THE BOOK Rosemary has lived in Brixton all her life, but everything she knows is changing. Only the local lido, where she swims every day, remains a constant reminder of the past and her beloved husband George. Kate has just moved and feels adrift in a city that is too big for her. She’s on… Continue reading Bookish Corner Read of the Month – April – ‘The Lido’ by Libby Page
I started off the month not feeling like a very good blogger – I hadn’t posted any reviews, I hadn’t written any reviews, I hadn’t read any other of my blogger friends reviews, I hadn’t shared any of those reviews either – but by mid-April I got my mojo back. Although I still suck at… Continue reading My Bookish Month – April
THE BOOK Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman’s body is found… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘Keeper’ by Johana Gustawsson – Book Review
THE BOOK Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the… Continue reading Book Review – ‘The Twelve-Mile Straight’ by Eleanor Henderson
THE BOOK A white teenage girl clashes with her new black stepmother in this debut reading group thriller – a suburban tragedy for our times Lola doesn’t particularly want a new stepmother. Especially not one who has come out of nowhere and only been with her dad for three months. And – she’s not racist… Continue reading Book Review – ‘Darling’ by Rachel Edwards
I’ve decided to do a joint review for two of the books that I’ve received with My Chronicle Book Box, the May box is due to arrive soon and there are still a couple of days to order yours here’s a handy link – I strongly recommend you do! And you can get a discount with my… Continue reading Book Reviews – ‘The Devil’s Claw’ by Lara Dearman and ‘Did You See Melody?’ by Sophie Hannah
THE BOOK When a dead man is lifted from the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour just before Christmas, Detective Lena Stigersand’s stressful life suddenly becomes even more complicated. Not only is she dealing with a cancer scare, a stalker and an untrustworthy boyfriend, but it seems both a politician and Norway’s security services might be… Continue reading Blog Tour – Book Review – ‘The Ice Swimmer’ by Kjell Ola Dahl
