Guest Post: ‘A Spoiler-free Introduction to The String Diaries Sequel’ by Stephen Lloyd Jones, author of The String Diaries

Posted July 24, 2014 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments
Guest Post: ‘A Spoiler-free Introduction to The String Diaries Sequel’ by Stephen Lloyd Jones, author of The String Diaries

Today I am delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones. And to entice you I have a Spoiler-free introduction to The String Diaries Sequel. Promise! I loved reading The String Diaries (see my review) and I cannot  recommend it enough! Don’t forget to visit other blog stops along the tour for other great content. Below Stephen explains what to expect of book two in the series which is out later this year! This article, perhaps miraculously, remains spoiler free, the story of The String Diaries and its sequel await your reading pleasure. With the paperback edition of The String Diaries only launching this summer – it may be out by the time you read this – I’m going to assume that you haven’t read it yet. (Please do, though. I’ll be enormously grateful.) That said, how do you write a teaser for a sequel, while avoiding spoilers? If I tell you anything about the characters who appear in the new book, you’ll know that they must have survived the last one. If I tell you much at all, in […]

Review: The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones

Posted July 23, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 4 Comments
Review: The String  Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones Series: The String Diaries #1 Published by Headline on July 17, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 419 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Selected for the Radio 2 Book Club. He has a face you love. A voice you trust. To survive you must kill him. The rules of survival are handed from mother to daughter. Inherited, like the curse that has stalked Hannah and her family across centuries. He changes his appearance at will, speaks with a stolen voice and hides behind the face of a beloved, waiting to strike. Generation after generation, he has destroyed them. And all they could do was to run. Until now. Now, it is time for Hannah to turn and fight. THE NEW NOVEL BY STEPHEN LLOYD JONES IS AVAILABLE NOW – THE SILENCED: A DARK AND GRIPPING THRILLER The String Diaries is […]

Guest Post: ‘The Ten Best Books About Libraries’ by Deborah Harkness, author of The Book of Life, The All Souls Trilogy

Posted July 22, 2014 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments
Guest Post: ‘The Ten Best Books About Libraries’ by Deborah Harkness, author of The Book of Life, The All Souls Trilogy

Today I am delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness with a post about the Ten Best Books about Libraries. Deborah is an author I discovered this year, and it is thanks to book blogging that I was able to read her books – A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night and the epic conclusion in the trilogy The Book of Life. The All Souls Trilogy has become one of my favourite trilogy – it appeals to my love of the historical and reminds me why I love libraries so much. Below, Deborah share her thoughts on the Ten Best Books about Libraries.   In each of these novels, a library plays a starring role. Some are places of wonder and delight. Others provide a venue for solving problems, or are the scene of a crime. And in a few cases the libraries in question are far from ordinary. Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader. A delightful tale about what might happen if the Queen turned to her library for solace and inspiration. A. S. Byatt, Possession. Academic […]

Guest Post: Q&A with Anna Caltabianco, author of The Seventh Miss Hatfield

Posted July 21, 2014 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments
Guest Post: Q&A with Anna Caltabianco, author of The Seventh Miss Hatfield

Today I am delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano. And today I have a Q&A with Anna Caltabiano. I enjoyed reading The Seventh Miss Hatfield (see my review), the debut novel of seventeen year old Anna Caltabiano and I look forward to future novels by Anna as she progresses. Don’t forget to visit other blog stops along the tour for other great content. Q&A with Anna Caltabiano: Tell us a bit about yourself and your book – The Seventh Miss Hatfield 🙂 I was born in colonial Hong Kong to a Japanese mother and an Italian-American father, before moving to Silicon Valley in California. Due to this, Japanese was my first language. I now live in a multi-national tech culture, which probably influences my writing more than I know. The Seventh Miss Hatfield explores a series of firsts–first love, first loss, and the first realization that memories are fragile. When a drop from the Fountain of Youth turns 11 year-old Cynthia immortal, she is forced to take on a new identity as Miss Rebecca Hatfield—the seventh Miss […]

Review: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

Posted July 20, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness Series: All Souls Trilogy #3 Published by Headline on July 15, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Romance Pages: 592 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy’s final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient […]