Month: January 2023
+ family, folklore, Ghost story, haunting, history, horror, murder, mystery, paranormal, podcast, review, supernatural, superstition, witchcraft, witches
The Witch Farm Podcast
It’s 1989, rural Wales, a lonely old farmhouse in the shadow of the imposing Brecon Beacons mountains. Young, pregnant Liz Rich and her artist husband Bill rent an isolated farmhouse in the Welsh countryside, with Bill’s teenage son Laurence. They’re hoping for a fresh start, but the house holds dark secrets, and the family’s new life becomes a terrifying ordeal that will change them … Read More The Witch Farm Podcast
+ brothers, childhood, family, fiction, literature, Malaya, memory, murder, mythology, review, secrets, superstition
Someone Is Coming by TA Morton
Memories come thick and heavy like the rains that fall in the jungle. Dense droplets wash the leaves and soak into the ground, cleansing the acrid smell of rubber, cleansing the jungle of its sins. I hear my mother’s voice. No more secrets, Philip, I promise. Someone is coming, get ready. #SomeoneIsComing @TAMortonWriter #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours #blogtour Philip Goundry is 93 and living out his days quietly … Read More Someone Is Coming by TA Morton
The Good by Cat on a Piano / Theatrephonic
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” April Crawford didn’t even know her mother had been in the army in Cyprus in 1958. That’s where she met her dad. Caitlin McLoughlin arrives at their house 65 years later to go over a statement which her mother signed at the time. Caitlin is a lawyer. Shootings … Read More The Good by Cat on a Piano / Theatrephonic
+ childhood, family, feel-good, fiction, friendship, gay community, love, marriage, relationships, review, secrets
Becoming Ted by Matt Cain
A charming, joyful and surprising story about love, friendship and learning to be true to yourself, Becoming Ted will steal your heart. Ted Ainsworth has always worked at his family’s ice-cream business in the quiet Lancashire town of St Luke’s-on-Sea. But the truth is, he’s never wanted to work for the family firm – he doesn’t even like ice-cream, though he’s never told his … Read More Becoming Ted by Matt Cain
+ childhood, coming-of-age, crime fiction, fiction, friendship, murder, murder mystery, review, sixties, superstition, wales, whimsical
Tiding by Sian Collins
A lyrical, engaging coming-of-age murder mystery set in the Great Freeze December 1962. Eleanor O’Dowd, a middle-aged piano teacher, is found stabbed and bludgeoned to death. As the Great Freeze of 1963 takes hold, local vicar’s daughter Daphne Morgan finds herself forced to navigate the confusing currents of the adult world, where she must face up to her own crimes and what she knows … Read More Tiding by Sian Collins
+ family, feel-good, female friendship, fiction, fifties, forgiveness, friendship, grief, literature, loss, love, marriage, motherhood, museum, pandemic, relationships, review, World War Two
Dark Enough To See The Stars by Beth Duke
The long-awaited sequel to bestseller and book club favorite It All Comes Back To You has arrived! Violet Glenn. Everybody loved her. In 1946, that included her boyfriend’s best friend, Sam Davidson. Ronni Johnson wrote a book about Violet. It changed her life. Now she’s back working as a registered nurse at Fairfield Springs, loving her patients and her job. She doesn’t have another … Read More Dark Enough To See The Stars by Beth Duke
Strays by Janeen Leese-Taylor
A murder without evidence, a secret that could topple society and a cop with a bit of a coffee habit! Three things were certain in the mind of Officer Theodore Night:One: There’s a serial killer loose in PortstewartTwo: His new friend is a werewolfThree: He’s in way over his head #Strays @InkAndSmudge @BlossomSpring3 @Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour When bloody paw prints at a crime scene … Read More Strays by Janeen Leese-Taylor
Six Days by Dani Atkins
Two people. One love story. Six days.He loves me… He loves me not… He loves me… Gemma knows that she and Finn are destined to be together. They are soulmates. But then, on their wedding day, he never arrives at the church. Gemma is convinced Finn wouldn’t abandon her like this, even though he has disappeared once before. But back then he had a … Read More Six Days by Dani Atkins
+ art, crime fiction, dark humour, Detective novel, fiction, jealousy, murder, murder mystery, obsession, police drama, review, thriller
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
You know how they live. This is how they die. THE NIGHT BEFORE Rupert’s 30th is a black tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald’s – catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot. THE MORNING AFTER His girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about Classics degrees and aristocrats, Instagram influencers and … Read More The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
+ demon, family, fiction, friendship, healing, literature, love, mindfulness, relationships, review, spirituality, therapy
Awakening by Abby Wynne
When Marissa’s fiancé leaves her unexpectedly, she is left trying to put the broken pieces of her life back together again. The magical years of her childhood are now lost or long forgotten and, trapped in a downward spiral of worry and anxiety, nothing seems to be bringing the magic back any time soon. Training to become a therapist, Marissa discovers an unforeseen talent … Read More Awakening by Abby Wynne
The Girl In The Red Coat by Kate Hamer
She is the missing girl. But she doesn’t know she’s lost. Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children’s festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. As days become weeks with her new family, … Read More The Girl In The Red Coat by Kate Hamer
+ childhood, Dogs, feel-good, fiction, friends, friendship, homelessness, humour fiction, loneliness, loss, review
Lost & Found by James Gould Bourn
Ronnie has resigned himself to a life of loneliness. His life in the crumbling seaside town of Bingham-on-Sea never seemed that bad, but since the loss of his father, the highlights of Ronnie’s solitary days include manning the lost property office at the bus station where he works, and plaguing his local GP with increasingly outlandish ailments. Forgotten or underestimated by all those around him, … Read More Lost & Found by James Gould Bourn
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