#Bookreview #ManBookerLonglist HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie (@kamilashamsie) A powerful, touching, and beautiful book for readers prepared to ask themselves the big questions. #amreading

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Hi all: Today I share the review of the last of the books I had already on my Kindle that has made it into this year’s ManBooker Longlist. The shortlist should be coming out this week. I wonder if any of the ones I’ve read will make it. This one I really liked and I
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#Bookreview EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid (@mohsin_hamid) #ManBookerPrize A novel not for everybody that everybody should read #migration

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Hi all: I bring you my review of another one of the novels that have made it into the Man-Booker Longlist. Here is it. Exit West: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 by Mohsin Hamid Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize “It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and
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#TuesdayBookBlog #RBRT BLOOD ROSE ANGEL by Liza Perrat (@LizaPerrat) The Black Death, midwifery and it was hard to be a woman in XIV century France. Highly recommended #Bookreview

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Hi all: Today I bring you a treat. This is a book by an author I discovered thanks to Rosie’s Book Review Team and I’ve become a big fan. Blood Rose Angel by Liza Perrat A bone-sculpted angel and the woman who wears it––heretic, Devil’s servant, saint. Midwife Héloïse has always known that her bastard status
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#TuesdayBookBlog #Bookreview THE LAST DETECTIVE by Brian Cohn (@briancohnMD) #RBRT A symbiosis of the genres of the noir detective novel and science-fiction with a hero with a dark-sense of humour and a heart

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Hi all: Today I bring you another of the books I’ve reviewed as part of Rosie’s Book Review Team. And it’s a fabulous one. The Last Detective by Brian Cohn It’s been two years since the invasion. Two years since the slicks came to our planet and herded humanity together like cattle, placing us under constant watch
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#Bookreview As Wings Unfurl by Arthur M. Doweyko (@aweyken) A book for readers who enjoy science-fiction that asks big questions, with religious undertones, and lots of action

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Hi all: I’m still trying to catch up on book reviews (not long to go until I can start sharing reviews as I finish books) after my stint as a bookseller at a book fair (I will tell you more about it when I’m feeling more rested, I promise) and this week I have a
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#Bookreview THE DEVIL’S PRAYER by Luke Gracias (@devils_prayer) Several books in one and all compelling and gripping. #amreading

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Hi all: You know I’ve told you I love horror books but somehow I don’t seem to read that many horror books as books in other genres (I’m not sure if they don’t come my way or the marketing bypasses me completely. Perhaps many of them nowadays are in mixed genres like paranormal plus erotica
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#Bookreview THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE by Katherine Arden (@arden_katherine) A magical fairy-tale with a touch of the classics

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Hi all: I thought we could finish the week with a bit of magic. I’ve noticed that some readers find the book depressing, but I love fairy tales and the best are a bit dark…. The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden ‘Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories,
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#Bookreview In The Shadow of David (The Secret Rebellion Book 1) by Martin Baggen (@MartinBaggen) Some things never change #TuesdayBookBlog

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Hi all: I hope you’re enjoying the holiday season. I’m sharing some reviews I realised I’d accumulated, as I want to take a bit of time to think about the blog, but wanted to have featured most of the reviews before that, although I’ll carry on with reviews for sure. Today I come to share
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#Bookreview THE TAKEN. DI ERIKA MARTIN book 2 by Alice Clark-Platts (@aclarkplatts) British policing and a dark and twisted family

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Hi all: Today a British thriller that doesn’t take place in one of the big cities, but funnily enough it’s in an area where I spent some time working, a wonderful part of the country, and I love Durham Cathedral… The Taken. DI Erica Martin Book 2 by Alice Clark-Platts. Penguin UK – Michael Joseph Description
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#Bookreview HERE I AM by Jonathan Safran Foer. Family, nation, religion, identity and writing with an inimitable style. And authors answer the question, What does your writing look like?

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Today I bring you both a new book and a review. I’d been curious about this writer for a while and this is one of the few reviews where I’ve got feedback on the review itself in Amazon (at first somebody complaining about a spoiler, although it is not that kind of novel, and later
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