be reviewing this lovely children’s book today as part of the blog tour. My thanks to the Thunkies team for the […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from Look At Me Now by Simone Goodman @BoldwoodBooks #boldwoodblogger @simonegauthor

Posted on 8th November 2019 By Nicola

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Look at Me Now by Simone Goodman. I have a fabulous extract to share with you […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – The Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott @simonschusteruk #RandomThingsTours #BlogTour

Posted on 7th November 2019 By Nicola

The Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott is an absolutely stunning piece of writing. My thanks to Jess Barratt from Simon & Schuster for the […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Vroom-Town: The Adventure of Santa Claus and The Magic Truck Dust by Emer Conlon @VroomTown #AMagicalVroomTownChristmas #BlogTour

Posted on 5th November 2019 By Nicola

This is a delightful book for children and I’m so pleased to be sharing my review today. My thanks to Emer Conlon for sending me […]

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What a treat! Thank you Alainna Hadjigeorgiou @orionbooks for this lovely festive parcel. I love @veronicahenryauthor's books.

Save the date: A Wedding at the Beach Hut is out 28th May 2020 👰🏖️

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Thank you @bluemoosebooks for #SavingLucia by Anna Vaught #bookpost. It looks fabulous.
In 2020 Bluemoose are only publishing novels by women, of which this is the first.
#BlueMooseWomen2020

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Thank you so much @hqstories for #She by HC Warner #bookpost. It sounds so good and I can't wait to read it. Love the proof copy too. 130 pages in you have to turn it the other way around to read Ben's story. Love that!!!

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New review: Gone by Leona Deakin
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Oh wow, this is such a fantastic read. I was hooked from page 1 and the pace didn’t let up until the very end.
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What a premise too. Leona Deakin has written something so incredibly original. I was marvelling at its power to intrigue and surprise me. Dr Augusta Bloom is the main protagonist. She’s a psychologist but also an investigator, an unusual and perhaps unexpected combination. I thought she was a brilliant creation. Working alongside her colleague, ex-secret service agent Marcus Jameson, she is asked to look into the disappearance of first of all a friend of Marcus’s, and then more people who have disappeared in similar circumstances.
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Missing person storylines are nothing new but this is where the author has taken it a step further. She’s invented something that absolutely thrilled and fascinated me and made me seriously think about certain people! The people go missing when they receive a first birthday card with a dare contained within it, a dare to play a dangerous game.
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This is a story that flows perfectly. It’s so easy to read and yet it’s such a complex storyline. I’m really impressed with how well the author managed to make it oh so plausible, so realistic, so chilling and so exciting. I was also amazed by the twists which I really did not see coming – so clever and dark.
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I’m so pleased to see that Augusta will return in a second book in 2020. I don’t know if Lost can possibly top Gone but I’m really looking forward to finding out. In case you hadn’t cottoned on, I highly recommend this book. It’s nice to read something so innovative, an investigative story from a different viewpoint, not a police procedural. It completely messed with my mind, challenged my thinking and made me look at people in a completely different way. Just brilliant.

#bookreview #psychologicalfiction #psychologicalthriller #bookblogger #bookblog #shortbookandscribes

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Thank you so much @hqstories for sending me #TheMove by @felicity_everett #bookpost. It looks brilliant!

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Huge thanks to @ed.pr and @amazonpublishing for #TheLikelyResolutionsOfOliverClock by @janeriley_author #bookpost. Really looking forward to reading this for the #blogtour.

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I couldn't be happier to have this book in my possession. Thank you Milly Reid @quercusbooks for #InFiveYears by @rebecca_serle #bookpost. So excited!!

