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Monthly Archives: August 2020

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#Giveaway The Diver and The Lover by Jeremy Vine @CoronetBooks @HodderBooks | #TheDiverAndTheLover | #BookGiveaway | #Win

Blog Tour, BookGiveawayBy magsmin31st August 20204 Comments

“This story comes out of my love for -okay obsession with – a single painting that hangs in the Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow. Salvador Dali’s masterwork was posed by a world famous stuntman whom he hung from a gantry in his studio”– Jeremy Vine, The Diver and The Lover The Diver and The Lover by…

#BookReview – #StrangeFlowers by Donal Ryan

Book ReviewBy magsmin28th August 20202 Comments

‘All the light left Paddy Gladney’s eyes when his daughter disappeared; all the gladness went from his heart’– Strange Flowers [ About the Book ] In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never…

#BookReview | #DearEmmieBlue by Lia Louis | @LisforLia | @TrapezeBooks

Book ReviewBy magsmin26th August 2020Leave a comment

“Hi Emmeline,My name is Lucas Moreau. I live in Le Touquet, France. I found your balloon on a beach near Boulogne-sur-Mer yesterday. It made it over one ocean and over 100 miles”– Dear Emmie Blue [ About the Book ] Emmie Blue has a secret… A long time ago, Emmie Blue released a red balloon…

#BookReview | #SmallPleasures by Clare Chambers |@wnbooks | @ClareDChambers

Book ReviewBy magsmin25th August 2020Leave a comment

‘She tried to remember what life was like before she had met the Tilburys.She wondered how many years – if ever – it would be before the monster of awakened longing was subdued and she could return to placid acceptance of a limited life’– Small Pleasures [ About the Book ] 1957, south-east suburbs of…

#LittleBookOfHope by Louise Hall | @LouHallWriter | #GuestPost

Guest PostBy magsmin24th August 20201 Comment

“The past few months have made us realise that change is inevitable – sometimes good but sometimes it can be cruel and makes your world go out of control.“– Louise Hall, Little Book of Hope I took a few weeks away from the blog for various reasons, but mainly because my brain was frazzled. Our…

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