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The Women by Kristin Hannah #HistoricalFiction based on Fact #Vietnam #BookX #BookTwitter
Author: Kristin Hannah Performed by Julia Whelan Published: February 2024 by Macmillan Audio Category: Historical Fiction based on Fact, War, Vietnam ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words,…
#Extract from Crucial Black by Colin Garrow @rararesources @colingarrow #Thriller #TuesdayBookBlog
Today I'm pleased to share an extract from Crucial Black, for the blog tour organised by Rachel's Random Resources Extract Having carried out a bit of ‘work’ on behalf of Magnus Flood, carpet fitters and part-time villains the McClure brothers have a body to get rid of… Kessock Bridge, Inverness 1:05am They stop the van…
#SundayStills Monthly Colour Challenge #CobaltBlue #Sea #Sky #Scenery
Welcome to this month's Sunday Stills Colour Challenge hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt...and it's Cobalt Blue. Sometimes you can't beat water and sky for beautiful blues. This is a view over Loch Lomond The sky and sea were also beautiful for this visit to the little chapel in the sea. Located on a very small…
One Long Weekend by Shari Low #BlogTour #BookReview @sharilow @rararesources @BoldwoodBooks #NetGalley #TuesdayBookBlog
I'm delighted to be joining the blog tour for One Long Weekend organised by Rachel's Random Resources. My Thoughts One Long Weekend is an engaging and moving story, not least because it was inspired by a very unfortunate incident experienced by the author, explained in the notes before and after the story. Four people with…
#SundayStills ~ Group #Photography #Animals #Floral
Welcome to this weeks Sunday Stills, hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt. This week's prompt is Groups. An impressive grouping of snowdrops at Chirk Castle and a bunch of saxifrage flowers in my garden. My sister and I visited the deer park while spending a week at a holiday cottage in the grounds of Bovey Castle…
#ThrowbackThursday ~ The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor #HistoricalFiction based on fact #LinkParty #51 – May 2-29, 2024.
It’s Throwback Thursday and I’m linking up again with TLC. I think The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter was the first book I read by Hazel Gaynor and I loved it. It was published in September 2018 by Harper Collins. Having visited Northumberland on several occasions and seen the memorial to Grace Darling in St Aidan's churchyard,…
The Physics of Relationships: A Novel by Chas Halpern #ContemporaryFiction #BookReview for #RBRT
Author: Chas Halpern Published by Guernica Editions, November 2023 Category: Contemporary Fiction Lexi is a sixty-year-old widow whose solitary life is thrown into turmoil when a desperate young woman moves in with her, soon followed by the unexpected arrival of her best friend, who has separated from her husband of forty years. The mix of…
#SundayStills ~ #NationalKidsandPetsDay #Dogs
Welcome to Sunday Stills hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt. This week it's in celebration of National Kids and Pets Day which was 26th April. This was my grandson's first Christmas. Very considerately, they both slept while the grownups had a peaceful Christmas dinner. We've had dogs since long before he was born so he's known…
#SpotlightFeature ~ Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney #PaperbackRelease @laurasherlock21 @panmacmillan
Good Bad Girl by best selling author Alice Feeney...now out in paperback! The Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another gripping mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises in Good Bad Girl. Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Twenty years…
Hard To Forgive (A Shade Darker #3) by Georgia Rose #Psychological #DomesticThriller @GeorgiaRoseBook #BookX
Author: Georgia Rose Published: March 2024 by Three Shires Publishing Category: Domestic Thriller, Psychological ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A woman abandoned. Her ex now married. How long will she wait to exact her revenge? Betrayal, birth, and bereavement. Dora Smith had faced it all by the age of twenty. Alone, she tracks down her former lover planning to…
The Hunter (Cal Hooper Book 2) by Tana French #AudiobookReview #NetGalley #Mystery #IrishFiction #TuesdayBookBlog
Author: Tana French Performed by Roger Clark Published on Audible by Penguin Audio in March 2024 Category: Audiobook Review, Mystery, Irish Fiction, Crime Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get…
#SundayStills ~ Celebrating #Earth Day #Landscape #Photography
This week Terri's Sunday Stills prompt is Earth Day, 22nd April 2024 “We are on Earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other.” — Xiye Bastida This time last week we were staying in a lodge on the edge of the Brecon Beacons with friends. These were the views…
#Extract ~ Shadow of the Witch by Colin Garrow #Horror @rararesources @colingarrow
I'm pleased to share an extract from Shadow of the Witch today for the blog tour organised by Rachel's Randon Resources. Extract Following the auction, and his purchase of the books, Cutler visits the offices of a lawyer he knows – one who might be interested in the contents of Doctor Winter’s journals… ‘I believe…
