Like many people, I'm a huge fan of Jane Austen's books and it seems we can't get enough of her characters given how many times they have been adapted for the screen and how many spin-off books there are featuring them. I've been to see the fantastic Austentatious a few times at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This is a hilarious show where the cast improvise a play in the style of Austen using a suggestion from the audience.

What am I currently reading? I'm reading Sarah Morgan's All Together for Christmas and loving meeting all the members of the Balfour family as they return home for a perfect family Christmas. I'm still listening to By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult and really enjoying that. I managed to renew the loan so I'll have a bit longer to listen to it.

I'm delighted to be taking part in the book tour for Emma Christie's Watch Your Back today. This is a particularly special book tour since, as well as telling you what readers thought about the book, it's also raising awareness of the work of The Brain Tumour Charity. Having lost two friends to this illness, I know just how important the work of the charity is.

On a blustery, wintry day, do you enjoy books with snowy settings?

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…

This week's topic: Books Set in Snowy Places This week's Top Ten Tuesday is Books Set in Snowy Places. We rarely get snow here in Edinburgh, especially where I live by the sea. I love snow (probably because we don't get any!) and always live in hope that we will get another 'Beast from the East' when we got a significant snowfall that stayed on the ground for quite a while.

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Synopsis: “Pop legend Lulu looks back over her astonishing life with fresh eyes, reflecting on all she has learnt. From the tenements of Glasgow to the Royal Albert Hall and the glittering li…

Bookstagram Tour – The Cheated Wife by Alison Irving 8th – 14th December We’re excited to be partnering with Bloodhound Books to spotlight The Cheated Wife by Alison Irving — a tense, twist-filled …

I'm delighted to be joined by Verity Bright today, author of Murder on a Frosty Night. Murder on a Frosty Night is published today by Bookouture and available now in: full details below. Over to Verity to tell us more. Tell me THREE things about your festive book: 1. On the surface it is a murder mystery set in England in the 1920s.

Having spectacularly failed to get beyond page 30 of my U3A Reading Group book in November, I’m delighted actually to have read this month’s choice, Miss Austen by Gill Hornby, which we will be dis…

Today I am sharing my long overdue review of King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby. I have had the audiobook of this on my to be listened to list since it was released, and finally dived in a few weeks ago. …

Happy Monday! I’m back with another reshare of one of my previous reviews of a fabulous Jack Jordan thriller Night By Night which I read over 6 years ago!!

📚 On Silver Hill by Paula Hillman Bookstagram Tour: 13th – 22nd DecemberGenre: Mystery | Crime | Thriller 🌟 We’re thrilled to be partnering with Paula Hillman for this gripping December Bookstagram…

Judy Leigh is a firm favourite of mine, whether she’s writing under her own name or as her mystical alter ego, Elena Collins. I always try to take part in her blog tours. Alas, I’m not always able …

A LONE OUTLAW, HAUNTED BY HER PAST, WITH ALL THE MULTIVERSE AGAINST HER…   Sometimes the fate of entire worlds can be decided by a woman with nothing to lose, and the smartest gun in the multi…

About the Book Hermine Braunsteiner was the first person to be extradited from the Unites States for Nazi war crimes. Hermine was one of a few thousand women to work as a female concentration camp …