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Archive for August 2021

Death at the Gates, by Katie Gayle

Hapless amateur sleuth Pip Bloom is called upon to go undercover at a private school to investigate exam cheats. But the situation deteriorates when a death occurs at the school fair which is discovered to be murder. Pip finds herself in danger as well… Death at the Gates is the third book to feature the […]

The Secret Diary, by Anna Stuart

  1945, the war has ended and Nancy and her husband Joe leave their military roles to live with his family. Nancy expected to be working but her new family want her to stay home to complete domestic tasks and bear children. Her heart loongs for the value and purpose she felt during the war. […]

Vegan cheese sauce

My mum is the queen of cheese sauces and her cauliflower cheese is one of my favourite thing in the world. Making it wheat free was easy enough but using vegan cheese is very different. My issue is with the texture of the topping not the consistency of the sauce 🙂 Not perfect but definitely […]

The Rainbow, by Carly Schabowski

  TRIGGER WARNING: this book contains violence and war crimes 2015, England: Isla visits her elderly grandparents and discovers a rainbow coloured scarf and a newspaper article in the attic which suggests her grandfather Tomasz fought for the Nazis. He now has dementia and she doesn’t want to upset him so she travels to his […]

Her Previous Self, by Anne Allen

  TRIGGER WARNING: this book contains cot death and domestic abuse. Lucy Stewart moves back to Guernsey following the breakdown of her marriage after her daughter’s tragic death. Her parents abandon her to go on a cruise, leaving Lucy in charge of her elderly grandfather. But she is haunted by a woman’s portrait in her […]