#BlogTour #BookReview ~ Bloodshed On The Boards (A Morwenna Mutton Mystery) by Judy Leigh #CosyMurderMystery @rararesources @judyleighwriter #TuesdayBookBlog
It's my pleasure today to share my review for Bloodshed on the Boards for the blog tour organised by Rachel's Random Resources. My Thoughts Bloodshed on the Boards is the second outing for Morwenna Mutton and the residents of Seal Bay. Morwenna is a lively, eccentric and determined lady in her early sixties. She has…
Spell The Month In #Books ~ April
Spell The Month in Books was originally created by Reviews from the Stacks, and the idea is to spell the month using the first letter of book titles. The Arctic Fury ~ Greer Macallister A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition—and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don’t come back. Eccentric…
The Most Beautiful #Book Places in the World ~ 1000 #Libraries #TuesdayBookBlog
I was intrigued when I was contacted about reviewing this book, which was created and written by Vincent Phan. Chock full of the most beautiful images, which unfortunately I can’t share due to copyright licenses, the book takes the reader on a journey round the world to book stores and the biggest and most incredible…
#SundayStills ~ It’s #Spring #Flowers are beginning to bloom #Gardening #Gardens
Terri's prompt for this week's Sunday Stills is April flowers. I'm cheating a bit and adding some new foliage as well. It may be April but the wind and rain hasn't finished with us yet. Nevertheless, things are beginning to grow in the garden. New leaves appearing on Spiraea, Sorbifolia and Photinia. The Magnolia is…
#ThrowbackThursday ~ The Man From The Broken Hills by Louis L’Amour ~ Western Adventure #AudiobookReview TLC’s #LinkParty #50 – Apr. 4-May 1, 2024.
It’s Throwback Thursday and I’m joining up again with TLC’s Link Party I was in the mood for something different when looking through the new releases on Audible a few years ago. The Man From The Broken Hills narrated by MacLeod Andrews caught my eye. It fit the bill perfectly, although I didn’t realise at the…
Impact Of Evidence ~ A Welsh Borders Mystery by Carol Carnac #BritishLibraryCrimeClassics #CrimeFiction #Mystery @BL_Publishing #TuesdayBookBlog
Author: Carol Carnac My copy was published February 2024 by The British Library, first published in 1954 by Collins. Category: Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Historical ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a calamity has occurred. Old Dr. Robinson, a known ‘menace on the roads’,…
Odd Mom Out by Sandy Day #ContemporaryFiction @sandeetweets#BookReview for #RBRT #TuesdayBookBlog
Author: Sandy Day Published by Beach House Books in January 2024 Category: Contemporary Fiction, Women's Fiction, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ On the night that Trudy Asp discovers her ex is engaged to the same dental hygienist who’s been picking at her teeth for ten years, her daughter, Madison, suddenly announces that she too is getting married, in Europe.…
#SundayStills ~ Urban Scenes #Towns #Photography
Terri's prompt for this week's Sunday Stills is Urban Scenes. Views around Ruthin, a small market town in the Clwydian hills in Denbighshire, North East W££ales. Looking out over Ruthin from the castle. Ripon is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire with a weekly market, medieval streets, a lovely river walk and many individual shops.…
Frank & Red by Matt Coyne #ContemporaryFiction #AudiobookReview @mattcoyney #FridayReads #BookX
Author: Matt Coyne Narrated by James Killeen Published by Wildfire and released on Audible February 2024 Category: Contemporary Fiction, Dealing with Grief, Family Life ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is…
Secrets of the Shell Sisters by Adrienne Vaughan #FamilyDrama #BlogTour #BookReview @adrienneauthor @rararesources #TuesdayBookBlog
I'm delighted to be joining the blog tour organised by Rachel's Random Resources and sharing my review for Secrets of the Shell Sisters My thoughts Nana Morgan is sorting shells with her little granddaughters. The telephone rings. “Will you get that?” she calls to the young woman at the range. “It’s Mrs Fitzgerald.” the young…
#SundayStills ~ #Sunrise…or #Sunset ~ Do you have a favourite? #Nature #Photography
Terri's prompt for Sunday Stills this week is Sunrise or Sunset? Sunrise and sunset can be the most beautiful time of the day. "Sunsets are like God's paintings in the sky." – Unknown. These sunset shots were taken from the same place, the living room window of a previous house, looking out over Llandudno Bay…
Close To Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz Mysteries Book 5) by Anthony Horowitz #CrimeFiction #Mystery #FridayReads
Author: Anthony Horowitz Due to be published on 11th April by Penguin Category: Murder, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Richmond, London . Six attractive houses are tucked away in an exclusive and very upmarket gated Riverside Close. Surrounded by flowers and shrubbery, they're sealed off from the busy main road and the realities of urban life.…
#SpotlightFeature ~ PIERCE by Patrick B. Simpson #PublicationDay #CrimeFiction #Thriller #Debut @Simpson_PatB @ApprenticeHouse #TuesdayBookBlog
