Another fab middle grade about the pressures of the public eye| Sifa Elizabeth Reads
About the Book: In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award–winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged 16, leaves her home and journeys across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gives birth to a baby girl and leaves her with … Continue reading Book Review: Love Forms by Claire Adam| Theresa Smith Writes
Ingrid and her boyfriend Cory have been together for 11 years. When her sister gets engaged, they decide to take a break to date other people. What follows is a commentary on contemporary dating and the ruts younger millennials find themselves in, a friendship that has always felt like more, and the courage it takes…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
In The Truth is in the Detours, Mara Williams writes a light romance with lovable characters and a life changing road trip.| Armed with A Book
About the Book: Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, … Continue reading Book Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura| Theresa Smith Writes
The Long Prospect is Elizabeth Harrower’s second novel, published in 1958. It is set in a fictional town called Ballowra, which is loosely based on Newcastle. I didn’t get quite the sam…| Theresa Smith Writes
Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared on her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past by moving to the city and climbing the ranks as an…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Page count: 480 pagesRating: 4.5 stars| Malin's Blog of Books
Page count: 384 pagesAudio book length: 9 hrs 17 mins| Malin's Blog of Books
How is our cultural desire for nothingness reflected within the growing depiction of women's mental health issues in literature? The post Woman Seeks Oblivion: ‘Nothingness’ in Contemporary Fiction appeared first on The Culture Sift.| The Culture Sift
The post Book Review: The Italian Flame by Rosanna Ley appeared first on Jera's Jamboree. The Italian Flame is a beautifully told story of love, loss, and the ways we try to make peace with ... Read more| Jera's Jamboree
About the Book: Set against the wild backdrop of an intense heatwave in Europe, this is a story about sibling relationships – what holds a family together and what might fracture it forever. Family is everything, even when it falls apart. There is a heatwave across Europe. Goose and his three sisters gather at the … Continue reading Book Review: The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce| Theresa Smith Writes
Down in the City is Elizabeth Harrower’s first novel, published in 1957. It tells the story of Esther Prescott, a sheltered woman who has grown up wealthy and motherless, who marries a man after only knowing him for two weeks, thus leaving her Rose Bay family home to live in a flat in Kings Cross. … Continue reading Elizabeth Harrower: Down in the City| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley – the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin. But now Colette is back, and nobody knows why.Returning to the community to try and reclaim … Continue reading Book Review: The Coast Road by Alan Murrin| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Charlie, a prime-time radio producer in her early thirties, has always had a big group of friends – until she left her husband, and they all sided with him. Now she finds herself fl…| Theresa Smith Writes
Once again Booker has rolled around. Every year our panel comes together to read and review all the booker nominees and to predict the winners. This year’s longlist will be announced on July …| The Reader's Room
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Vera and Thea are mother and daughter. Vera writes for the internet: she constructs identities and scenarios for brands to cater to the ideal consumer. Yet she also consumes the offerings of the on…| Theresa Smith Writes
Page count: 400 pagesRating: 4.5 stars| Malin's Blog of Books
After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Ariel Price wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone, no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can’t fully answer. The clock is ticking. Ariel is increasingly frustrated and desperate, running out of…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
About the Book: Claire O’Connor’s life has been on hold since she broke up with Tom Morton and moved from cosmopolitan London back home to the rugged West of Ireland to care for her dying father. B…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: In the freezing January of 1989, mother-of-two Birdie Keller wakes to the news she’s been waiting seventeen years to hear: the man who destroyed her life has been freed from jail. B…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry his girlfriend, Audra, a woman as irrepressible as she is spontaneous and fun. But, Graham learns, life with Audra can …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it’s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across…| Theresa Smith Writes
On May 28, it was revealed in an exclusive via Variety that two stars from the Showtime series ‘Yellowjackets’ will co-star in a film adaptation for NYT Bestselling Author Kathleen Glas…| The Booked Shelf
About the Book: Duncan is charming, handsome – and Jane falls in love with him easily. But he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City. Jane sees Duncan’s old girlfriends everywhe…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: ‘Lonely mouth … It’s a Japanese expression. It means, like, you feel like you want to eat something, but you don’t know what it is. You’re looking for …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Broome 2023: when Saskia’s free-spirited mother leaves her a caravan in her will, it doesn’t make sense. Saskia is a schoolteacher, tied to plans and schedules, even if they are beg…| Theresa Smith Writes
