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 A White Christmas on Winter Street by Sue Moorcroft published by Avon Books UK
Synopsis: When Sky Terran returns to the village of Middledip after losing the job she loves, she anticipates a quiet Christmas getting used to her new life. However, the… Read more “#bookreview A White Christmas on Winter Street by Sue Moorcroft published by Avon Books UK”
#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 A midlife holiday by Cary J Hansson
Synopsis: She wanted a change. But will a girls’ trip to the Mediterranean recapture her joy? Helen Winters worries the walls are closing in. With her children… Read more “#bookreview A midlife holiday by Cary J Hansson”
#bookreview Old Friends Reunited by Maddie Please
Synopsis: Divorced and on a deadline, bestselling novelist Bea Pinkerton has a serious case of writer’s block. With her agent breathing down her neck, Bea will do… Read more “#bookreview Old Friends Reunited by Maddie Please”
#bookreview The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin
Bookseller synopsis: August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers… Read more “#bookreview The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin”
#review The Promise, A narrative poem by Jan Miklaszewicz
They were meant to be,he the river, she the sea,yet fate can be cruel,far crueller than men, and notall promises can be kept. Set in feudal Japan… Read more “#review The Promise, A narrative poem by Jan Miklaszewicz”
#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 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”
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