I’m delighted to be joined by AE Chandler today, author of Knights of the Roundish Table. Knights of the Roundish Table is published today which just happens to be the anniversary of the Batt…

This week’s topic: Ten Film Quotations Photo by ClickerHappy on Pexels.com This week’s topic was going to be a non-bookish freebie but has been changed to ‘ten books you wish you …

Author : Zoë RankinTitle : The Vanishing PlacePages : 380Publisher : Viper Books / Serpent’s TailPublication date : 2nd October, 2025Source : Netgalley One girl escaped. But the forest took a…

On my blog today, I’m taking part in the blog tour for the tenth anniversary edition of Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson, with thanks to Anne Cater from Random Things Tours for inviting me to tak…

My enormous thanks to lovely Georgia Hill for ensuring I received a copy of her latest book, Magpie, and to Tara Lyons for sending it to me. It’s my pleasure to share my review of Magpie today. You…

Synopsis:"Murder and mystery lurk in the hills and on the shores of Devon and Cornwall in Agatha Christie’s finest countryside stories. Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie’s love of the West Country never left her and many of her finest stories are set on the moors and shores of Devon and Cornwall. This collection celebrates some of her finest countryside stories featuring a cast of Christie’s most iconic characters: Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford and Parker Pyne. 

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.

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In deciding what to call this post I went for a more cultured approach to my usual, and opted to quote the first line of John Keats poem ‘To Autumn’. It’s a poem that captures the…

the setup… I learned in the prequel how important family is to Private Investigator Margo Angelhart but in the ensuing years, a lot has changed. She’s estranged from the family private investigation practice she helped create and her beloved father is in prison. Margo is still solo but her practice is doing well enough that she’s no longer bartending. She’s managing two cases, one where she’s assisting an abused wife disappear with her two young children and another where the client suspects her husband of cheating. When the second one intersects with one of her family’s cases, Margo has to find common ground and work with and accept help from Angelhart Investigations…especially when things get dangerous.

Title: The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association Author: Caitlin Rozakis Genre: Cozy Fantasy, Magic, Humor First published: May 27th 2025 Publisher: Tanto Audio Finished reading: Octob…

I have come to really enjoy this police procedural series set mainly in the Stoke-On-Trent area of Staffordshire. The protagonist, Kate Young is a very complex character. Recently widowed, she stil…

I’ve been meaning to read The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri since it came out, but life has always intervened. Today, however, I am delighted to share my review as The Beekeeper of Aleppo …

The virgin rainforest seems a paradise to Englishman Simon Corbett. A last chance to salvage his career. A final refuge from a terrible secret.But the jungle is no Eden. It hides secrets of its own. It does not forgive.As Simon is drawn deeper into its haunted shadows, he learns to his horror that the past […]

Source: Review copyPublication: 25 September 2025 fromPP: 656ISBN-13: 978-1035074624 My thanks to Pan MacMillan for a review copyIn Cornwall, a man suffers a violent death – and the killer may lurk within the community . . . Amid the beauty of Cornwall’s coastline, the death of a local man shatters the peace with its violence. The body of Michael Lobb is discovered in his family’s tin and pewter workshop, and Detective Inspector Beatrice Hannaford is brought in to investigate.

I'm delighted to be joined by Michael Wendroff today, author of What Goes Around. What Goes Around was published by Head of Zeus in October 2024 and available now in all formats: full details below. Over to Michael to tell us more. Tell me THREE things about your latest book It was prompted by what my mother said to me the second I was born (or so I’m told!).

Welcome to It’s Monday! What are you Reading? It’s hosted by Kathryn from Book Date, this is a weekly event to share what we’ve read in the past week and what we hope to read, plus whatever else comes to mind.

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Only I Can Save Them by Imogen Matthews. I enjoy historical fiction based on real people and once again, I learned about another unsung hero. Scroll down for my thoughts.