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Monthly Archives: April 2019

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#TheEvidenceAgainstYou by @GillianMAuthor | #BookReview | #BlogTour

‘Seventeen years ago he was sent to prison.Now he’s out.And he is looking for you….’ [ About the Book ] It’s the day her father will be released from jail. Izzy English has every reason to feel conflicted – he’s the man who gave her a childhood filled with happy memories. But he has also…

30th April 20196 CommentsBlog Tour, Book ReviewBy magsmin

#PerfectCrime by @Helen_Fields | #BookReview | #Extract |@AvonBooksUK | #BlogTour

Life or death.Fight or flight.Your darkest moment is your most vulnerable [ About the Book ] Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner are drafted in…

29th April 2019Leave a commentBlog Tour, Book Review, ExtractBy magsmin

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | @wellcomebkprize | @midaspr

It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? [ About the Book ] ‘A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has…

26th April 20194 CommentsBlog Tour, Book ReviewBy magsmin

#Stasi77 by David Young | #BookReview | @djy_writer | @ZaffreBooks

A Secret StateA Dark ConspiracyA Terrible Crime [ About the Book ] Karin Müller of the German Democratic Republic’s People’s Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered – bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. But who is he? Why was…

24th April 2019Leave a commentBook ReviewBy magsmin

An Italian Affair by Caroline Montague | #BookReview | @CMontagueAuthor

A sweeping story of love, betrayal and war…. [ About the Book ] Love. War. Family. Betrayal. Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home…

23rd April 2019Leave a commentBook ReviewBy magsmin

#CallMeStarGirl by Louise Beech | #BookReview | @OrendaBooks | @LouiseWriter

‘Before they found the girl in the alley, I found a book in the foyer at work. The girl would be found dead, her neck bloody, her body covered with a red coat, and with no obvious clues as to who had left her that way. The book was brand new, unopened, wrapped in brown…

19th April 20194 CommentsBook ReviewBy magsmin

The Lives Before Us by Juliet Conlin | #BookReview | #Blogtour | @JulietConlin |@bwpublishing

Two women.A world at war.Can they survive the Shanghai Ghetto? [ About the Book ] It is April 1939, and, in Berlin and Vienna, Esther and Kitty face a brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai … They’ve heard it whispered that Shanghai might offer refuge. And so, on a crowded…

17th April 20199 CommentsBlog Tour, Book ReviewBy magsmin

In Honour Bound by Christine Webber | @1chriswebber | #BookReview

They met in cosmopolitan London in the 1980s – a decade of opportunity where everything seemed possible.But was it? [ About the Book ] Set in London in the mid-1980s – a decade of opportunity where everything seemed possible – Helen Bartlett, a popular news presenter and Sam Aziz, a glamorous middle-eastern cardiac surgeon, meet…

16th April 2019Leave a commentBook ReviewBy magsmin

White Leaves of Peace by Tracey Iceton | #Blogtour | #GuestPost| @BultiauwBooks

Today I join Tracey Iceton on tour with White Leaves of Peace, the final part of the explosive Celtic Colours Trilogy, just released with Cinnamon Press. Set in Northern Ireland both around the time of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and June of 2016 just after the Brexit referendum, we follow Cian Duffy as he confronts…

15th April 2019Leave a commentBlog Tour, Guest PostBy magsmin

#BookReview | The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he? [ About the Book ] Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by…

12th April 20196 CommentsBook ReviewBy magsmin
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