The Feel-Good Factor No Ex Before Marriage by Portia MacIntosh is a really fun contemporary novel that will leave you smiling. The novel is about love and life, friendships and family, relationships and road trips as we follow a group of thirty somethings who have been friends since school. There have been marriages and a […]

Survivors Out Of The Mountain’s Shadow by Rose Alexander is a fabulous dual timeline novel that makes for compulsive reading. It is set in 2019 and World War II in Albania. The stories run side by side as a present day journalist begins to unlock a story from the hidden past. During World War II […]

Hard Choices And Sacrificial Love The Seven Day Resurrection by Chevron Ross is a powerful Christian contemporary novel that intrigued and consumed me from the start. There were times when, along with the character, I did not understand what was happening but suddenly my eyes were opened in a ‘wow!’ moment – and I understood […]

Beautiful Your Words Your World by Louise Belanger is a most beautiful book of poetry about us and God, and the world that He created. Each poem is accompanied by a stunning photo from nature that is so very beautiful. We marvel at the natural world that God has created. God created us to live […]

In Memory Of The Six Million Always Remember Your Name by Andra and Tatiana Bucci, translated by Ann Goldstein is a powerful true account of the sisters’ survival as children in Auschwitz. Tatiana was born in 1937 and Andra in 1939 to Catholic Jewish parents in Italy. They entered Auschwitz with their mother on April […]

Serenely Beautiful And Soothing Rabbit And Bear Make A Wish by Tara Shannon is the most beautiful and heartfelt book that will cause you to pause and reflect on what is most important in life. The book has always been a dream of the author’s and arose from grief. Rabbit questions the world, whilst Bear […]

Timeless Beauty The Memory Garden by Rachel Hore is a delightful dual timeline novel set about 1914 and 2007 in Cornwall. Both time periods are linked by a house and garden, and a love of painting. In present day there is a research project into the painters of Newlyn. In the past we meet some […]

Wartime Life Perfectly Captured The War Girls Of Goodwill House by Fenella J Miller is a marvellous historical novel set at the beginning of World War II. War brings changes. Large traditional family homes need to be used to accommodate those in the services. Cold, empty mansions spring back to life in the midst of […]

Never Too Old The Age Of Misadventure by Judy Leigh is a really fun contemporary novel, delightfully composed that had me laughing out loud throughout – not one to read in public! The novel is about family and female companionship. Normal but isolated lives are suddenly interrupted as an eighty eight year old accompanies her […]

Wow – So Powerful Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult is a powerful contemporary novel opening in March 2020 and moving forwards as the world dealt with the COVID pandemic. Jodi Picoult focuses in on a couple, who are a microcosm for the experiences of many. Living in New York City, a doctor finds […]