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The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gillmore @GilmoreLau27606 @IndieThinking @HarperCollinsUK #TheStrawberyPatchPancakeHouse #LaurieGilmore #DreamHarbor – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: As a world-renowned chef, single dad Archer never planned on moving to a small town, let alone running a pancake restaurant. But Dream Harbor needs a new chef, and Archer needs a community to help raise his daughter, Olive. Iris has never managed to hold down a job for more than a few months. So when…
Two For Tuesday: Reece’s Book Club #Isola #CityOfNightBirds #TwoForTuesday – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday. I'm a big fan of Reese's Book Club and always look forward to seeing what she'll choose as they are often books I've not heard of. Pictures are two books she's featured recently that I still need to read! 💚Isola by Allegra Goodman❤️City Of Night Birds by Juhea Kim…
Warm Weather Orange Stack #NewBooks #BookPost #tbr – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good afternoon everyone and happy Saturday. I seem to have collected a few orange books recently so I thought I'd put them together as a warm weather stack in appreciation for the lovely sunny weather we've been having! 🧡In The Weeds by B.K Borison🧡One Day by David Nicholls🧡The Sun Blessed Prince by Lindsey Byrd🧡Sunstruck by…
Two For Tuesday: Laura Wood @BookMinxSJV @simonschusterUK @SimonSaysBooks #TwoForTuesday #LetsMakeAScene #UnderYourSpell #LauraWood – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone! Today on Two For Tuesday I'm featuring two books from Laura Wood. 💚 Under Your Spell❤️ Let's Make A Scene As I might have mentioned a few times (ok a lot) I was a huge fan of the fantastic Under Your Spell. It was such a brilliant book that after listening to…
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon @FigTreePenguin @PenguinUKBooks @IndiesAbout #GloriousExploits #FerdiaLennon – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON: visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO: lovesick, jobless, in need of a distraction.Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the thinnest of threads.They’re fading in the baking heat, but not everything is lost: they can still recite lines from Greek tragedy when tempted…
#BookSpotlight: Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine @victoriaalavine @ZaffreBooks #AnyTropeButYou #VictoriaLavine #RomanceBook #RespectRomFic – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good evening everyone I hope you've had a good day. I was so excited to receive some fabulous book post this week. A copy of one of my most anticipated romance reads Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine and some lovely goodies. This sounds absolutely amazing and I'm really looking forward to reading it.…
#BlogTour: Tea You At The Altar by Rebecca Thorne @panmacmillan @UKTor #TeaYouAtTheAltar #RebeccaThorne #TomesAndTea – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: A wedding should be fun . . . right? The Princess Bride meets Travis Baldree in Tea You at the Altar, the third cosy fantasy in Rebecca Thorne's bestselling Tomes & Tea series. Our sapphic adventurers must navigate the ultimate maelstrom – their own wedding!Kianthe and Reyna are finally ready to walk down the aisle. This feels…
Thriller Thursday: Six Thrillers Soon! #NewBooks #ReadingSoon #Thrillers #ThrillerThursday #tbr – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Thursday. I'll be honest but I couldn't think of what to post today so I thought I'd show some of the thrillers I'm looking forward to reading soon. ❤️The Einstein Vendetta by Thomas Harding🧡The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen💛The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha💚The Strange Case Of Jane O by Karen…
#BookSpotlight: The Rush by Beth Lewis @bethklewis @mirandajewess @ViperBooks #TheRush #BethLewis #NewBook – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good evening everyone I hope you've had a good Thursday. I was lucky enough to receive a copy of The Rush by Beth Lewis recently. I'm a huge fan of historical fiction, especially if it's set on a period of history I know nothing about. This takes place during the Canadian Golf Rush which I've…
Two For Tuesday: Tomes For Tea by Rebecca Thorne @panmacmillan @UKTor @PanMacPinboard #TwoForTuesday #NewBooks #TomesForTea #RebeccaThorne – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good evening everyone I hope you've had a good day. Today on Two For Tuesday I'm featuring two books from the fantastic Tomes For Tea series. 💜You Can't Spell Treason Without Tea❤️Tea You At The Altar There's actually three books in the series but I couldn't find my copy of the second book sadly. This…
