So here we go then with my top ten countdown for 2014 – just to be clear, I decided that I wanted to do my Top Ten at the beginning of December each year from now on – because encouraging everyone to buy books for Christmas is, to my mind,… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
Publication Date: March 2015 from Black and White Publishing. Source: Author copy Something happened to Claire and Jo in Black Wood: something that left Claire paralysed and Jo with deep mental scars. But with Claire suffering memory loss and no evidence to be found, nobody believes Jo’s story. Twenty-three years… Continue reading
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
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
Kris Thompson is a veteran of the US Navy and single mother of three. When she’s not knitting scarves, chasing her children around or baking, you’ll find her enjoying a good book or writing down notes for her own upcoming stories. Writing has been a passion for Kris for… Continue reading
Publication Date: January 27th 2015 from Bloomsbury Source: Netgalley Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the fugitives are still missing and she is the most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on… Continue reading
