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”
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#bookreview The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean published by Harper Voyager
Synopsis: Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on… Read more “#bookreview The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean published by Harper Voyager”
#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Autumn issue 2022, no.75 @FoxedQuarterly
Autumn 2022: Crisp, cold mornings have replaced humid nights, and with them the urge to take long morning walks with my affectionate and loyal dog Mr Dawsey… Read more “#bookreview Slightly Foxed, Autumn issue 2022, no.75 @FoxedQuarterly”
#bookreview The Ladies of the secret Circus by Constance Sayers
Synopsis: The surest way to get a ticket to Le Cirque Secret is to wish for it . . . Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus… Read more “#bookreview The Ladies of the secret Circus by Constance Sayers”
#bookreview The Hotel on the Riviera by Carol Kirkwood
Synopsis: By the sapphire blue waters of the French Riviera, a decades-long secret is about to be revealed… Wayward Greek heiress, Ariana Theodosis, inherits the Hotel du… Read more “#bookreview The Hotel on the Riviera by Carol Kirkwood”
#bookreview Night Music by Jojo Moyes
Synopsis: The Spanish House is a hotch-potch of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known… Read more “#bookreview Night Music by Jojo Moyes”
#bookreview Postscript by Cecelia Ahearn published by HarperCollinsUK
Amazon: It’s been seven years since Holly Kennedy’s husband died six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new… Read more “#bookreview Postscript by Cecelia Ahearn published by HarperCollinsUK”
#bookreview Violetta by Isabel Allende
Bookseller synopsis: One extraordinary woman.One hundred years of history.One unforgettable story. Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a… Read more “#bookreview Violetta by Isabel Allende”
#bookreview The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson published by Hodder&Stoughton
Bookseller synopsis: London, 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country’s only underground library,… Read more “#bookreview The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson published by Hodder&Stoughton”
#bookreview The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Bookseller synopsis: For centuries, the Owens family has been cursed in matters of love. When beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the sound of the deathwatch beetle, she… Read more “#bookreview The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman”