Source: Review copyPublication: 20th February 2020 from VikingPP: 352ISBN-13: 978-0241384077 One summer morning, a flight takes off from New York to Los Angeles. There are 192 passengers aboard: among them a young woman taking a pregnancy test in the airplane toilet; a Wall Street millionaire flirting with the air hostess; an injured soldier returning fromContinue reading “Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano @napolitanoann @VikingBooksUK #DearEdward”
Category Archives: Literary Fiction
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende @isabelallende @BloomsburyBooks
Source: Review copyPublication: 21 January 2020 from BloomsburyPP: 336ISBN-13: 978-1526615909 September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – andContinue reading “A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende @isabelallende @BloomsburyBooks”
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton @Rosamundlupton @EllieeHud @VikingBooksUK #ThreeHours
Source: Review copyPublication: 9th January 2020 from VikingPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-0241374498 Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds. It is a morning’s lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods. It is an eternity waiting for news. Or a countdown to something terrible. It is 180 minutes to discover who youContinue reading “Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton @Rosamundlupton @EllieeHud @VikingBooksUK #ThreeHours”
Pine by Francine Toon @FrancineElena @Doubledayuk @emma_a_paterson @annecater
Source: Review copyPublication: 23 January 2020 from DoubledayPP: 336ISBN-13: 978-0857526700 They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men. Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When aContinue reading “Pine by Francine Toon @FrancineElena @Doubledayuk @emma_a_paterson @annecater”
On the Up by Alice O’Keeffe @AliceOKeeffe @CoronetBooks @JennyPlatt90 #OnTheUp
Source: Review copyPublication: 14 November 2019 from CoronetPP: 336ISBN-13: 978-1529303353 By reading Style magazine, I was training myself not to want things. It was going quite well. I had already found that I did not want a pair of Yves Saint Laurent mules, a chandelier made from plastic antlers, or a diamond-encrusted necklace in theContinue reading “On the Up by Alice O’Keeffe @AliceOKeeffe @CoronetBooks @JennyPlatt90 #OnTheUp”
Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver @will_carver @orendabooks @annecater #NothingImportantHappenedToday
Source: Review copyPublication: 14 November 2019 from Orenda Books PP: 287ISBN-13: 978-1912374830 Nine suicides One Cult No leader Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that morning, a pre-written suicideContinue reading “Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver @will_carver @orendabooks @annecater #NothingImportantHappenedToday”
Bearmouth by Liz Hyder @LondonBessie @PushkinPress @EmmaFinnigan #Bearmouth
Source: Review copyPublication: 19th September 2019 from Pushkin PressPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1782692423 It only taykes one person to start a revolushun Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labour, the sunlit world above the mine a distant memory. Reward will come in the next life with the benevolence of the Mayker. New accepts everything – thatContinue reading “Bearmouth by Liz Hyder @LondonBessie @PushkinPress @EmmaFinnigan #Bearmouth”
Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver @will_carver @orendabooks #NothingImportantHappenedToday #Orentober
Source: Review copyPublication: e-book 14 September 2019 from Orenda Books. Paperback 14 November 2019PP: 287ISBN-13: 978-1912374830 Nine suicides One Cult No leader Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post thatContinue reading “Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver @will_carver @orendabooks #NothingImportantHappenedToday #Orentober”
The Confession by Jessie Burton @picadorbooks @greenkatie @
Source: Review copyPublication: 19th September from PicadorPP: 462ISBN-13: 978-1509886142 One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows Connie to LA, a city of strangeContinue reading “The Confession by Jessie Burton @picadorbooks @greenkatie @”
Looker by Laura Sims @ljsims50 @bookish_becky @TinderPress
Source: Review copyPublication: 25 July 2019PP:182ISBN-13: 978-1472258809 The Professor lives in Brooklyn; her partner Nathan left her when she couldn’t have a baby. All she has now is her dead-end teaching job, her ramshackle apartment, and Nathan’s old moggy, Cat. Who she doesn’t even like. The Actress lives a few doors down. She’s famous andContinue reading “Looker by Laura Sims @ljsims50 @bookish_becky @TinderPress”
