Month: Apr 2020
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Sing Backwards And Weep by Mark Lanegan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Kurt Cobain’s best friend and former Queens of the Stone Age member unveils the gritty underbelly of the Seattle music scene in the most honest and unflinching grunge memoir to date When the rock maverick and grunge pioneer Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle in the mid-1980s, he was just another nihilistic waster […]
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The Girl And The Stars by Mark Lawrence – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB East of the Black Rock, out on the ice, lies a hole down which broken children are thrown. On the vastness of the ice there is no room for individuals. No one survives alone. To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires […]
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Q by Christina Dalcher – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state’s new elite schools. Her daughters are exactly like her: beautiful, ambitious, and perfect. A good thing, since the recent mandate that’s swept the country is all about perfection. Now everyone must undergo routine tests for their quotient, Q, and any children who don’t […]
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The Heron Kings By Eric Lewis – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB After a warlord slaughters her patients, Sister Alessia quits the cloister and strikes out on her own to heal the victims of a brutal dynastic conflict. Her roaming forest camp unwittingly becomes the center of a vengeful peasant insurgency, raiding the forces of both sides to survive. Alessia struggles to temper their fury […]
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Boy In The Box by Marc E. Fitch – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB This is what true horror is meant to be, quiet and thoughtful, an eerie sense of something lurking just ahead in your path with no way of escape.” — Eric J. Guignard, award-winning author and editor, including That Which Grows Wild and A World of Horror Ten years ago a mysterious and tragic […]
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The Museum Of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Paris, today. The Museum of Broken Promises is a place of wonder and sadness, hope and loss. Every object in the museum has been donated – a cake tin, a wedding veil, a baby’s shoe. And each represent a moment of grief or terrible betrayal. The museum is a place where people come […]
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The Wrongful Death by Kenneth B. Andersen – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB An unfortunate chain of events makes Philip responsible for the untimely death of the school bully Sam—the Devil’s original choice for an heir. Philip must return to Hell to find Sam and bring him back to life, so that fate can be restored. But trouble is stirring in Lucifer’s kingdom and not even […]
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The F*ck It List by John Niven – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You are dying. Who do you kill? Set in a near-future America, an America that has borne two terms of a Trump Presidency and is now in the first term of Donald’s daughter as president, Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, lives in a world where the populist policies Trump is currently […]
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Animal Societies By Ashley Ward – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In our modern world of social media and relentless technological advancement, we are more connected than ever before. Though the scale of this connectivity is new, the instinctive desire to gather with our own kind has ancient roots. We can see the origins of our own societies in the social behaviour of […]
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Play by C.S. Barnes – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How do you solve a case when there isn’t a crime scene? When DI Melanie Watton and her team are called in to investigate a video recording that surfaces in a local school, they realise that they have a complex case on their hands. When the recording is studied by the Medical Examiner, […]
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The Wrong Move by Jennifer Savin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB YOU THOUGHT IT WAS THE PERFECT FLAT… When Jessie moves into a flatshare at Maver Place, she’s finally found a decent place to live. And when she’s befriended by fellow tenants Lauren and Sofie, she’s got great flatmates to share it with. You think she’s safe. You think she can trust these people. […]
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The Girl In The White Dress by Paul Barrell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Girl in the White Dress is quite simply unforgettable and unputdownable. It is based on a true story . Every Family has secrets. Imagine discovering you were guilty of something you can’t remember. 1974 A family from London take a trip of a lifetime to the Caribbean aboard the cruise liner Oriana. […]
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The Murder Game by Rachel Abbott – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The dark and breathtakingly tense new novel from the queen of psychological thrillers A year ago today, we all gathered for Lucas’ wedding at his glorious Cornish home overlooking the sea. But no one was married that day. Now Lucas has invited us back to celebrate the anniversary. But the anniversary of what? […]
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The Princess Of Felling by Elaine Cusack – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Princess Of Felling describes Elaine’s childhood and adolescence growing up on Tyneside in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The book pays homage to her hometown of Felling on Tyne and is an extended loving letter to her late parents. This illustrated poetic memoir features a Foreword by Michael Chaplin, photographs of Felling taken […]
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*PROMO* – TIDELANDS by Philippa Gregory
ONLY 99p at the moment…. https://amzn.to/2xIGRxn THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every […]
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Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan. Her career as a children’s book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive. Teddy, now a teenager, treats her with some combination of mortification and indifference. Her best friend is dying. And her husband, Gary, has become a pot-addled professional “snackologist” […]
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I Am Dust by Louise Beech – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When iconic musical Dust is revived twenty years after the leading actress was murdered in her dressing room, a series of eerie events haunts the new cast… The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… […]
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The Book Of Koli by M.R Carey – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The first in a gripping new trilogy, The Book of Koli charts the journey of one unforgettable young boy struggling to find his place in a chilling post-apocalyptic world. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and Annihilation. Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable world. A […]
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Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang – Book Review @MidasPR @HoZ_Books #Vagabonds
PUBLISHERS BLURB In 2096, after Earth has successfully colonised Mars, a war of independence erupts and Mars breaks away from Earth’s rule. Over the next century, two radically different societies develop, each regarding the other with mutual suspicion. Eventually, Mars sends a group of young delegates to spend five years on Earth in an attempt […]
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8 1/2 Stone by Liz Jones – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When I reach eight and a half stone: I will be able to shop in Topshop. If only I could fit in a size 10 or an 8, just walk in a shop and not even have to try it on because let’s face it I will be straight up and […]
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