‘The German Number One Bestseller’– Mexico Street [ About the Book ] Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect. Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched.…
‘He sat up, pushed back the bedclothes, held her gaze, and she felt a bolt, a charge that made her want to sink to the floor. Here it is, she thought, here is love, and fear’– The Weight of Love [ About the Book ] London, 1995. Robin and Ruth meet in the staff room…
‘Of my life’s work, only the translations now seem to me to have merit.’– A Matter of Interpretation [ About the Book ] It’s thirteenth-century Europe and a young monk, Michael Scot, has been asked by the Holy Roman Emperor to translate the works of Aristotle and recover his ‘lost’ knowledge. The Scot sets to…
‘To get up from rock bottom, you’ve got to take the stairs…’– The Neighbours [ About the Book ] Some women have it all…. Others are thirty-four, renting a tiny flat alone because they recently found their long-term boyfriend in bed with their boss. Unfortunately, the latter applies to Ginny Taylor. Single and jobless, Ginny…
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize with my review of longlisted nominee Yara Rodrigues Fowler and her debut novel Stubborn Archivist I am thrilled to be involved with the blog tour for the prestigious literary award, The International Dylan Thomas Prize, with my review of one of the long-listed titles, Stubborn Archivist…
She has days to live…You have one chance to find her…– Grace is Gone [ About the Book ] Meg and her daughter Grace are the most beloved family in Ashford, the lynchpin that holds the community together. So when Meg is found brutally murdered and her daughter missing, the town is rocked by the…
What if some secrets were meant to stay buried?– None the Wiser [ About the Book ] When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock – and fear. New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears the hallmark…
‘A story of love, hope and resilience rippling through the generations..’– The Book of Echoes [ About the Book ] Narrated by the soul of an African slave woman, who giving thanks at a shrine in Africa over two hundred years ago, tosses her infant son to safety moments before she is hauled away by slavers.…
‘Every baby’s bracelet held a mother’s secret…’– The Paper Bracelet [ About the Book ] For almost fifty years, Katie has kept a box of secrets. It dates from her time working as a nurse in a west of Ireland mother and baby home, and contains a notebook with details of the babies and young…
‘One circle of strangersTwo people who’d rather be anywhere elseThree lives about to change for ever‘– Saturdays at Noon [ About the Book ] Emily just wants to keep the world away.She doesn’t want anyone to know all the ways her life is messed up.Going to anger management every Saturday, talking to strangers, was not…