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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan

Posted on 27th September 2023 By Nicola

So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan is published by Faber & Faber and is available now in hardcover, eBook and audiobook. My thanks […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReviews – Small Things Like These and Foster by Claire Keegan

Posted on 26th October 2022 By Nicola

Today I’m sharing my thoughts about Small Things Like These and Foster, both by Claire Keegan and published by Faber & Faber. Both are short […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from The Midnight House by Amanda Geard

Posted on 23rd May 2022 By Nicola

A couple of weeks ago I posted my review of this gorgeous book. Today I’m really pleased to be sharing an extract from the beginning […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – The Midnight House by Amanda Geard

Posted on 4th May 2022 By Nicola

The Midnight House by Amanda Geard will be published by Headline Review on 12th May in hardcover, eBook and audiobook. My thanks to Emily Patience […]

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The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne @john_boyne @TransworldBooks @DoubledayUK

Posted on 8th February 2017 By Nicola

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he […]

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Ad/PR product. New review: The Babysitter by Emma Ad/PR product. New review: The Babysitter by Emma Curtis. To be published by #CorvusBooks on 12th October.
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Three women. Three secrets. The women are Claudia, Anna and Sara and yes, I can confirm that they have a large number of secrets.
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As the book begins, Claudia is released from prison after admitting the manslaughter of her baby daughter, Tilly, ten years earlier. But Claudia only confessed so she would be released and be able to try and find out what really happened. Anna is the woman who should have been babysitting Tilly that fateful day, but who let Claudia and her husband, Joe, down. Sara is Joe’s new wife and they have a baby together and are living in the house where Claudia used to live with her family.
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Claudia is determined to get to the bottom of Tilly’s disappearance and this makes her quite volatile and vulnerable. She was my favourite character and I was always pleased when the focus switched back to her, probably because she was in the process of uncovering and discovering and I enjoy that in a novel. I did sometimes get Sara and Anna a bit muddled up and found them quite similar whereas Claudia’s character really stood out.
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I found The Babysitter to be a story that gripped me and kept me reading, wanting to know the truth of what happened to Tilly and who made it happen. It’s fast-paced and twisty with a plot that I found compelling. Claudia literally has nothing to lose in leaving no stone unturned whereas Anna and Sara have much to hide. I didn’t know who to believe or trust and that’s exactly what I want in a psychological thriller.
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Thank you to the publishers for the review copy of the book.
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September Reads 📚 It's 1st October, three-quart September Reads
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It's 1st October, three-quarters of the year has gone and we're heading towards Halloween 🎃, fireworks 🎆 and Christmas ⛄. But first, here's what I read in September. Nine full-length books and two short stories and a nice mix of genres.
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Stack for a Cause 💜 A hastily put together purp Stack for a Cause
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A hastily put together purple stack as September has been World Alzheimer's Awareness month. I saw on @jojosovertherainbowblog's account that @theromanticbibliotheca is pledging to donate $100 plus $1 for every purple bookstack or book review for a book with a purple spine or cover and I wanted to join in for such a worthwhile cause.
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I spent a while trying to decide whether covers were pink or purple but I managed to find these few.
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New review: A Saint in Swindon by Alice Jolly. Pub New review: A Saint in Swindon by Alice Jolly. Published by @fairlightbooks and out now. This is the second of the books I chose to read for Small Books September.
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What a little gem A Saint in Swindon is. I’m not sure at what point a short story becomes a novella but in only 78 pages of text Alice Jolly has created a whole world that I was able to lose myself in.
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A stranger arrives in Swindon and takes up residence in the narrator’s B&B. He’s an enigma, never coming out of his room, taking all his meals in there and simply spending his days reading. The dream! The mystery man devours book after book and ignites everybody’s imagination. Who is he? Why is he reading so much? Why does nobody ever see him? Soon, people are treating him as a kind of saviour.
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The story is set in the very near future in 2030 but it’s an almost unrecognisable world as the effects of climate change wreak havoc on everyday life. The reader is treated to myriad literary references as the community becomes fixated on the stranger and what he is reading. I loved the parallels between the fiction and the reality for the characters and how the plots of the books seemed to mirror what was happening in their lives.
