Powerful The Girl Across The Wire Fence by Imogen Matthews is a powerful historical novel that is an all-consuming read. The action is set in Holland towards the end of World War II in the camp at Amersfoort and the surrounding areas. We witness both the incredible bravery of some and the horrendous cruelty of […]

Entertaining The Wonderland Murders by Mille Ravensworth is a delightfully fun contemporary novel and the first book in A Cosy Craft Mystery series. The tone is light-hearted – think Midsomer Murders meets Death In Paradise – and it is set in a quintessential English town. I pictured it like the Shambles in York. All is […]

Heart Stopping – So Powerful To Dream Of Shadows by Steve N Lee is a powerful historical novel that has its roots in fact. The author has carefully woven his tale, clearly after much research in order to be as accurate as possible. Much of the tale is set in a concentration camp which is […]

Of Love & Compassion A New Year For The Seaside Girls by Tracy Baines is a compelling historical novel that entertained me for a few hours. The novel is set in Cleethorpes in 1940, as a group of variety performers adjust to the start of the war. Some are called up, some sign up for […]

A Beacon Of Hope The Collaborator’s Daughter by Eva Glyn is a compelling dual timeline tale that I read in just one sitting. This is a tale that enthralls, entertains and enchants the reader. It is a tale that blends fact and fiction, educating as you read. Much of the book is set in 2010 […]

Emotionally Draining When We Were Innocent by Kate Hewitt is a powerful and heart breaking dual timeline novel. This is a book that will mess with your emotions as we follow a character through a myriad of emotions as her gentle father is charged with Nazi war crimes. All she has ever known about her […]

Closing The Circle The Forgotten Palace by Alexandra Walsh is a marvellous dual timeline novel that delighted my senses as the past explodes to life. The story links events in 1900 with present day and the dawn of time, as the reader accompanies the characters to an archeological dig in Crete. In both time periods […]

Fascinating A Roman And A Celt by April E Claridge is a fascinating historical novel that consumed me from the start. The novel is a mixture of factual, and happenings from a series of dreams by the author – which she later researched and found to be accurate. The whole novel is woven together seamlessly, […]

Girl Power Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes is a powerful contemporary novel that I just could not put down. The novel is about riches. We see the values that different characters have. The poorest people are those who value power, status and possessions, who don’t care who they trample on in order to get […]

Powerful – May We Never Forget The Boy From Block 66 by Limor Regev is a powerful true tale of Moshe Kessler and his family during World War II. Moshe Kessler was born in an area that kept swapping between being Czech or Hungarian territory. He was born in 1930 and forced to grow up […]