The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya @dylanthomprize @midascampaigns @wnbooks #BlogTour #BookReview #TheHypocrite #DylanThomasPrize – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone I'm on the blog tour for The Dylan Prize longlist today and I have my review of The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya to share with you. The Hypocrite is one of 12 books to make the longlist before the shortlist is announced tomorrow which is very exciting. You can find out more…
Spring Weather Stack! #BookStack #NewBooks #Tbr #Spring – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Monday. Spring is one of my favourite seasons and I've been loving the sunny days we've started to get this month so I had to do a stack to celebrate! 🤍The House With Nine Locks by Philip Gray💛The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley🩵Story Of My Life by Lucy…
When The Cranes Fly South by Liza Ridzén @izzieghaffari @TransworldBooks @DoubledayUK @IndiesAbout @hanwints #WhenTheCranesFlySouth #LizaRidzen #BookReview #FavBookOfTheYear #HighlyRecommend – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday. I have my review of the fantastic When The Cranes Fly South by Liza Ridzén on my blog today. I absolutely adored this book and have been shouting about it ever since I finished reading it. It's easily one of my favourite books ever and I'll be recommending it…
Reading Update: Finishing Two, Starting Another #ReadingUpdate #NewBooks #CurrentlyReading – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good evening everyone I hope you've had a good Monday. I recently finished two very different books. The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gillmore which is the fourth book in the fantastic Dream Harbour series and The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya which has been shortlisted for the Dylan Prize! I enjoyed both of these…
The New Neighbours by Claire Douglas @Dougieclaire @MichaelJBooks@elliejmorley #TheNewNeighbours #ClaireDouglas #NewBook #BookReview – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: Do you trust the couple next door?When Lena overhears a conversation between her next-door neighbours, she thinks she must have misheard.After all, the Morgans are a kind, retired couple who have moved to a suburban street in Bristol where nothing ever happens.But it sounded like they were planning a crime.Her family and friends…
#BlogTour: On Starlit Seas by Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan @HodderBooks @AlainnaGeorgiou #OnStarLitSeas #SaraSheridan – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: Celebrated writer and historian Maria Graham must make the treacherous voyage from Brazil to London to deliver her latest book to her publisher. Having come to terms with the loss of her beloved husband, Maria is now determined to live her life as she pleases, free from the smothering constraints of Georgian society.…
Sunday Stack: Favourite Women Authors! #InternationalWomensDay #FavWomenAuthors #NewBooks #Tbr – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Sunday. As most of you know it was International Women's Day yesterday and cos I'm daft I forgot to post this yesterday so I'm doing a belated post! Here are some of my favourite women authors: ❤️Laura Wood🧡BK Borison💛Coco Mellors *💚 Claire Douglas *💙 Hannah Grace *🩵Dinah Jeffries💜Tess Gerritsen💟Clare Leslie…
Book Spotlight: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid @JenkinsReid12 @HutchHeinemann @IndiesAbout #Atmosphere #TaylorJenkinsReid #NewBook – Over The Rainbow Blog
Eeek! I was lucky enough to grab this fab book post when it arrived at the book store this week. I've loved previous book by this author so I'm very excited to read this one soon. A lovely story set in space? Sounds amazing! Huge thanks to Hutchinson and All About The Indies for sending…
Women Prize For Fiction Long List 2025 #WomensPrize #LongList #NewBooks #Tbr – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Thursday. As you probably know The Woman's Prize For Fiction Long List was announced this week. ❤️Good Girl by Aria Aber❣️The Ministry Of Time by Kaliane Bradley🧡 Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches💛Amma by Saraid de Silva💚 Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings💙All Fours by Miranda July🩵The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami💜…
Book Review: The Siren by Emilia Hart @EmiliaHartBooks @BoroughPress @IndieThinking #TheSirens #EmiliaHart #BookReview #HighlyRecommended #5Stars – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: 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 cliff-top house, Jess is gone. Lucy is now alone, in a strange town steeped in rumour. Stories of men disappearing without…