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Not only is this book engaging but it has so many layers to it and I think there’s a lot more to be considered within it than there at first seems. Taking it at face value it’s a wonderful tale of the power of books in a changing landscape, but underneath there is so much more and this would be an amazing book group choice.
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I really enjoyed A Saint in Swindon. It’s a fabulous little book, with fascinating characters and a clever plot.
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Ad/PR product. New review: Cat Society by Ray Sadr Ad/PR product. New review: Cat Society by Ray Sadri. Published by The Book Guild and out today! 
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Imagine a world in which hoomans are extinct and everything is run by cats. Cat Society follows a group of pawliticians who are, by and large, much the same as their human counterparts.
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Douglas Schnitty is a backbencher whose agenda is focused on finding homes for the countless cats who have to sleep by the bins. Finding them a cabin in one of the trees is paramount but to do so he’ll have to resort to some rather dirty tactics.
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Cat Society is a lively and humorous story written by somebody who knows what he’s talking about. Issues such as homelessness, immigration and the public purse are covered and it’s all too familiar as the cats are not, on the whole, all that trustworthy.
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Cat lovers will enjoy this book and I think those that understand the machinations of the British political system will really get so much more out of this book. That isn’t me and so I read it as more of a fun parody rather than the political satire that I think it really is. It’s a combination of razor-sharp observations and zany feline escapades.
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Thank you to the author and publishers for the review copy of the book.
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Ad/PR product. New review: So Late in the Day by C Ad/PR product. New review: So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan. Published by @faberbooks and out now.
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Cathal leaves his work in a Dublin office for a long weekend at his home in a more rural area. When he gets there he considers a woman called Sabine and over the course of the evening he thinks about the life he could have had with her. The story itself is only 47 pages long and yet there is so much packed into it. I started off thinking Cathal was one kind of person and then revised my opinion of him as the story progressed. The fact that it was originally published in France as Misogynie might give some indication of Cathal’s nature.
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The story is beautifully written and impeccably executed and the sense of place is strong. Keegan is economical with her words but still manages to expose Cathal and convey the reason for the title and the relevance of this particular day. So Late in the Day is the third Claire Keegan book I have read, each one short but perfectly formed. I enjoyed it very much.
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Thank you to the publishers for the review copy of the book.
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Two for Tuesday 🔹 This week I've chosen two sma Two for Tuesday
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This week I've chosen two small books for #SmallBooksSeptember. I read #SoLateInTheDay the other day and hope to read #ASaintInSwindon before the end of the month 
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Ad/PR product. New review: Connective Tissue by El Ad/PR product. New review: Connective Tissue by Eleanor Thom. Published by @taprootpress and out now.
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Connective Tissue is a dual-timeline story set in Scotland in 2010 and Berlin in the 1930s. Helena is an air-traffic controller pregnant with her first baby, forced into a long hospital stay due to complications. When her baby is born he suffers from a kind of paralysis which has no obvious explanation. Looking back through her family roots, Helena starts to consider whether it might be a genetic condition and embarks on a journey to find out more about Dora, the grandmother she didn’t know very well. Dora was a German Jew, a single mother unable to look after her daughter full-time in a country where her safety, and that of her family, was threatened more and more by the day.
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The title of this book is clever, referring both to a medical condition that both Helena and Dora have, and to the connective tissue that binds them together through the generations of their family. There’s also a theme of trees running throughout the book which felt like a metaphor for the family tree. Eleanor Thom’s writing is contemplative and powerful, and knowing that she is in effect writing about her own family in fictionalised form makes this story even stronger and even more compelling. I didn’t find it to be a quick read but it’s a worthwhile one.
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Connective Tissue is a haunting and moving story of motherhood and migration, and the invisible threads that link us to the past and made us who we are.
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Thank you to the publishers for the review copy of the book.
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Book Haul 📚 Earlier this week I went a bit bers Book Haul
