Hope Lives Here Summer’s Out At Hope Hall by Pam Rhodes is the most delightful Christian contemporary novel about community and care. It is the second book in the Hope Hall series. Hope Hall always produces a warm, wrap-around welcome for the reader. It is just like a hug in a book and will leave […]

The Library Fairy And The Book Goblin Hope Between The Pages by Pepper D Basham is a most delightful Christian dual timeline novel. It is part of the Doors To The Past series. The novel is about the love of books that has passed down the generations. We hear about the love stories in present […]

The Familiar Springs To Life Mosaic Life In Pieces by Chris Aslan is a marvellous Christian historical novel that will enthral and consume you. It is set in the Middle East during the time of Jesus and just beyond. Familiar Bible stories spring to life, giving men and women from the Bible fully rounded characters […]

Captivating The Jane Austen Investigates: The Abbey Mystery by Julia Golding is a YA historical novel. The action follows thirteen year old Jane in the late eighteenth century. Our heroine is well drawn. She is a delightful mixture of curious, clumsy and clever. It is in her nature to seek out the answers to mysteries. […]

The Deepest Pit The Good German Girl by Erica Marie Hogan is a very powerful historical novel that will consume you as you read. The novel is set in 1944 alternating between the voices of an American soldier and a German girl. The reader travels from Omaha beach eastwards and from Berlin to Auschwitz. An […]

The Greatest Gift These Tangled Vines by Julianne MacLean is the most delightful dual timeline novel about love and family. The novel is set in 1986 and 2017 and is seen through the eyes of a mother and her daughter. There have been secrets kept but now it is time to learn the truth about […]

Seeking The Lost Circumvent by S.K. Derban is a contemporary Christian suspense that will intrigue you and keep you guessing. The characters are well drawn and realistic. The setting is exotic in Hawaii moving to Lyon in France. With comprehensive descriptions we can view the scenes in our mind’s eye. We witness that even when […]

Secrets And Lies The Therapist by B.A. Paris is a marvellous contemporary psychological thriller that had me gripped from the start. The novel is written in the present but there are also voices from the ‘past’. I tried to work out whose they were but failed miserably (again!) As a new resident moves into the […]

Secrets And Lies The Wild Girls by Phoebe Morgan is a compulsive psychological suspense that I just could not put down and I read it in just one sitting. The reader is aware from the start that something has happened in the past to destroy a close friendship of four girls. As the novel begins, […]

Unique And Horrifying Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey is a heart wrenching historical tale that looks at the Holocaust in a different way. The book alternates between four voices – the former camp commandant in 1954 looking backwards, his wife in the form of an imaginary diary, a Jewish doctor writing to his daughter in […]