Source: Review copyPublication: 3 January 2023 from Little, BrownPP: 560ISBN-13: 978-0708898888 This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It’s aContinue reading “Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor @littlebrown @lucy_martin20”
Category Archives: Literary Fiction
Dashboard Elvis Is Dead by David F. Ross @dfr10 @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 8 December 2022 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1914585401 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician’s resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Renowned photo-journalist JudeContinue reading “Dashboard Elvis Is Dead by David F. Ross @dfr10 @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours”
So Pretty by Ronnie Turner @Ronnie_Turner @OrendaBooks #OnestoWatch2023
Source: Review copyPublication: 19 January 2023 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1914585593 When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear blisters through the streets like a fever. The locals tell him toContinue reading “So Pretty by Ronnie Turner @Ronnie_Turner @OrendaBooks #OnestoWatch2023”
The Winners by Fredrik Backman (Beartown #3) @Backmanland @SimonSchusterUK
Source: Purchased copyPublication: 4 October 2022 from Simon & SchusterPP: 688ISBN-13: 978-1398516342 This is a small story about big questions. It’s a story about family, community, life. It starts with a storm – and a death. But how does it end? Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to thinkContinue reading “The Winners by Fredrik Backman (Beartown #3) @Backmanland @SimonSchusterUK”
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson @DoubledayUK
Source: Review copyPublication: 28 September 2020 from DoubledayPP: 448ISBN-13: 978-0857526557 My thanks to Doubeday for an advance copy for review 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreignContinue reading “Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson @DoubledayUK”
The Bleeding by Johana Gustawsson trs by David Warriner @JoGustawsson @givemeawave @OrendaBooks
Source: Review copyPublication: 15 September 2022 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1914585265 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Three women Three eras One extraordinary mystery… 1899, Belle Époque Paris. Lucienne’s two daughters are believed dead when her mansion burns to the ground, but she is certain that her girls areContinue reading “The Bleeding by Johana Gustawsson trs by David Warriner @JoGustawsson @givemeawave @OrendaBooks”
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell @TinderPress @PublicityBooks
Source: Review copyPublication: 30 August 2022 from Tinder PressPP: 448ISBN-13: 978-1472223845 My thanks to Tinder Press for an advance copy for review ‘Someone swore that, as a little girl, he once saw you touch a tiger. And that the tiger didn’t harm you, it let you stroke it. It was always said that you hadContinue reading “The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell @TinderPress @PublicityBooks”
The Daves Next Door by Will Carver @will_carver @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 21 July 2022 from Orenda BooksPP: 276ISBN-13: 978-1914585180 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review A disillusioned nurse suddenly learns how to care. An injured young sportsman wakes up find that he can see only in black and white. A desperate old widower takes too many pills andContinue reading “The Daves Next Door by Will Carver @will_carver @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours”
The Measure by Nikki Erlick @nikkierlick @HarperCollinsUk
Source: Review copyPublication: 7 July 2022 from The Borough PressPP: 368ISBN-13: 978-0008491512 My thanks to The Borough Press for an advance copy for review Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like just another morning. You make a cup of tea. Check the news. Open the front door. On your doorstep is aContinue reading “The Measure by Nikki Erlick @nikkierlick @HarperCollinsUk”
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill @SulariGentill @ultimopress
Source: Review copyPublication: 1st June 2022 ebook from Ultimo Press; H/b 15 Sept 2022PP: 266ASIN: B09R41JFYN My thanks to Ultimo Press for an advance copy for review Hannah Tigone, bestselling Australian crime author, is crafting a new novel that begins in the Boston Public Library: four strangers; Winifred, Cain, Marigold and Whit are sitting atContinue reading “The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill @SulariGentill @ultimopress”