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Earlier this week I went a bit berserk and ordered all of these gorgeous books. I saw @always_need_more_books' review of #SexEd the other day and it sounds so funny and naughty. 🌶️
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The other books are all historical fiction. I read the eBook of #ATimeToChange a few years ago and loved the time-travel/time-slip storyline. When I heard there was a second Mandeville book, #TheMandevilleSecret, I had to get it and couldn't really not buy a copy of the first book too to reread, could I? 😉
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All three of these are published by @stormbooks_co who are publishing a lot of books that really appeal to me.
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#TheLostDiary and #TheMidwifeOfAuschwitz are both published by @bookouture who also publish a lot of books I love the sound of. The former is a dual-timeline story set around a wartime secret and a long-lost diary. The latter is an emotional story of a woman's bravery in WWII. Both sound very much like my kind of read.
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New review: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us by @fionaco New review: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us by @fionacollinsauthor.
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A few years ago I read You, Me and the Movies by Fiona Collins and I was simply blown away by it. In fact, it’s one of my favourite books ever. One of the tropes I most enjoy is forbidden love and that book had it and so does Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us, Collins’ latest book.
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The book begins in spring 1986 when Rachel is engaged to a budding author, Jonny. The relationship offers her the stability she badly needs after a volatile childhood but when she meets Gabe, an American artist, she finds herself on rocky ground as she knows the attraction between them is dangerous to all that she considers important. Over the course of four decades the pair meet four times in each of the four seasons, Rachel clinging to her relationship with Jonny but each time unable to deny the strength of her feelings for Gabe.
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This book is absolutely beautifully written and I savoured every word. Each period of time is so evocative, particularly the 1980s which felt so recognisable. The characterisations are perfect, from the main players down to the bit-part characters, such as the people from the village where Rachel spends her life. The settings are so vivid and I was carried along, thoroughly immersed in the story which is told completely from Rachel’s viewpoint. The reader is torn, just as Rachel is, between her good life with Jonny and what may just be the love of a lifetime with Gabe, and throughout the story I didn’t know how it could all be resolved.
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There’s a gorgeous thread running through the book of the four seasons and all that they bring with them, each one described in such a vibrant way. I travelled through each season and each decade with the characters I grew to love, witnessing the pull of a forbidden passion.
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us is a sweeping and utterly compelling book. I smiled and laughed, and I felt a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. Fiona Collins really gets to the heart of emotions and the tangle of day to day life. I thought it was absolutely wonderful in every way.
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Ad/PR product. New review: Geneva by Richard Armit Ad/PR product. New review: Geneva by Richard Armitage. To be published on 12th October by @faberbooks.
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For his debut novel Richard Armitage takes as his inspiration Sarah Gilbert, the scientist who co-developed one of the first covid vaccines available for use in the UK. His creation is Sarah Collier, a Nobel prize-winner, who is showing early signs of the Alzheimer’s that is already advanced in her father. Sarah is asked to endorse a technological advancement that could save lives, maybe even her own and so she travels to the conference at the Schiller Institute in Geneva with her husband, Daniel.
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The story is told from the points of view of Sarah and Daniel. Sarah is becoming increasingly confused and Daniel is her rock. What would she do without him? There are also blog posts from a blogger called Terri Landau who specialises in exposing the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.
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Geneva is a fairly fast-paced intelligent thriller with a fascinatingly unreliable narrator in Sarah. Her story is distressing as she struggles with focus and knowing what is real. What’s really interesting in this book is that no character is what they seem and it kept me guessing all the way through. Armitage pulls off some rather clever plot twists!
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I enjoyed Geneva. I felt it had a cinematic feel to it (no surprise given the writer’s background) and I suspect it will translate very well to the screen should that happen. Sarah’s circumstances are told sympathetically, the villains are dastardly and the setting is icy and frosty which is perfect for a suspense-filled novel like this. An accomplished and well-written literary thriller debut.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof copy of the book.
