Golden Son by Pierce Brown…and you thought it couldnt get better.

Publication Date: 1st January 2015 from Hodder and Staughton UK/Random House Del Ray US. Source: Netgalley Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully… Continue reading

On Strike For Christmas….

Publication Date: Available Now from Piatkus Source: Publisher Review Copy. At Christmas time, it seems as though a woman’s work is never done. Trimming the tree, mailing the cards, schlepping to the mall, the endless wrapping – bah humbug! So this year, Joy and Laura and the rest of their… Continue reading

Debut Novel Spotlight: Ignoring Gravity by Sandra Danby.

Publication Date: Available Now from Beulah Press Source: Author review copy Rose Haldane is confident about her identity. She pulls the same face as her grandfather when she has to do something she doesn’t want to, she knows her DNA is the same as his. Except it isn’t: because Rose… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves….Rebellion by Stephanie Diaz

Publication Date: Feb 10th 2015 from St Martins Griffin Source: Netgalley It’s been seven days since Clementine and Logan, along with their allies, retreated into hiding on the Surface. The rebels may have won one battle against Commander Charlie, but the fight is far from finished. He has vowed to… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves….The Crooked House by Christobel Kent.

Publication Date: 8th January 2015 from Little Brown/Sphere Source: Netgalley Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get: with no ties, no home, a backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar. She’s a nobody; she has no-one and that’s how she wants it.  But once… Continue reading

Dying For Christmas with Tammy Cohen

  Publication Date: Available NOW from Transworld.   So I recently read this terrifically addictive novel and I caught up with Tammy to ask her some deeply insightful questions. Kind of. About the book and about Christmas in general. Here is what she had to tell me. Christmas – the… Continue reading

Spotlight 2015 – The Defence by Steve Cavanagh

Publication Date: 12th March 2015 from Orion Source: Advance Reading Copy The truth has no place in a courtroom. The truth doesn’t matter in a trial. The only thing that matters is what the prosecution can prove. Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer…. Continue reading

Author Interview and Review: Daniel Gothard. Friendship and Afterwards.

Interview and Review by Melissa Barnsley Publication Date: Available Now. Four young people are in love – David, Sarah, Ben and Alison – and yet none of them are particularly happy with what their lives have become. The story is about how and why people fall in and out of… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves….All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Publication Date: 8th January 2015 from Penguin Randomhouse UK Childrens Source: Netgalley Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation,… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves…The Life I Left Behind by Colette McBeth.

Publication Date: UK 1st January 2015 from Headline. US 24th February 2015 from St Martins Press Source: Advance Reading Copy. I’m the only one who knows the secrets her friends have hidden, the mistakes the police have made. I’m the only one who can warn her she’s still in danger…. Continue reading