We Are Called to Rise Book Review
8.4Raw, Emotive, Compelling In a similar fashion to books such as Girl, Woman, Other and There…
Little Wing by Freya North #bookreview @freya_north @welbeckpublish #LittleWingBook
There are also relationships with the land explored in the book and having visited Harris, I…
Reshma Ruia – Q&A
I came to writing quite late; having raised a family first so I think fame for…
ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Little Wing by Freya North
1986. Dougie Munro, searching for adventure, leaves the Isle of Harris – the island of his birth…
Diana Rosie – Q&A
1. Tell us a little about Pippo & Clara. Impossible question! If I had to choose,…
The Last Bathing Beauty by Amy Sue Nathan #bookreview @AmySueNathan #historicalfiction #LakeUnionPublishing
Everything seemed possible in the summer of 1951. Back then Betty Stern was an eighteen-year-old knockout…
ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Queen Elizabeth II: The Oral History by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober
Although originally published in 2002, the book has been brought fully up to date in this…
My Year in Books 2021.
In no particular order, my favourite 4 are: I haven’t reviewed this one, but it is…
A Taste for Poison: Eleven deadly substances and the killers who used them by Neil Bradbury – review
As I’ve already mentioned, each poison has it’s own dedicated sections. There are comparisons with other…
Home Stretch by Graham Norton #bookreview @coronetbooks @hodderbooks
The lives of the families are shattered and the rifts between them are felt throughout the…
ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
Although this is essentially a mystery tale, it’s also a sad and moving consideration of the…
C E Rose – Q&A
Sometimes I wish I was a plan plan plan writer but I’m very much the latter….
The Ends of the Earth – Abbie Greaves | #Book Review #TheEndsofTheEarth
Only with the help of others will she finally be able to answer the question: where…
ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Fields of Grace by Wendy Waters
Fields of Grace is an expansive read taking in London in the 1930s and Sydney in…
A Spring Surprise for the Cornish Midwife by Jo Bartlett #bookreview @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources @J_B_Writer
I’ve been fancying this series for a while but couldn’t quite fit any in up till…
Robert Lloyd – Q&A
It’s a London-based historical thriller set in 1678, so in the later part of Charles II’s…
ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning-Wroe
Happy New Year! My first review of 2022 is for the last book I read in…
Balancing the Books – December 2021
Reading wasn’t as productive. I had little time and not that much desire to read so…