Pages: 404Published: 2nd July 2015Genre: Mystery You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl … Continue reading Book Review – The Girls by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 283Published: September 2016Genre: Thriller The truth will set you free. Can lies do the same? Within minutes of arriving in the exotic, enigmatic, sweltering city of Marrakech, renowned author Jaspar Wills is kidnapped, blindfolded, bound, and beaten. As Wills struggles to survive the ordeal, he recounts his rise to fame and the tragic events … Continue reading Book Review – Set Free by Anthony Bidulka
Pages: 656Published: 18th September 2018Genre: Mystery So, this is the first time I have decided to review a book that is part of a series! The Cormoran Strike series is one of my favourites, and I certainly have a lot to say about this latest entry. In the meantime, I shall do my best to avoid spoilers … Continue reading Book Review – Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
Pages: 303Published: 12th January 2017Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day: the joke her friend made, the instructions her parents gave her, how old she is. Then she kisses a boy named Drake, and the next day she remembers it. It's the first time she's remembered anything since she was ten. … Continue reading Book Review – The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr
Pages: 434Published: 12th July 2018Genre: Crime Thriller A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive. No one knows who they are - the woman can't speak, and there are no missing persons reports that match their profile. The elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before. The … Continue reading Book Review – In The Dark by Cara Hunter
Pages: 380Published: 6th March 2018Genre: Crime Thriller Last night, 8-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from her parents' summer party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows that nine times out of ten, it's someone the … Continue reading Book Review – Close To Home by Cara Hunter
Pages: 372Published: 29th May 2012Genre: Mystery The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter—and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one years ago. Tommie wants to believe it’s all a hoax, but suddenly a … Continue reading Book Review – Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin
Pages: 302Published: 2nd October 2017Genre: Non-fiction The Trauma Cleaner is the story of one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay and disaster, told by Sarah Krasnostein. Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman. But as a little boy, raised in violence and … Continue reading Book Review – The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
Pages: 251Published: 26th November 2017Genre: Comedy Tom's marriage is faltering. His attractive, younger wife Kim is having an affair with her boss, and his teenage daughter Penny is embarrassed by him. One day Tom allows a chemist to shoot him up with a serum that will age him backward slowly. When he looks 25, he returns from … Continue reading Book Review – Younger Every Day by Rob Santana
Pages: 320Published: 2nd March 2017Genre: Young Adult Thriller Mae feels lucky to have grown up at Hummingbird Creek, an elite wellnessretreat where rich teens with psychological problems canget the help they need from her father, a prominent psychiatrist. The Creek has world-class cuisine, a state-of-the-art sports centreand the latest spa treatments. Every aspect of daily life is … Continue reading Book Review – See How They Lie by Sue Wallman
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