Budding landscape architect Luisa MacGregor is stuck in a rut – she hates her boss, she lives with her sister, and she is still mourning the loss of her husband many years ago. So when she is given the opportunity to take on a parcel of land in a deprived area, she sees the chance… Continue reading The Forgotten Garden by Sharon Gosling
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All About Evie by Matson Taylor
1972. Ten years on from the events of The Miseducation of Evie Epworth and Evie is settled in London working for the BBC. She has everything she’s ever dreamed of (a career, a leatherette briefcase, an Ossie Clark poncho) but, following an unfortunate incident involving Princess Anne and a Hornsea Pottery mug, she finds herself… Continue reading All About Evie by Matson Taylor
The Book-Lovers Retreat by Heidi Swain
One long summer. One perfect setting. Can fiction inspire real life…? Sometimes a book grabs you by the heart and grows to mean everything to you. That’s what Hope Falls is to friends Emily, Rachel and Tori. So, when they get the chance to spend a whole summer at the cottage in Lakeside where the… Continue reading The Book-Lovers Retreat by Heidi Swain
The Favour by Nicci French
A good deedCan turn deadly… When Jude’s first love Liam turns up in her life after ten years of no contact, asking her for a favour, she just can’t say no. He will always be someone special to her.But does she really know what she is getting herself into? After she does the favour, Jude… Continue reading The Favour by Nicci French
The Cornish Hideaway by Jennifer Bibby
All Freya has ever wanted to do is paint. So when she fails her Master’s Degree in Art, on the same day that her boyfriend decides he needs a ‘more serious’ partner, to Freya it feels like the end of the world. Luckily, she has a saviour in the shape of best friend Lola, who… Continue reading The Cornish Hideaway by Jennifer Bibby
The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor
Today I’m absolutely thrilled to share my review again for this stunning debut novel on my book blog today. Thank you to Jess Barratt at Scribner, a Simon and Schuster UK imprint, for a gorgeous proof copy – my thoughts about the book are all my own and not influenced by the gift. All About… Continue reading The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor
The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs
Eliza Acton is a poet who’s never boiled an egg.But she’s about to break the mould of traditional cookbooks And change the course of cookery writing forever. England 1835. Eliza Acton is a poet who dreams of seeing her words in print. But when she takes a new manuscript to a publisher, she’s told that ‘poetry is… Continue reading The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs
The Daughter-In-Law by Fanny Blake
When Hope’s only son Paul met and married Edie, Hope was delighted that he had found love and was settling down to make his own family. Hope has loved bringing up her own child, and is happy to step in and help out now and again – but is always worried about overstepping the line… Continue reading The Daughter-In-Law by Fanny Blake
This Could Be Everything by Eva Rice
It’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a fifteen-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of the Face magazine, and Julia Roberts wears thigh-boots for the poster of a new movie called Pretty Woman. February Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. Then one evening in… Continue reading This Could Be Everything by Eva Rice
The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish
Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong man. Alex lives a comfortable life with his wife Beth in the leafy suburb of Silver Vale. Fine, so he’s not the most sociable guy on the street, he prefers to keep himself to himself, but he’s a good husband and an easy-going neighbour. That’s until Beth announces the creation… Continue reading The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish
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