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URBAN FANTASY: Twice Born – Marina Finlayson
About the Book: Still grieving her beloved son, Kate O’Connor’s just going through the motions. She doesn’t care that strangers often shadow her on the unorthodox courier jobs she does for a friend. She doesn’t even care what’s in the packages until the day she returns from a special rush job with no memory of…
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Interview: Elaine Chissick
Elaine Chissick is a Yorkshire-born, cat-loving, romance-writing author who is currently working on her third book. Her first, Willing and Able, is a true story of the adoption process. Her second book, Ties That Bind, is an erotic/romantic fiction. She is currently working on her third book, Ties That Harm. She kindly let me pick…
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General Fiction: Roast Pork – Janet Gogerty
The smell of roast pork tantalised his nostrils and made his mouth water. It was a long time since he had eaten his sandwiches and his circular route through the New Forest should have brought him back to Hinton Admiral Station by now. But there had been no sign of a railway line, let alone…
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A Reader’s Experience with Indie
By Pinkmads Picks Nicola Hudson is a self published British New Adult author. I first became aware of her in December 2014 when she held a take over on the Facebook page of a blog that I have followed for a while. I see these happen quite regularly but often miss them either because I’m working…
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THRILLERS: In the Name of Honor – Richard North Patterson
From My Bookshelf by Lynn Willoughby: In the Name of Honor ~ Richard North Patterson This is a legal thriller where most of the action takes place in a courtroom. Lt Brian McCarran is on trial for murder and adultery. Both criminal acts in the military. I’m not usually a fan of courtroom drama, but…
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Letting Go
Just got back off my holidays. Lovely time. Devon, then home. Scotland, then home. Maybe not the most adventurous of choices, but it was fun, and that’s the most important thing. It’s when you go away, and then come back, that you realise what kind of person you are. There are people who can get…
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Suspense FF: A Dark Place by J. New
I live in a box. It’s dark and lonely and cramped. Built by someone with no flair for design it has no redeeming features, in fact it has no features at all it’s just a boring box. No colour seeps into my world, no light shines through the cracks between the walls, no sunshine warms…
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Jane Davis on the Influence of Reading
Jane Davis is the author of six novels. Her debut, Half-truths and White Lies, won the Daily Mail First Novel Award and was described by Joanne Harris as ‘A story of secrets, lies, grief and, ultimately, redemption, charmingly handled by this very promising new writer.’ The Bookseller featured her in their ‘One to Watch’ section.…
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From My Bookshelf: Bryce Courtney
By Lynn Willoughby Whitethorn ~ Bryce Courtney Some time ago I was invited to lunch and each of us was asked to set our own place to remind us of our favourite author. I chose Courtney as I have been deeply moved by all of his novels, and knew I could defend my choice. Whitethorn was published…
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HUMOUR: My Date with the Dead – Riley J. Froud
The day that I died was ordinary. Ordinary until I died, that is. I suppose for everybody else, it was still pretty ordinary – people die all the time, but I’d never died before so it wasn’t ordinary for me. It was extraordinary. Death is nowhere near as exciting – nor as worrying, as I’d…
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