Eight Perfect Hours

Dear Readers, Last year I read Lia Louis's debut novel Dear Emmie Blue and loved it (you can read my review here...). So I was super excited to discover that this summer brings her second novel, Eight Perfect Hours. Another heart-warming romance about finding love where you least expect it and the beautiful magic of …

Monthly Wrap-Up: July 2021

Another great few weeks of reading... can't wait to share them with you! Books I Have Finished This Month The Summer Book by Tove Jansson: Back at the start of the year I had a delve into the work of Jansson; reading some of her short stories, correspondence and of course her iconic Moomin adventures! …

The Appeal

One Murder. Fifteen Suspects. Can You Uncover The Truth? Written by Janice Hallett Crime | Thriller | Mystery In a town full of secrets... Someone was murdered. Someone went to prison. And everyone's a suspect. Can you uncover the truth? Dear Reader - enclosed are all the documents you need to solve a case. It …

Charity Shop Book Haul!

Dear Readers, The other week I really enjoyed reading Em's post about her recent purchases from the charity shop. You can check out the post here... I too had been lucky on a recent second hand book haul and so was inspired to share them with you today - thanks Em! I always talk about …

Miss Benson’s Beetle

Dear Readers, If you are a regular follower (sending my love to you!) then you will already know how much I adored this book since I mentioned it last week in my June Wrap-Up post. But I ask you, who can resist a book that opens with the words... When Margery was ten, she fell …

The Feast

Dear Readers, I have already mentioned this latest read of mine in some of my recent round-up posts, but it is so brilliant that today I am dedicating a whole post to my love for this book! The Feast by Margaret Kennedy, foreword by Cathy Rentzenbrink Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel has just been …

Monthly Wrap-Up: June 2021

Dear Readers, Welcome to my first Monthly Wrap-Up here on my blog! June has just been such an amazing month for reading with me that I was inspired to do a wrap up basically just so I can talk about all the brilliant books I have read even more! So what books have I read …

Venetia

Dear Readers, I really am just loving Georgette Heyer at the moment - despite Venetia being only the second of her novels that I've read so far - I just can't get enough of her! (Read my review of my first Heyer, April Lady, here...) But onto Venetia... Venetia by Georgette Heyer, read by Gemma …

Circus of Wonders

Dear Reader, The anticipation surrounding the release of this book, and the fame when it was published last month, was enough to rival that of main character Nellie Moon herself! I obviously could not help but metaphorically 'attend the show' to see for myself... and my goodness was it worth it! What a show indeed! …

Cunning Women

Dear Reader, Happy Monday 🙂 I've got a particularly brilliant book to share with you today! If you follow me on Twitter you may know that I recently attended the virtual event #MythsMadamsandMurder in which, authors Jennifer Saint, Lucy Holland, Phoebe Wynne and Elizabeth Lee were in conversation with book vlogger and podcast host Jean …