Category Archives: Book Review
Blog Tour: Summer at the Kindness Cafe by Victoria Walters
Welcome to Brew, a cafe where kindness is almost as important as coffee… almost! Abbie has fled London and the humiliation of not being able to make rent after being made redundant. Her sister, Louise, unlucky in love, has thrown herself into her career … Continue reading
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Tagged Independent women, Kindness, Romance, Small Town, Summer
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Book Review: Fish Soup by Margarita Garcia Robayo tr Charlotte Coombe
From internationally acclaimed author Margarita García Robayo comes Fish Soup, a unique collection comprising two novellas plus the book of short stories Worse Things (winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize). Set on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, … Continue reading
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Tagged Colombia, Latin America, Spanish, Translation
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Book Review: The Vinyl Detective: The Run-Out Groove by Andrew Cartmel
His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second begins with the discovery of one. When a mint copy of the final album by “Valerian”–England’s great lost rock band of the 1960s–surfaces in a charity shop, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, Andrew Cartmel, Music, Mystery, Vinyl Detective
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Book Review: Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club – an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade. Mattie is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Fascism, Inter-War years, Suffrage, suffragette, Votes for Women
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Book Review: I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman
For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark – a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark’s fandom has given her everything she loves – her friend Juliet, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boybands, fandom, LGBTQ, Pop Music, Toxic Fandom
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