Stunningly Beautiful The Phone Box At The Edge Of The World by Laura Imai Messina is a stunningly beautiful book about grief and love and life. Whilst it is a novel, it has its roots in reality as it is based on the actual phone box at Bell Gardia in Japan. There is nothing magical […]

Step Out In Faith The Caterpillar And The Butterfly by Michael Rosenblum is a beautiful story for early readers. It has a powerful message about not letting fear rule our lives but to step out in faith and try new things. The book is perfect to read to young children or for early readers to […]

Beautiful So How Will You Sleep?  by Annabel Gardiner is an absolutely beautiful book and just perfect for young children. Each page explores how different animals’ sleep. With simple rhyme and repetition, it is a book that will encourage children to join in with the words. As older children follow along, the repetition will help […]

Powerful And Horrifying The German Wife by Debbie Rix is a powerful historical novel that consumed me from the start. As the title suggests, the reader follows the German wife from the 1930’s, through the war years and just beyond before leaping forwards to 1984. It is a powerful read as we witness a character […]

Highly Amusing Don’t Worry He Doesn’t Bite by Liam Mulvin is a highly amusing account of a West Country postman and the people and places he has encountered over the years. Each story is a bitesize chunk of just a single page. I enjoyed all the stories, some definitely had me laughing out loud, and […]

The Road To Redemption Escaping Pretense by Deborah Jean Miller is a powerful contemporary novel about love and life and family. I absolutely adored it. Everyone deserves to be loved – but within the book we meet a character who doesn’t think this applies to her. Every time someone gets close to her, she pulls […]

Thrilling And Tense Munich by Robert Harris is a marvellous historical political thriller that gripped me from the start. It is a work of fiction but very much grounded in fact as it surrounds the Munich Agreement of September 1938, and the infamous ‘peace for our time’ from Chamberlain. On the surface all is polite […]

So Beautiful Before We Grow Old by Clare Swatman is a simply beautiful dual timeline novel that you definitely need to have the tissues nearby. This is a love story. It is a life story. And it is a loss story. This story is about loving and living well, and about grieving. Life is for […]

Powerful And Heartbreaking People Like Us by Louise Fein is a powerful and heartbreaking historical novel. It consumed me as I read. Louise Fein grounded her novel in fact which makes it all the more powerful and shocking. The novel is set in Leipzig in the 1930’s. It is told in the first person from […]

Powerful Like Him by Julia Stevens is a powerful Christian nonfiction book that will aid your walk of faith. It is full of scripture, poems, prayers, sound biblical advice and the author’s personal experiences. Julia Stevens writes in a very personable way, making Like Him accessible for all. She explains some of the biblical happenings […]