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Ad/PR product. New review: The Stargazers by Harri Ad/PR product. New review: The Stargazers by Harriet Evans. Published by @headlinebooks tomorrow!
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The Stargazers is a sweeping epic of a story with an uncomfortable and disturbing dark thread of cruelty that, for me, felt a bit different from Harriet Evans’ previous works. Set mainly in two very distinctive timelines, the 1950s and the 1970s, with added sections from the 1920s and 2020, this is a story of family and whether home is a place or a person.
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Sarah is the main character. In the 1970s she’s moved into a new house with her husband, Daniel. It’s a chance to put her terrible childhood at Fane Hall behind her. Her mother, Iris, is a nasty and unkind person, with no redeeming features, who treated Sarah and her sister Victoria, abysmally. With Daniel and her beloved cello, Sarah hopes to move on into a brighter future. Fane Hall is always there in the background though, a crumbling stately hall which, like many after the wars, fell into disrepair. The 1950s sections give us an insight into Sarah’s childhood spent partly at Fane and it’s impossible to feel anything but horror at her upbringing.
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I had some mixed feelings about this book. I felt at times that it didn’t fully reel me in and despite everything the characters go through I didn’t really take to any of them and feel the empathy and care for them I might have expected to feel, and yet at other times I was so heavily invested that I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the page. It’s absolutely beautifully written and I found myself thinking about it when I wasn’t reading it and I think it’s a book that will stay with me. It’s an all-encompassing sort of read. I don’t know if I was being a bit dense but there are three moments that caused an eye-widening reaction where I was really surprised by a twist in the tale and Evans did an amazing job at dropping them in at just the right time.
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The Stargazers is heart-wrenching and shocking, a family story with a dark edge, a mesmerising but broken setting in Fane Hall, and a childhood that has consequences that will last the whole of Sarah’s life. A fascinating, rich and unforgettable read in many ways.
Characters in Titles 📚 This was such an easy ch Characters in Titles
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This was such an easy challenge for me. I could have gone on and on finding books with characters in the title. I'm not sure if there are just a lot of this type of title (they are appealing, after all) or if it's just that I like this kind of character driven book.
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I've only read one of them so far (Grace Wheeler) but am really excited about the rest.
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People on Spines ✨ I thought I'd have a go at th People on Spines
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I thought I'd have a go at this challenge today. It was trickier than I expected to find real people on spines and not ones that have been drawn.
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Ad/PR product. New review: The Book of Beginnings Ad/PR product. New review: The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page. To be published by Harper Collins on 28th Sept.
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Sometimes a book comes along that has all the elements I enjoy in a book and The Book of Beginnings is one of those books. I enjoyed Sally Page’s debut, The Keeper of Stories, but I have to say that I ADORED The Book of Beginnings.
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The opportunity to run her uncle’s stationery shop in London comes at just the right time for Jo Sorsby as she needs to get away from the memories of a past relationship. Hopefully life amongst the pens, paper, envelopes and bulldog clips will help her heart to mend. She meets new friends, vicar Ruth who is also running away, and notebook purchaser Malcolm, a man with a project but who doesn’t know what direction to take. Then there’s Eric, a fellow shop owner and gentle giant. Each of the characters brings so much to the story and to Jo’s life.
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One of the first things that struck me about this book is that it brought back my own magical memories of a childhood loving all things stationery. I used to love coming back from a shopping trip with new pens, rubbers, rolls of thick paper or chunky exercise books, just waiting to embark on a new project (or in my case probably random doodles and jottings). The author’s own pleasure in stationery shines through on every page.
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This is a story primarily of the healing power of friendship and how age is no barrier to that. Jo’s new friends range in age and I loved the way that each character brought something new and helped to build the bonds between them. Another element that makes a book special to me is a love story and there is one here, along with bursts of humour that made me laugh out loud. As if this wasn’t enough, Sally Page manages to pop in some interesting historical figures and some intriguing back stories for Ruth and Malcolm, and all this in 400 pages. This is a book crammed with delights and every page is an absolute joy to read. The Book of Beginnings is uplifting, thoughtful and enchanting and will be one of my favourites of this year.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof and to the author for one of her gorgeous @ploomspens fountain pens.
Two for Tuesday 🔸 Today I've chosen two orange Two for Tuesday
