Synopsis: When it’s your job to save the day – where do you start? Librarian spy Irene has standards to maintain, especially while on probation. And absconding… Read more “#bookreview The Invisible Library series by Genevieve Cogman”
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The beginnings of a book list for 2023
This is a selection of fiction and non-fiction books I’m very much looking forward to reading in early 2023. “An insatiable passion possesses me, which even today… Read more “The beginnings of a book list for 2023”
#bookreview Lark Rise by Flora Thompson published by Slightly Foxed
Slightly Foxed edition published 2022 Bookseller synopsis: Lark Rise is Flora Thompson’s childhood memories of a north Oxfordshire village, the people who lived and worked in it,… Read more “#bookreview Lark Rise by Flora Thompson published by Slightly Foxed”
#bookreview The Binding by Bridget Collins published by The Borough Press
Bookseller synopsis: Imagine you could erase grief.Imagine you could remove pain.Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret.Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields… Read more “#bookreview The Binding by Bridget Collins published by The Borough Press”
#bookreview The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley published by HarperCollins
Synopsis: Welcome to No.12 Rue des Amants A beautiful old apartment block, far from the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the… Read more “#bookreview The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley published by HarperCollins”
#bookreview The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
Synopsis Come home, if you remember.The postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front… Read more “#bookreview The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley”
#bookreview The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola published by Orion early 2022
Synopsis: Paris, 1750. In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city’s… Read more “#bookreview The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola published by Orion early 2022”
#bookreview Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
Bookseller synopsis: You were the last one here before I closed the door of Burntcoat, before we all shut our doors. In the bedroom above her immense… Read more “#bookreview Burntcoat by Sarah Hall”
#bookreview Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr published by Harper Collins
Bookseller synopsis: Bound together by a single ancient text, the unforgettable characters of Cloud Cuckoo Land are dreamers and outsiders figuring out the world around them: thirteen-year-old Anna and… Read more “#bookreview Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr published by Harper Collins”
#bookreview Fledgling by Lucy Hope
Bookseller synopsis: A dark, gothic adventure set in the Bavarian forest, with angels and owls and magic and a boy who isn’t all that he seems to… Read more “#bookreview Fledgling by Lucy Hope”
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