Theodore Finch constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, he finds something good that stops him. Violet Markey is aching with grief and struggling to continue on living in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
I've already made a big list of 2025 book releases, but of course I can't fit all of them in one post so here is part two!| colour me read
Welcome to the Blog Tour for The Stranger at the Door by Henry O. Arnold, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! About the Book Title: The Stranger at the Door Series: The Urban Chronicles #2 Author: …| The Becca Files
About the Book: WINNER OF THE 2025 MUD LITERARY PRIZE Missing in every sense of the word, a man walks into the landscape and doesn’t stop. In all weather and across all kinds of terrain, Ingv…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max t…| Theresa Smith Writes
Welcome to the Takeover + Review Blitz for Grandma Ruth Doesn’t Go To Funerals by Sharon Mondragon hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! About the Book Title: Grandma Ruth Doesn’t Go To Funerals Auth…| The Becca Files
About the Book: WINNER OF THE READINGS NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION PRIZE Mary Anne is painfully aware that she’s not a good wife and not a good mother, and is slowly realising that she no longer w…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researche…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: What would you do if you found out you’d been raising another couple’s child – and they’ve been raising yours? Fourteen years ago, Kelsey and Raf Maccioni le…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Giselle escapes to the north Yorkshire village of Hollydale, she doesn’t give much thought to what she might find there. She’s more concerned with what she’s leavin…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: WINNER OF THE 2024 MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditi…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mist…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Caitlin inherits a significant sum of money on her fortieth birthday, she decides to break the habits of a lifetime and throw caution to the winds. She’s about to tell he…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Lucy is running from what she’s done – and what someone did to her. There’s only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister’s desolate cli…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Pe…| Theresa Smith Writes
Welcome to the Takeover + Review Blitz for The Hunted Heir by Jayna Breigh hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! About the Book Title: The Hunted Heir Author: Jayna Breigh Publisher: Kregel Publicati…| The Becca Files
It's time to share my anticipated 2025 book releases, so I made a list of them to share with you all! Get stoked!| colour me read
If this isn’t another example of how terribly behind I am in life.., here ya go 🙃 My Review: Allow me first to say that this book was just another reason why I have put this series down as qu…| The Becca Files
A laugh-out-loud graphic novel with important lessons about pursuing your dreams Thank you so much to TBR and Beyond Tours and Tori Sharp for allowing me to be part of this experience and also providing me with a complimentary copy… Continue reading →| Jenjenreviews
About the Book: He knew there was a cost. He just didn’t know how great it’d be. Gabriel Kelly returned to Russia for one reason—to bury his parents. After ten years in the United States, he hadn’t…| Books Less Travelled
Tall and sharp at fifty-two, Campbell Flynn was a tinderbox in a Savile Row suit, a man who believed his childhood was so far behind him that all its threats had vanished. He had secrets and troubl…| This Reading Life
When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the River Elbe, Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues begin a perplexing investigation. As the murdered men are identified, it bec…| A Little Book Problem
Kristen Petersen is facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children. Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen -- especially when she meets the best man, Josh Copeland. He's funny, sexy, never offended by her mile-wide streak of sarcasm, and always one chicken enchilada ahead of…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Yorkshire, 1979 Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their family Down South. Because of the murders. Leaving Yorkshire and her…| A Little Book Problem
I’ve been struggling with insomnia and winter bugs the last couple of weeks so it was a little touch and go as to whether I would be able to get to book club last night. I’m glad I went…| Dragon Rambles
A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Have you ever read a bo…| This Reading Life
NYT bestseller, Kirkus Prize winner, National Book Award finalist, and Man Booker Prize finalist, A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades,…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Everyone knows Ruby Devereaux’s books. But no one knows her story… until now. From a teenager in wartime England to a veteran of modern-day London – via 1950’s New York, the…| A Little Book Problem
Joy Blackwood has no idea why her French art dealer husband has left a valuable painting to a woman called Robyn Tessier in Ballycove, a small town on the west coast of Ireland, but she is determin…| A Little Book Problem
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and MargotPublisher: Random House UKPub Date: 1 June 2021Genre: Contemporary FictionPanda Rating:(4.5 pandas) 📖 SYNOPSIS Life is short.No-one knows that better than s…| dinipandareads