I'm delighted to share a spotlight feature for Pierce by Patrick B Simpson on publication day. Introducing Pierce (Apprentice House, 3/12/24), the exciting debut from up-and-coming thriller writer Patrick B. Simpson. Coming in hot with Pierce, Simpson weaves a harrowing mystery of an underdog janitor determined to uncover the killer of a beautiful, young professor he’d…
#SundayStills Monthly Colour Challenge ~ Soothing #Green #Nature #Photography
For this week's Sunday Stills Monthly Colour Challenge Terri has chosen any shade of Green. Green, a mixture of blue and yellow, symbolises among other things, nature, new growth, beginnings, health, rebirth and renewal. "Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The green open spaces of Cumbria. A Pied…
My Darkest Prayer by S.A. Cosby #AudiobookReview #SouthernNoir #MurderMystery #TuesdayBookBlog
Author: S.A. Cosby Performed by Adam Lazarre White Released on Audible: December 2022 Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in…
#SundayStills ~ This week it’s #RainyDays #Weather #Nature
Terri's prompt for this weeks Sunday Stills is something we've had more than enough of lately...rainy days! "Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass…It's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene A couple of years ago it rained so heavily the field behind our house became extremely waterlogged, so much…
#ThrowbackThursday ~ Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves #Scottish Crime Fiction ~ TLC’s #LinkParty #49 – Feb. 29-Apr. 3, 2024
It's Throwback Thursday and I'm joining up again with TLC's Link Party Wild Fire is the 8th, and final, book in Anne Cleeves' excellent Shetland series, published in 2018 by Macmillan. My Thoughts Helena, a well known knitwear designer, her husband Daniel, an architect, and their children, Ellie and Christopher, are recent incomers to Shetland.…
Tears Are Only Water by J. Herman Kleiger #BookReview for #RBRT @jhermankleiger #Mystery #MentalHealth #TuesdayBookBlog
Author: J. Herman Kleiger Published: December 2023 by JAMES KLEIGER PC Category: Mental Health, Medical, Mystery, Crime ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Carmine Luedke, a shy, narcoleptic bookkeeper hides from the world and comforts himself by reciting arcane mathematical equations and proofs. Unable to stay awake during the day, he works through the night balancing the books. But suddenly,…
#SundayStills ~ Having Fun With Photo #Editing #DigitalArt #Photography
Terri's theme for Sunday Stills this week is having fun with photo editing I mostly use Fotor, there are lots of effect options with a sliding scale of intensity. This photo is Alderford lake, a water sports and aqua park, with the Monet Waterlily effect. A blue Himalayan poppy and Penmon lighthouse off the coast…
Stand Up Guy by Nina Kaye #RomanticComedy Set in #Edinburgh #FridayReads #Relationships @NinaKayeAuthor
Author: Nina Kaye Published: January 2024 by Canelo Romance Category: Rom Com, Relationships, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dumped by Instagram post. Not a whiff of a social life. Can it get any worse? After a string of failed relationships - romantic and platonic - Lea’s had enough of watching life happen without her. When she bumps into Shep,…
The Last Lifeboat by @HazelGaynor #HistoricalFiction based on #Fact #NetGalley #TuesdayBookBlog
Author: Hazel Gaynor Published: June 2023 by Berkeley Books Category: Historical Fiction based on fact, WWII ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 940, Kent : Alice King is not brave or daring—she’s happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her…
#SundayStills ~ #Iconic Places and Spaces #Photography #History
For this week's Sunday Stills Terri has chosen the theme of iconic places and spaces. The following are several places of interest I've visited around the UK. January 14th 2024 was the 80th anniversary of the death of Lieutenant Arthur L Brown, a very brave 23 year old American pilot who diverted his Thunderbolt plane,…
#PromoFeature ~ Happy Ever After in Bellbird Bay by Maggie Christensen @MaggieChriste33 #ContemporaryFiction #Romance @rararesources
I'm happy to share a promo for Happy Ever After in Bellbird Bay for the blog tour organised by Rachel's Random Resources It’s been over twenty years since Cass Marshall’s relationship fell apart, and she returned home to Bellbird Bay. Now, although happy with the success of her beachwear business, Cass often longs for someone…
#BlogTour #BookReview ~ Summer of Secrets (A Rosshaven Romance ~ Book 1) by Adrienne Vaughan #Contemporary #IrishFiction @adrienneauthor @rararesources
I'm delighted to be joining the blog tour for Summer of Secrets, organised by Rachel's Random Resources. My thoughts With a cast of wonderfully realised characters and setting, Summer of Secrets transported me to Ireland and Galty House, set in the beautifully described coastal location of Rosshaven. Archie Fitzgerald, legendary actor, has momentous news to…
#SundayStills Monthly Colour Challenge ~ #Red and/or #Pink #Nature #Photography
Terri's choice for February's Monthly Colour Challenge is Red and/or Pink "Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams." Paul Gauguin A pink sunrise Red and pink are two of my favourite colours in the garden...rock rose, the 'fruit' of the strawberry tree, fuchsia and daisy. Two of the impressive rooms in…