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#blogtour – Child Taken by Darren Young @darrenyoungbook @RedDoorBooks #bookreview #suspense

Posted on 11th May 2017 By Nicola

I’m so pleased to be on the blog tour for Child Taken by Darren Young, published by the brilliant Red Door Publishing. My review is […]

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#blogtour – The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie @theyarnyard @Unbound_Digital #bookreview

Posted on 9th May 2017 By Nicola

I’m absolutely delighted to be on the blog tour for this book today. First of all I just have to say that I’m kind of […]

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#blogtour – The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell @danwaddell @brookcottagebks #bookreview #giveaway

Posted on 1st May 2017 By Nicola

I love genealogical mysteries and I must confess to having had this book for quite some time but you know, too many books, not enough […]

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#blogtour – Dead Woman Walking by Sharon Bolton #bookreview @AuthorSJBolton @TransworldBooks @AlisonBarrow

Posted on 29th April 2017 By Nicola

I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be on this blog tour. Daisy in Chains was my top read of last year and […]

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#ThrowbackThursday – The Unseen by Katherine Webb @KWebbAuthor @OrionBooks

Posted on 27th April 2017 By Nicola

Inspired by Jill’s Book Cafe, I decided to have a go at Throwback Thursday which is a weekly meme hosted by Renee at It’s Book Talk. […]

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#blogtour – We All Begin as Strangers by Harriet Cummings @HarrietWriter @orionbooks #bookreview

Posted on 27th April 2017 By Nicola

I’m delighted to be on the blog tour for We All Begin as Strangers by Harriet Cummings. It’s the ideal read for fans of The Trouble […]

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#blogtour – The Beachside Flower Stall by Karen Clarke @karenclarke123 @bookouture #bookreview

Posted on 19th April 2017 By Nicola

I really am absolutely over the blooming moon to be on this tour today and sharing my review of this fantastic book with you. I […]

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#blogtour – My Mourning Year by Andrew Marshall @andrewgmarshall @RedDoorBooks #bookreview

Posted on 17th April 2017 By Nicola

I’m on the blog tour today for this wonderful memoir. In 1997 Andrew Marshall’s partner, and the only person to whom he had ever truly […]

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#bookreview – The Child by Fiona Barton @figbarton @TransworldBooks @newbooksmag #suspense

Posted on 15th April 2017 By Nicola

I’m late to the party with Fiona Barton’s first book, The Widow. In fact, I’m still stuck in traffic on the way there. But there […]

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#bookreview – Death of a Cuckoo by Wendy Percival @wendy_percival @BrookCottagebks @SilverWoodBooks #extract

Posted on 12th April 2017 By Nicola

I’m so pleased to be taking part in a book blitz today for Death of a Cuckoo, which is an Esme Quentin novella by Wendy […]

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