1941 Joy Cooper joins the Civil Defence during WW2, charting the bombs falling on London but gradually her world is eroded as she receives reports of familiar targets… 1974 Joy is required to leave her home but does she have the strength to start yet again…? The Woman With The Map is a dual timeline […]
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Archive for March 2022
Children’s book review: Princess No Knots, by Deborah Dillon and Matt Richards
Long golden hair but not a fan of the hairbrush or comb… Can a magic brush and steely determination help Princess No Knots keep her crown? Princess No Knots is a lovely rhyming book about a little girl who doesn’t like brushing her hair. She is given an ultimatum by her father… This scenario is […]
Murder at the Summer Fete, by Victoria Walters
Crime bookshop owner Nancy Hunter and her grandmother are thrilled that a famous crime author is coming to the Dedley End summer fete. It will be great publicity for their bookshop. But things don’t go to plan when a body is discovered at the fete in the same manner as in the book author Thomas […]
The Stepchild, by Nicole Trope
TRIGGER WARNING: child abuse Three year old Millie goes missing. Her mother Leslie was out shopping and Millie had been left in the care of her 12 year old half sister Shelby. Has Millie run away or been abducted…? The Stepchild is a domestic drama and psychological thriller set in Australia. OMG I could not […]
Don’t Come Looking, by AJ Campbell
Marc O’Sullivan goes to the police, announcing that he is about to disappear and doesn’t want to be found. Eva, his friend, neighbour and a police officer, cannot believe he would abandon his family but and promises his distraught wife that she will unofficially look into his disappearance… Don’t Come Looking is the sequel to […]