Treat yourself this summer …You’ve had Cosy Christmas Treats, now try our summer selection! This collection of sunny short stories is perfect reading whether you’re living it up at the beach, sunning yourself in the garden or sheltering indoors from…
What a brilliant question! There are so many amazing books out there that it’s incredibly hard to answer but I think I might go with The Bronze Horseman trilogy by Paullina Simons – can I have a trilogy if they’re…
Interspersed with the more recent chapters were chapters set in 1950s Paris and I so enjoyed them. Isla’s mother May had gone to Paris to work as an au pair and to improve her French. Fanny Blake makes Paris sound…
View original post 5,133 more words Do you spend more time thinking about which book to pack for your vacation than packing the clothes? (oh…just me?) Reading Ladies Image Source: Canva I was delighted to be invited by Carol from…
Related Aliya Ali-Afzal lives in London and is studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is an Alum of the Curtis Brown Creative Novel writing course, and her writing has been longlisted for…
The Bloody Chamber is probably one of my favourite short story collections. From author Angela Carter, these gothic retellings are as intoxicating and they are repulsive, but I guarantee you’ll be hooked. Based on fairytales including Beauty and the Beast,…
Published by Mantle Annie Stanley is a little bit lost. She’s quit her job and spends her days lolling about on the sofa. She’s split with her boyfriend Rob and really doesn’t like her dad’s new partner, Bev, who she…
3 – I don’t know why he’s Matthew Dicks in America but Matthew Green here (must Google) Here’s my own little list to sum up my thoughts on the book: From the back of the book Brimming with Dan’s hilarious…
There’s only one thing standing in her way: Tom, the queen’s trusted apothecary, who makes the perfect silent spy… Just like Mathilde, the medieval hall she inherits conceals secrets, and she quickly makes a haunting discovery. Can she unravel the…
1. I was born in Dorset in 1945. Naturally I don’t remember anything about the war, but I do remember rationing and seeing my first ever banana. Twenty years on, I still love them. 9. Peter was the reason I…