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Today I've chosen two orange covered books from my TBR pile.
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#TalkingAtNight by @clairedaverley is out now. I've wanted to read it since I first heard about it. I've heard it described as a tragic love story which is right up my street.
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#TheBabysitter by @emmacurtisauthor is out next month and is 'a thrilling twisty psychological thriller about motherhood and obsession'. Bring it on!
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New review: The Ragged Valley by Joanne Clague. Pu New review: The Ragged Valley by Joanne Clague. Published by Canelo and out now.
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As a born and bred Sheffielder, the Great Flood of 1864 is something I’ve heard of but, as the author mentions in her note at the back of this book, despite the fact that it killed over 240 people and flattened whole areas, it isn’t all that well known a part of history. The Ragged Valley really brought it to life for me, the sound of the seven hundred million gallons of water thundering through the countryside into the town below sounding all too real in my head.
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The book focuses on three main characters: Silas, a young man who has just arrived in Sheffield looking for a new life working in the steelworks; Harriet, a young woman who lives with her aunt and uncle providing unpaid help around the house and with their children; and John Gunson, the engineer who supervised construction of the dam that burst and who it seems is destined to be the scapegoat of the disaster. The story brings the three characters together gradually, and in Silas and Harriet’s case, spectacularly.
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I enjoyed The Ragged Valley very much. It gave me a sense of the horror of the flood when so many people were either washed away or lost loved ones, and many lost everything they owned. It must have been a horrific and heartbreaking time for all concerned and it was interesting to see how the aftermath was dealt with and the resilience of folk who had no choice but to just carry on as best they could. Joanne Clague’s writing is engaging and empathetic and I very much liked the plot and characters she created. I had a particular soft spot for impetuous and affable Silas and his collie dog, Shandy.
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I’m looking forward to reading book two of The Sheffield Sagas trilogy next. Those who love historical and saga fiction will find much to enjoy in The Ragged Valley.
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Harper Collins Sale Haul 📚 A few weeks ago Harp Harper Collins Sale Haul
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A few weeks ago Harper Collins had a sale with an irresistible 40% off all their books, including their many imprints.
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As you can imagine, it wasn't exactly difficult to find books I wanted to buy but I managed to narrow it down to these five.
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I've read all of these authors before apart from Cate Green who is a debut author, and they all sound like gorgeous stories and right up my alley.
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August Reads 📚 I'm not entirely sure where the August Reads
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I'm not entirely sure where the month's gone to but I have at least had a good month's reading. 11 this time (I was determined to get it over my standard 10!).
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There's a nice mixture of thrillers, historical and contemporary fiction here, with some favourite authors and some new ones too.
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Have you read any of these books? What was your favourite August read?

(Nanny Wanted is face forward because the spine is blank)
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Ad/PR product. New review: Three Card Murder by J. Ad/PR product. New review: Three Card Murder by J.L. Blackhurst. Published by HQ tomorrow.
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I love the premise of Three Card Murder. Half-sisters: Tess who is a police officer and Sarah who is a con artist, their sibling link always destined to tie them together whilst their career choices pull them apart.
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Tess is acting DI on her first murder case. It’s a puzzling locked room murder and who better to help her solve it than a woman who makes illusions look easy. There’s so much more to the cases (for one murder soon turns into more) and to the links between the two women than there at first seems.
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I thought this was an inspired premise, firstly in making the protagonists sisters and then for making them polar opposites in terms of life choices. I particularly liked how each approached and solved mysteries, just on different sides of the law. Tess and Sarah are brilliant characters, well-drawn, feisty and brave risk-takers. I really loved the canny tricks in this book, the small cons as well as the (almost) impossible murders. This is such a clever and unique story.
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Take a female police detective, add in a few murders and then stir in a hefty dose of Hustle and that’s what you have with Three Card Murder. I thought it was cunning and smart and I think there’s scope for a follow up or a series featuring Tess and Sarah.
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Thank you to the publishers for the proof copy of the book.
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