Posts Tagged ‘book reviews’
Book launch tour for The Letter from the Island
I’m pleased to be joining the Bookouture launch tour for Rose Alexander’s latest novel, The Letter from the Island. I enjoyed this dual timeline novel set in modern-day and WWII-era Crete, Greece. Dual timeline novels are a genre I love, and especially a novel like this in which an elderly woman is looking back upon…
Read MoreJoining the book tour for The Lost Garden launch
Very pleased to join the launch tour for Angela Petch’s newest novel, The Lost Garden. Like me, Petch is an expat who lives in Italy, so I know I’m in good hands for her Italian tales. I enjoyed Petch’s latest novel, a coming of age tale set in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region in the 1930s.…
Read MoreNew Kirkus review for Dark Blue Waves
Pleased to have received a new Kirkus Review book review for my time travel women’s fiction/historical romance novel, Dark Blue Waves. I’ve loved writing all my novels, but as a huge Jane Austen fan, writing this one imagining a modern girl transported back to 1813 was a dream come true. Here’s the full review below.…
Read MoreOn tour for the launch of The Wedding Party by Lorna Dounaeva
Happy to be part of the Bookouture book tour for the launch of Lorna Dounaeva’s newest novel, The Wedding Party. Happy launch week! I enjoyed this twisty, fast-paced psychological thriller. You can find my review below, alongside the book blurb, author bio and buy links. My review: I’ve read a few recent claustrophobic psychological thrillers…
Read MoreMy April 2024 reads
April brought another fabulous – and varied – month month in books. I started the month off with a classic author, Elizabeth Gaskell, a friend and contemporary of Charles Dickens, who published her novels serially in his literary magazines. I had never read her novella of the Salem Witch Trials and enjoyed this interesting recounting…
Read MoreMy March 2024 reads
Another month accompanied by another great stack of books. My stack was – ahem – a little slimmer this month because I had to read my own work. I’m revising my next novel before it goes to my editor, to be released this autumn. As any writer will tell you, reading novels by other authors…
Read MoreMy February 2024 reads
Another month, another great stack of books. I started off the month in Britain, with two psychological thrillers. First I followed the lives of a financially struggling heart recipient and the wealthy family whose daughter’s death provide the needed heart. As the heart recipient and donor’s family grow closer, the twists and turns go hard…
Read MoreBook Review : The Patient
Pleased to be invited on this Bookouture Book Launch tour for the new thriller, The Patient, by Teri Terry. This novel, released 13 February, was a fast-paced, page-turning psychological thriller. This novel is told through the perspectives of two protagonists. Saphy is a young woman in her late twenties, living in London. Saphy’s life…
Read MoreMy January 2024 Reads
New year, and another great month in books. I started off the month on my way to a luxurious destinataion wedding, but got lost in a blinding snowstorm in Germany. After having found shelter in a Bavarian ghost town, strange things began happening. And then the bodies started appearing. Next I journeyed to a quiet…
Read MoreMidwest Review editorial review for Rome’s Last Noble Palace
I’m always thrilled to get a good editorial review from the excellent Midwest Book Review. Here, below is the full review that went live on their site this month, for my newest release, Rome’s Last Noble Palace: Rome’s Last Noble Palace follows the lives of two different women who live in different centuries. There’s 1896…
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