by Sharon Guskin (Mantle) ISBN: 978 1 50980679 9 What a captivating and intriguing read. The Forgetting Time caught my attention straight away. The simple description “Noah is four and wants to go home. The only trouble is, he’s already home” pulled me right into the world of Noah and his ‘other’ mother’, Janie. Sharon Guskin […]
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by Rick Riordan (Puffin Books) ISBN: 978-0-141-34242-9 Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer is the first book in Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy from Rick Riordan, the author of the very popular Percy Jackson series. While Percy Jackson has his adventures in the world of the Greek gods, Magnus Chase finds
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by Sinead Moriarty (Penguin) ISBN 9781844883493 Alice and Ben are the perfect couple. They are both doctors, but Ben specialised as a surgeon, whereas Alice sacrificed her career aspirations to be a mother and practices as a GP. They have two daughters and live in London. Everything seems to be going well but Ben feels he
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by Diane Chamberlain (Pan Macmillan) ISBN: 9781250010742 Diane Chamberlain is a novel writing machine. She is a career writer with a calculated ability to establish, nurture and follow each layer in an intricate plot. Her skilled approach to Pretending to Dance has left me an admirer and desirous to consume more of her work. Molly
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The Melody Lingers On by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon and Schuster) ISBN 9781471148538 Parker Bennett has been missing for two years along with millions of dollars from the fund he managed. Anne, Parker’s wife, decides to leave her mansion and move to a smaller place. Glady Harper, a renowned interior designer is asked to decorate pro
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by Sarah Dessen (Penguin) ISBN: 9780141361734 Sydney’s family is falling apart after her brother goes to jail following his latest ‘accident’. She moves schools and feels like a complete outcast at first, as if nothing has changed. She is constantly ignored in her own home, following the disarray surrounding her brother’s troubles. The Chatham family,
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by Tiffany Watt Smith (Welcome collection) ISBN 978 1781251294 Curiosity killed the cat they say, and with that remark I couldn’t help but read this gloriously peculiar and fascinating book. The Book of Human Emotions is an encyclopaedia of feelings from Anger to Wanderlust and dappled in between are words I never knew existed to feelings
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by Stephen Leather (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN978-1-444-73664-9 Black Ops gripped me from the first chapter as we are thrust into the exciting life of the main character, Spider and experience how he deals with revenge, betrayal and danger in an action packed sequence of events. Linking the plots in the book to real life events
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by Andy McNab (Penguin) ISBN: 978-0-5930-7378-0 Andy McNab is a retired, highly decorated British soldier and a best-selling author. Detonator is his 17th thriller starring gun-for-hire Nick Stone. Stone takes on a protection assignment, but the mission changes to one of vengeance after a murder and an attempt on his life. He traverses Europe with
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by Graham Hancock (Coronet) ISBN: 9781444779684 Hancock, famous for his theories about the ancient lost civilisations in Fingerprints of the Gods, has written a sequel. He has travelled extensively, from Turkey to Egypt, Indonesia and Peru to find proof that 12,800 years ago, in the Younger Dryas period, the impact of a comet made the ice
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