Category: love
+ art, choir, disability, family, fiction, journalist, love, music, relationships, review, sisters, twins
Amateurs by Gill Oliver
Beth Collier, up-and-coming composer, is shamed into acting as accompanist for her mum’s amateur choir. And yes, they have a lot to teach her. There’s no monopoly on talent, though; Alice, her brain-injured twin, has quite a voice, and leads her own band. But as the truth about the sisters’ upbringing unfolds, Beth confronts big questions about her own identity. Genre: Contemporary | Humour | … Read More Amateurs by Gill Oliver
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
Clayton Stumper is an enigma. He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your granddad and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by the sharpest minds in the British Isles and finds himself amongst the last survivors of a fading institution. #TheFellowshipOfPuzzleMakers @samuelburr @orionbooks #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours #blogtour #puzzlemakers When the esteemed … Read More The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
+ female friendship, fiction, gay, gay community, grief, lockdown, loss, love, mental health, mental illness, psychiatric hospital, review
Hold Back The Night by Jessica Moor
From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delving into one nurse’s experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy and the heart-breaking betrayal of the AIDS crisis. March 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company. But then she receives a phone call … Read More Hold Back The Night by Jessica Moor
Fanning Fireflies by LS Delorme
There is something rotting in Harrisville. It’s 1944 and Veronica works so she can afford to eat. Maybe one day she will save enough to own the home her family is living in, but for now, she doesn’t have time for fanciful thoughts, or much else. She doesn’t have time for the fire whispering to her, the ghosts trying to talk to her and … Read More Fanning Fireflies by LS Delorme
The Night In Question by Susan Fletcher
Florence Butterfield has lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and adventure. But, at eighty-seven, she suspects there are no more surprises to come her way.Then, one midsummer’s night, something terrible happens – so strange and unexpected that Florrie is suspicious. Was this really an accident, or is she living alongside a would-be murderer? #TheNightInQuestion @sfletcherauthor#RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours #blogtour The only clue is a magenta envelope, discarded … Read More The Night In Question by Susan Fletcher
+ alcoholism, domestic noir, family, fiction, grief, Historical fiction, history, loss, love, marriage, motherhood, photography, relationships, review, war, World War Two, WW2
Hungry Ghosts by C J Barker
The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, … Read More Hungry Ghosts by C J Barker
+ family, fiction, lies, love, motherhood, relationships, review, secrets, thriller
The New Son by Iain Maitland
Nina always wanted a child of her own. Now she has one. Nina feels trapped. Her partner Gary is controlling, his daughter hates her, and she’s recently suffered a miscarriage. Just as her life seems hopeless, Alex, the son she gave up for adoption nearly 20 years ago, shows up at her door. Somehow, he has tracked her down. #TheNewSon X(Twitter) #IainMaitland @inkubatorbooks @ZooloosBT #ZooloosBookTours #blogtourInstagram @inkubatorbooks @zooloosbooktours #bookstagram Their reunion is … Read More The New Son by Iain Maitland
+ friends, friendship, grief, lies, love, motherhood, secrets
Nosy Neighbours by Freya Sampson
You can choose your home, but you can’t choose who lives next door . . . Twenty-five-year-old Kat Bennett has never felt at home anywhere, especially not in crumbling Shelley House. The other residents think she’s prickly and unapproachable, but beneath her tough exterior, Kat is plagued by guilt from her past and looking for somewhere to belong. #NosyNeighbours X/Twitter: @SampsonF @ZaffreBooks @Tr4cyF3nt0n #CompulsiveReaders #blogtour #booktwitterInstagram: … Read More Nosy Neighbours by Freya Sampson
+ family, female friendship, fiction, Ghost story, gothic, gothic horror, Gothic mystery, grief, haunting, lies, loss, love, marriage, motherhood, psychic, review, secrets, supernatural
The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley
Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and arrives at Guardbridge, his estate on the Yorkshire moors, she thinks she has finally put darkness behind her. She is mistaken. Edward’s sister, Iris, still lives in the family home. A taxidermist and medium, she urges Annie to watch out for black feathers – claiming that they mark … Read More The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley
+ Australia, childhood, crime fiction, family, fiction, forgiveness, friendship, grief, journalist, lies, loss, love, murder, obsession, police corruption, Psychological fiction, review, secrets, sisters, thriller
To The River by Vikki Wakefield
How long can you hide the truth? The Kelly family has always been trouble. When a fire in a remote caravan community kills nine people, including 17-year- old Sabine Kelly’s mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. #ToTheRiver @VikkiWakefield @noexitpress #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours #blogtour Recently made redundant from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weidermann has long suspected … Read More To The River by Vikki Wakefield
+ cult, fiction, love, Magical realism, review
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magic of books and is a “wonderful story of love and growth” (Stephen King). One June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the … Read More The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
+ family, fiction, grief, kidnapping, legal drama, lies, loss, love, motherhood, murder, mystery, obsession, review, secrets, thriller
Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood
A brilliantly compelling domestic suspense from a rising star of the crime fiction world, and the man behind BBC/Netflix smash hit, You Don’t Know Me Sophie King is missing. Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last seventeen years, they’ve done everything for their beloved only daughter and now she’s gone. #FindingSophie @imranmahmood777 @BloomsburyRaven @Tr4cyF3nt0n #CompulsiveReaders #blogtour The police have no leads, and Harry and Zara are … Read More Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood
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