Three For Tuesday: Rachel Gillig @Madeleine_CH @AuthorGillig @orbitbooks #ThreeForTuesday #RachelGillig – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday. Today on Three For Tuesday I'm featuring three books by Rachel Gillig. 💙One Dark Window💜Two Twisted Crowns🩷The Knight And The Moth I'm currently doing a read along for One Dark Window organised by the lovely @rachel_loves_to_read and I'm really enjoying it so far even though I'm a bit behind…
#BookSpotlight: Cleopatra by Natasha Solomon @natashasolomons @ZaffreBooks #Cleopatra #NatashaSolomon – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good evening everyone I hope you've had a good day. I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Cleopatra by Natasha Solomon recently. I was a huge fan of Fair Rosaline and actually chose it as a book club read for the book club I run. I also have a fascination with anything to…
Not So Blue Monday Stack! #YellowStack #SunshineStack #Tbr #NewBooks – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Monday. I saw this on the lovely @bookstarreviews_ 's page and knew I had to join in as it's been so lovely to see the sun the last few days! 💛The Stranger In Room Six by Jane Corry💛The Forgotten Book Club by Kate Storey💛Sun Trap by Rachel Wolf💛This Book Will…
#BlogTour: The Woman With All The Answers by Linda Green @LindaGreenisms @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources #TheWomanWithAllTheAnswers #LindaGreen – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: Alexa knows your family better than you do. Now you're about to get to know her... Fifty-two-year-old Michelle Banks is struggling to keep all the plates spinning. She’s a perimenopausal district nurse, caring for elderly parents. Her husband is wasting their money on children’s TV memorabilia, her teenage daughter is riddled with anxiety…
#BlogTour: The Great Western Railway Girls by Jane Lark @JaneLark @rararesources @BoldwoodBooks #TheGreatWesternRailwayGirls #JaneLark #ww2 – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: September, 1939. When war is declared, Lily sees an opportunity to escape her domineering father: she will join the Great Western Railway factory to win her financial independence and move out of home. Maggie doesn’t want to simply follow in her sisters’ footsteps and work in the laundries at the GWR. So, when the chance comes…
Fantasy Friday: Four Books Soon @IndieThinking @HarperVoyagerUK @EMTeenFiction #FantasyBooks #BooksSoon #Tbr – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Friday. I'm a huge fan of fantasy books and always love exploring the fabulous worlds the author has created. Here are four fantasy books I'm hoping to read soon. Before I tell you what the books are I'm wondering if you can guess the books from their front covers? Huge…
#BookSpotlight: Say Nothing by Erin Kinsley @KinsleyErin @headlinepg @IsabelleHPG #SayNothing #ErinKinsley #TimesThrillerOfTheMonth #Thriller #PublicationDay – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Thursday. I wanted to do a book spotlight for Say Nothing by Erin Kinsley as it's publication day for this intriguing read today. I'm a huge fan of this author and I've loved her previous books. She writes incredibly gripping, emotional thrillers which are very hard to put down so…
Book Review: Little Red Death by AK Benedict @ak_benedict @simonschusterUK @SimonSaysBooks#LittleRedDeath #AKBenedict #BookReview #FiveStars – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: ONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOU'VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE . . . DI Lyla Rondell is on the case of a lifetime. Tasked with investigating a series of perplexing deaths, the only lead she has is that each appears to be based on a different classic fairy tale. Far from the stuff of…
Two For Tuesday: Gothic Historical Fiction @4thEstateBooks @IndieThinking @DoubledayUK @IndiesAbout #VictorianPsycho #VirginiaFeito #CarrionCrow #HeatherParry #GothicReads – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday. Today on Two For Tuesday I'm featuring two Gothic Historical books I'm excited to read soon. 💚 Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito🖤 Carrion Crow by Heather Parry They both sound really good and I've been hearing lots of good things about them. As I was discussing with someone recently…
Six Books Soon! #NewBooks #Tbr #SixBooksSoon #TbrSoon – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Friday. Here are six books I'm hoping to read soon! ❤️The New Year by Claire Douglas🧡 Spiral by Bal Khabra💛Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven💚The Sirens by Emilia Hart💙 Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley💜The Woman In The Wallpaper by Lora Jones I'm a huge mood reader and often change my…
