Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, by Balli Kaur Jaswal, was an ARC from Net-galley. I was hoping it wasn’t too rude, since this is an MG blog. This is a funny, warm, compassionate mystery and suspense story, but it is also explicit. It
Book Review | The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
We start the new year with the first of a terrific new series – Lockwood & Co by Jonathan Stroud. This was the Great Middle Grade Reads group’s book of October, and I got it at the end of the
Book Review | Saturnalia by Lindsey Davis
I didn’t consciously keep the review of this back, but once I realised I hadn’t posted, and that Saturnalia really should begin on December 17th, it was cinch to delay it right till the day itself! The Blurb It is
Book Review | Holding by Graham Norton
This was one of those NetGalley recommends books, and it took the publishers ages to come back to me after I’d applied for it. It’s a quirky blurb, as I think you’ll agree, and I was drawn to it. I
Book Review | The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
I won a pre-publication paperback of this book as part of a goodie bag from the Writers’ Centre Norwich last October, along with the James Runcie mystery I’m reviewing next month. There’s a short summary of each in the Clean Sweep
Book Review | Trina Bell’s Humming Summer by Silke Stein
Silke Stein is a member of the Goodreads Great Middle Grade Reads group, and offered members this book to review. I loved the blurb, and jumped at the chance. The Blurb Shooting ghost bears?! Twelve-year-old Trina Bell has finally had enough.
Book Review | South by South East by Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz is a very popular kids author in the UK, and I saw a stack of his books in our library when I picked up The Boundless. I picked up this one, largely because of the plaintive message from
Book Review | A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
This is the fourth book in the Ruth Galloway mysteries, and I saw some reviewers found it either difficult to keep track of all these characters or they didn’t want so much back story referring to the previous volumes they’d
Book Review | Dining Out with the Ice Giants by Clare O’Beara
This got onto my list because I read a Goodreads review by one of my friends, and thought I’d like it. I certainly did! Two journalists on a futuristic magazine (zine) are always on the look-out for stories. They are the number
Book Review | The Headmaster’s Cave by D S Allen
This is a Book Review Blitz from Mother Daughter Book Reviews, and I confess it took my eye because I know a D.S. Allen. This is the sort of book he would write if he wrote books. As far as
Book Review | Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl is the son of Lord Fowl who has disappeared, believed dead, and his wife who is currently occupying the attic and in a mental state approaching dementia. Artemis is 12 years old, and a criminal mastermind. He has got
Double Book Review | Betrayal of Trust and Death in a Dacron Sail
I’m still catching up with my book reviews, and these were read before starting the Tackle TBR, although to be fair, neither had been on my TBR for long. Noelle Granger’s Death in Dacron Sail had been on the list
Book Review | Shirley Link and the Treasure Chest by Ben Zackheim
If you’ve read my reviews of the previous Shirley link books: SL and the Safe Case and SL and the Hot Comic (which I reviewed on Goodreads, but seem to have missed on here), you’ll know I really enjoy this
Book Review: Frankie Dupont And The Mystery Of Enderby Manor
Frankie Dupont has a letter in his pocket. It may tell him the result of his PI exam. He so wants to be a PI like his dad. But Dad is away and his cousin Kat has gone missing. Who
Book Blast: The Secret of the Sacred Scarab by Fiona Ingram
I’m a little late with the Book Blast for this title, but the giveaway is still live, so I hope Renee and Fiona don’t mind too much. It’s one I’ve been looking forward to reading for some time, and I