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Review: Then. Now. Always. by Isabelle Broom

Posted April 21, 2017 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Then. Now. Always. by Isabelle Broom Published by Penguin on April 20th 2017 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads **Pre-order the new novel from Isabelle Broom now!** Hannah can’t believe it when she’s offered a trip to sunny Spain with her best friend and dreamy boss . . . what’s the catch? Twenty-eight year old Hannah is ready for an adventure. She and her colleagues are in Spain for a month to film a documentary, and it’s a dream come true. Not least because Hannah will get to spend long summer days with Theo, her boss (and crush). If only Tom (Hannah’s best friend and cameramen) and Claudette (the presenter) would stop getting in the way… Then things become even more complicated when Nancy, Hannah’s half-sister arrives. What on earth is she doing here? For once in her life, can’t Hannah just have one perfect summer, free of any […]

Review: My Sweet Revenge by Jane Fallon

Posted February 2, 2017 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

My Sweet Revenge by Jane Fallon Published by Penguin on January 12th 2017 Genres: Chick-lit, Fiction, Romance Pages: 416 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads I want to make my husband fall back in love with me. Let me explain. This isn’t an exercise in 1950s wifeydom. I haven’t been reading articles in old women’s magazines. ‘Twenty ways to keep your man’. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I want him to fall back in love with me so that when I tell him to get the hell out of my life he’ll care. He won’t just think, ‘Oh good’. I want it to hurt. Paula has had Robert’s back since they got together as drama students. She gave up her dreams so he could make it. Now he’s one of the nation’s most popular actors. And Paula’s just discovered he’s having an affair. She’s going to remind Robert just what he’s sacrificing. And then she’s going to break his heart like he broke hers. It will be her greatest acting role ever. Revenge is […]

Review: A Year and a Day by Isabelle Broom

Posted November 23, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

A Year and a Day by Isabelle Broom Published by Penguin on November 17, 2016 Genres: Chick-lit, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance Pages: 408 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads A heartwarming and heartbreaking story about love and life in one of Europe’s most romantic cities, Prague. ‘Evocative, will clutch at your heart. Perfect escapism is a winter evening’ Sunday MirrorWelcome to a city where wishes are everywhere For Megan, a winter escape to Prague with her friend Ollie is a chance to find some inspiration for her upcoming photography exhibition. But she’s determined to keep their friendship from becoming anything more. Because if Megan lets Ollie find out about her past, she risks losing everything – and she won’t let that happen again . . . For Hope, the trip is a surprise treat from Charlie, her new partner. But she’s struggling to enjoy the beauty of the city when she knows how angry her daughter is back home. And that it’s all her fault . . . For Sophie, the city has always been a magical place. This […]

Review: The Devil’s Feast by M.J. Carter

Posted October 26, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

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 Devil’s Feast by M.J. Carter Series: The Blake and Avery Mystery #3 Published by Fig Tree (Penguin Books UK) on October 27, 2016 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 368 Format: Hardback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads For lovers of Sherlock, Shardlake and Ripper Street. A hugely enjoyable heart-pounding Victorian thriller- murder, a celebrity chef and a great detective double-act. London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London’s newest and grandest gentleman’s club. A death the club is desperate to hush up. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate, and soon discovers a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and political, simmering behind the club’s handsome façade-and in particular concerning its resident genius, Alexis Soyer, ‘the Napoleon of food’, a chef whose culinary brilliance is matched only by his talent for self-publicity. But Avery is distracted, for where his mentor and partner-in-crime Jeremiah […]

Blog Tour / Guest Post: ‘Blood, sweat and tears – how I moved from fact to fiction’ by MJ Carter, author of The Devil’s Feast

Posted October 24, 2016 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 4 Comments

Today I am delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for The Devil’s Feast by MJ Carter. Below MJ Carter talks about how she came to write thrillers and it just proves no matter what you never have to stick to one genre! ‘How I moved from fact to fiction’ by MJ Carter It was some time in 2010 that I actually thought I was ready to start writing fiction. My second book had come out, a massive tome about the First World War, which took me over six years and nearly finished me off. I wasn’t ready to submerge myself again, I wanted to write something which didn’t involve me fact-checking every half-sentence. I’d been toying with the idea of a detective, a lone working-class, self-educated sceptic for years. I knew exactly where I wanted to put him: in the 1840s, the first years of Queen Victoria’s reign, a fascinating, tumultuous decade of massive change, from horses to railways, from letters to telegraph and lot more besides. I had a whole series of stories for him in my head. The […]

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