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New review: Magpie by @sophiedraperwriter
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Sophie Draper quite clearly has a very particular style, one which works well for her. Magpie has so many of the same features that her previous book, Cuckoo, had. First of all, the Derbyshire setting. I loved this as it’s a landscape I’m quite familiar with and the author portrays it beautifully. Magpie is set around a reservoir, one where a village had to be submerged to create it just like the real life Derwent Village which was submerged to make way for Ladybower reservoir. The mention of the church spire appearing at times of low water is really eerie.
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There’s also the sense of foreboding, the suspenseful nature not particularly of the story (although that has some suspense) but more the main character’s own narrative which is potentially unreliable. Claire is a wife and mother and seems to have lost sight of anything else she might ever have been. She’s married to Duncan, once her soulmate but now she’s planning her escape from him. Joe, their son, is now 18 but troubled and she wants to make sure Joe will come with her. She most definitely doesn’t want to leave him with Duncan.
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The story is told in before and after (after what, we do not know) and I must admit that even for me, who loves books that chop and change times like this, it did get rather confusing and maybe a bit overcomplicated. I’m not sure it was all strictly needed and I don’t think it would have lost anything if it had been simplified a bit.
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There were a couple of twists towards the end, not least the revelation of what the after scenes were following on from. It wasn’t a complete surprise as I had my suspicions but I hadn’t really allowed them to come to the surface so it was still rather unexpected. I thought it was a well executed development.
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Overall this is a book that has a lot going for it. The Derbyshire backdrop was fabulous and the unfolding of the story was effective. This is psychological fiction that gets to the heart of a family in crisis, what led them there and what happens next. Don’t go into it expecting heart-pounding drama. Go into it expecting a steady and dark tale and you won’t be disappointed.

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I'm doing mini reviews today of two non-fiction books. The Secret Life of Books by Professor Tom Mole is a beautiful book for any book lover. There are eight chapters looking at, for instance, ‘the things we do to books and the things they do to us’, or perhaps ‘How books shape institutions, societies and nations’. Letters to the Earth is a collection of 100 letters from various people, some well known and some not, writing to a planet in climate change crisis. It's a love letter to the earth and a plea for change.
The reviews are on my blog today - link in bio.

#nonfictionbooks #bookreview #bookblog #bookblogger #shortbookandscribes

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Thank you Jess Barratt @simonschusteruk for #MrNobody by @catsteadman #bookpost and especially for sending a second copy when the first one disappeared in the post and I got an empty jiffy bag 😱😦. It looks brilliant and I can't wait to read it.

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New review: The Naseby Horses by Dominic Brownlow
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The Naseby Horses is Dominic Brownlow’s debut novel and judging by what I have read he has quite a career ahead of him. His writing style is lyrical, ethereal and just beautiful. Having said that, I’m not sure I completely ‘got’ it. I think it’s a book that may benefit from a second reading as I don’t think I took everything in this first time. I’d recommend taking the time to read it slowly and to immerse yourself in every description, every conversation and every direction that it takes you in.
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The book begins on day three, that is the third day of Charlotte’s disappearance. Her brother, Simon, our protagonist, is returning home after a severe epileptic seizure around the time she disappeared. I thought this was a really clever idea on the author’s part, to throw us right into the middle like that. Simon is 17, clearly clever and suffering very badly with his condition. All the way through the story he’s seeing auras and things that may or may not be there. This could well be his epilepsy or it could be that he has a hint of the supernatural about him. He and Charlotte are twins so there is that extra element, that bond between them. He’s sure Charlotte must still be alive somewhere.
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He’s a fascinating character, with a strong interest in birds which appear over and over again in this book. He starts to discover folklore surrounding the Fenland village where he lives and the possibility of a curse which could, if you believe it, be responsible for Charlotte’s disappearance. It’s such an intriguing premise for a story and although I trusted Simon I also saw that his illness could make him unreliable. He can’t be sure if what he saw or heard that night was real or not.
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Brownlow has a talent for sumptuous and evocative descriptions. I really marvelled in his scene-setting and the way he brought the Fens to life. I didn’t find to be the easiest of reads, it’s quite intense and I think there’s a lot lurking under the surface that perhaps that second read would draw out, but I also found it to be unique, clever and moving. A triumphant debut!

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