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This week's topic: Ten Book Group Reads This week we have a free choice of topics and I thought I'd share ten books I've read for my book group with you. I have a very exclusive book group - there's just me and three of my friends! We have a book group probably every 6-8 weeks and it's a girls' night in.

Do you give books as gifts? If you have book-loving friends or family on your gift-giving list this year, I have some recommendations for you from my 2025 reading!

“Only the bravest dare to ride the highest roller coaster in the world, Hysteria… You’re a thrill seeker who loves an adrenaline rush. You’re offered the chance to ride a roller coaster. The …

My pick of new paperback and hardback fiction sourced from The Bookseller.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own…

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…

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Having thoroughly enjoyed Jo Middleton’s Happy BLOODY Christmas (reviewed here), I was delighted when a copy of her latest book Not Another BLOODY Christmas arrived in surprise book mail. My huge t…

“The island’s darkest secrets rise once more…”Lidingö Mysteries  #2 This novel is the second in a crime series set on Lidingö, an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, northeast of…

Today I am sharing my long overdue review of The Children of Eve, the latest book in the Charlie Parker series from John Connolly. It’s long overdue because I was long overdue in reading, or …

🎉🎉🎉 Happy Publication Day to Robert Whanslaw 🎉🎉🎉 Dark Orchid Affair out today! I’m helping kick off the blog tour with an extract and a giveaway for you – what more could you want?…

📚 Bookstagram Tour – Watch Your Back by Emma Christie Tour Dates: 1st – 14th DecemberGenre: Psychological Thriller | Thriller | Scottish CrimePage Count: 272Publisher: Mountain Leopard PressInstagr…

It was my pleasure to meet Joy at an RNA event in York, a few years ago. We immediately hit it off, so I was delighted to take part in the blog tour for her RNA award-winning title, Whatever it Tak…

Synopsis: “From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to present day. It is 1486 and Ve…

🎭 Bookstagram Tour Announcement All Our Yesterdays by Guy Hale 📅 1st – 7th December We’re thrilled to be teaming up once again with The Bullington Press and author Guy Hale for the All Our Yesterda…

I'm delighted to be joined by Clare Chase today, author of Mystery at Mistletoe Place. Mystery at Mistletoe Place is published today by Bookouture and available now in: full details below. Happy publication day Clare! Over to you to tell us more. Tell me THREE things about your festive book Like all my murder mysteries, it’s full of atmospheric locations! It features a historic boatyard full of beautiful crafts being renovated over winter, and a lovely old manor house, surrounded by snow-covered trees and topiary.

I do love a book challenge, so I’ve joined in with this one after spotting it on Bluesky. Day 30 – The last book you read Dear Olly by Michael Morpurgo was the last book I finished. It…

Today I’m sharing my review of New Beginnings For Christmas by Sally Page which I recently listened to as an audiobook. It seems appropriate to be reviewing this book at the very beginning of…