Book Review: Collide by Bal Khabra @BloomsburyBooks #BookReview #Collide #BalKhabra #OffTheIce #RomanceBooks #RespectRomFic – Over The Rainbow Blog
Book Synopsis: Collide is the first book in the Off the Ice seriesThe second novel, Spiral, is out now and the third, Revolve, will be out in October. You can pre-order Revolve now.'Equal parts spicy and sweet' Peyton Corinne, author of UnsteadyWhen Summer Preston's professor issues her with an ultimatum, she finds herself on an unexpected collision course with hockey…
Finishing One, Starting Another #CurrentlyReading #JustFinished #LittleRedDeath #TheSirens @ak_benedict @EmiliaHartBooks @BoroughPress @IndieThinking @simonschusterUK @SimonSaysBooks – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Saturday . I'm taking inspiration from the lovely @nothing.beats.a.good.book for this post as I've actually managed to finish a book in half term! I've just finished Little Red Death which I really enjoyed. It was a lot darker than I expected and that twist at the end?! So good! Full…
How My Blog Has Changed Over The Years #BookBlogger #BookReviewer #BookLove – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Sunday. There's a challenge going around Instagram at the moment to show how your Instagram has changed over the years and I thought it might be interesting to do it for my blog too. Starting Out I starting blogging nearly ten years ago as something for me to do for…
Thriller Thursday Book Post! @BarnabyMartin @FionaAnnCummins @panmacmillan @chlodavies97 #TheQuiet #BarnabyMartin #SomeOfUsAreLiars #FionaCummins #ThrillerThursday – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good afternoon everyone and happy Thursday. Here are two fabulous books books I've been lucky enough to receive recently! 🖤 The Quiet by Barnaby Martin 💙 Some Of Us Are Liars by Fiona Cummins Fiona is one of my favourite thriller authors and I've been hearing lots of great things about The Quiet so I'm…
Pink & Red Stack! #NewBooks #bookpost #PinkAndRed #BookStack – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Wednesday. I've received a few red and pink books recently so wanted to share a stack with a few of them in. 🩷 Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell❤️ Dream Girl Drama by Tessa Bailey🩷Love & Other Paradoxes by Catriona Silvey❤️ Let's Make A Scene by Laura Wood🩷The Midnight Clock by Jamie…
#BookSpotlight: The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater @mstiefvater @headlinepg @RosieMargesson #TheListeners #MaggieStiefvater #OutJune2025 – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good afternoon everyone I hope you're having a good Wednesday. I was absolutely thrilled to receive The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater through the post today. It sounds absolutely fantastic, historical fiction set in ww2 with a touch of supernatural atmosphere? Yes please! Huge thanks to the lovely Rosie from Headline Books for sending this to…
#BlogTour: Careful What You Hear by Helen Dunlap Newton @helendnewton2 @York_publishing @rararesources #CarefulWhatYouHear #HelenDunlapNewton – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good evening everyone and happy Thursday. I'm on the blog tour for Careful What You Hear by Helen Dunlap Newton today and I have an exciting extract to share with you. This book sounds really intriguing and I'm going to get a copy for my daughter to read as I think she will enjoy it.…
Two For Tuesday: Mizuki Tsujimura @DoubledayUK @PenguinUKBooks @IndiesAbout #LonelyCastleInTheMirror #LostSoulsMeetUnderAFullMoon #MizukiTsujimura – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday. Today on Two For Tuesday I'm featuring two books by Mizuki Tsujimura. I'm a huge fan of Japanese translated fiction and I've been hearing lots of great things about this author. I've not actually read either of these but bought Lonely Castle In The Mirror as I thought it…
#BookSpotlight: This Love by Lotte Jeffs @dialoguepub #ThisLove #LotteJeffs – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good evening everyone I hope you've had a good Monday! I was very excited to get a copy of This Love by Lotte Jeffs this week. I loved One Day so I'm very intrigued by the comparison to this book,plus it looks like it's been recommended by the lovely Nina from Prima so I know…
Books To Read If You Liked Onyx Storm! @IndieThinking @HarperVoyagerUK @panmacmillan @PanMacPinboard @UKTor @RossiterBooks @bookshop_org_UK – Over The Rainbow Blog
Good morning everyone and happy Monday. If you saw my post on Twitter the other day you'll already know that one of the book lists I created for Rossiter Books has made the front page of the Bookshop .org website which is really exciting! The list I created were books I recommend reading if you…