Kindle: 496 pagesPublisher: HeadlinePublication date: 28 Feb 2013 ASIN : 075538671X Alluring Anne Boleyn knows she is required to use her charm to her advantage – and secure the status of her family at the Tudor court. She easily captivates the noblemen, most notably Henry Percy, future Earl of Northumberland and, hopeful of her father’s approval,…
Category: 2013
Review – Unbelievable by Jennifer Pickup
Kindle: 320 pagesPublisher: UnboundPublication date: 05 April 2012ASIN: B00WDP9IP8 Neona White is rather extraordinary. The thing is, while she knows that she’s very different from other teenagers, she doesn’t know quite how different…yet. A traumatic incident leaves Neona without the desire to keep living and a fear that she’s not entirely human, and her mother…
Review – The Greatest Love Story of All Time by Lucy Robinson
Paperback: 496 pagesPublisher: Penguin Publication date: 12 April 2012 ISBN-13 : 978-0241952986 It’s Fran’s thirtieth birthday and things are good . . . She’s bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his…
Review – Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Paperback: 563 pages Publisher: Scholastic Publication date: 01 May 2005ISBN13: 9780439709101 One cruel night, Meggie’s father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART– and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about…
Review – Cowboy Take Me Away by Jane Graves
Kindle: 428 pages Publisher: Forever Publication date: 28 April 2013ISBN13: 9781455515196 FIRST LOVE BURNS HOTTER Rainbow Valley, Texas, has always been a refuge for animals, and Shannon North, director of the local shelter, intends to keep it that way. But with donations drying up and more pets in need of a loving home than ever…
Review – The Orpheus Descent by Tom Harper
Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: 01 July 2013 ISBN: 9781444731354 Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy,…
Review – Earthfall by Mark Walden
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens Publication date: 07 July 2012 ISBN: 9781408815663 First Line – “The boy ran down the rain-soaked street, weaving between abandoned cars.” Sam wakes to see strange vessels gathered in the skies around London. As he stares up, people stream past, walking silently towards the enormous ships which emit a…
Review – Midnight in Havana by Peggy Blair
paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Polygon Publication date: 01 July 2013 ISBN-9781846972348 First Line – “Ricky Ramirez’s parents stood on the other side of the door, speaking in hushed tones with the doctors.” “In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn’t yet…
Review – Flu by Wayne Simmons
ebook: 320 pages Publisher: Snowbooks Ltd Publication date: 30 April 2010 ISBN-13: 9781906727192 First Line – “There was a woman screaming in his face.” “There’s a nasty flu going round. An epidemic, they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze, and throw away the tissue. But such simple measures won’t…
Review – Great Bitten – Outbreak by Warren Fielding
ebook: 222 pages Publisher: Iceni Publishing Publication date: 31 Oct 2013 ASIN: B00GBLBCE0 First Line – “I’m not sure how much you really know about British culture and attitudes.” “The UK is infected and Warren is going to be a hero, whether he likes it or not. Life used to be simple; a journalist addicted…