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I found this an immediately engaging, easy to read and page-turning story. Having read ‘Charles...
I’ve read all of Lionel Shriver’s novels and, as I always eagerly anticipate publication of her...
By the time I’d finished reading this collection of dark and often extremely disturbing short...
In a conversation he has with Shosh, Evan tells her: “There’s truth in every story. Even the...
Through the voices of not only her trio of main characters, but each of her subsidiary characters...
As I'm always fascinated by the reverberating effects down the generations of long-held family...
Having read the author's first two moving and thought-provoking novels, each dealing with a...
The author's personal history (abandoned on the steps of an orphanage when she was a baby, the...
The opening exchange of text messages between Dani and someone she doesn’t know, but who clearly...
Given the deeply-disturbing and harrowing themes of this novel, plus the warning from the...
As this is the fourth book in the DS Max Craigie series and I hadn’t read any of the earlier...
The book’s bright colours and remarkably-detailed illustrations are immediately eye-catching and...
I need to start this review with a confession! Apart from the fact that I’m many decades beyond...
This enjoyable, fast-moving story of the exploits of three thirteen-year-old friends, who join...
In spite of being several decades older than Andy Jones’ target readership, I found this a hugely...
In an interview she gave about what had inspired her to write The Marvellers, the author shared...
I can imagine that younger children will enjoy browsing through this wonderful book with an adult...
With its bright and colourful Christmas-themed illustrations of five little penguins having fun...
In the first half of this dual-timeline, thought-provoking story I loved how the author combined...
The combination of a simple rhyming-narrative thread and beautiful illustrations in this...
I think most children of primary school age are fascinated by magicians and magic tricks and so I...
Before reading Jess Kidd’s enthralling story I hadn’t heard of the Batavia’s doomed maiden...
As soon as I read the publisher’s synopsis, I realised that this was likely to be a story I’d...
The author’s use of quite short, pacy chapters made it easy to quickly feel drawn into this dark,...
It is not only the characters in this chilling, disturbing story who feel haunted but, as the...
As I’d received a free copy of ‘Portable Magic’ in exchange for an honest review, I felt I should...
As someone whose dating experiences happened in a pre-digital world, I’m sure I fall outside the...
Just as the whole country fell in love with Captain Tom when he set himself a challenge for...
Told through Emily’s first-person narrative, there are two main themes which are central to this...
Yara Zgheib’s very moving story follows the fates of Sama and Hadi, a young couple who cling to...
I must admit that for the first few chapters of this novel I did wonder whether I’d be able to...
London, Liverpool, Hull, Manchester, Coventry, Exeter, Plymouth, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow (to...
Although this psychological thriller is told mainly through the alternating narrative voices of...
Although I found there was a certain degree of predictability in the storyline in this family...
This second story in S. J. Bennett’s ‘Her Majesty The Queen Investigates’ series reveals yet...
This multi-layered story begins in 2010, with a homeless twenty-one-year-old man observing a...
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