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Shaz's Book Blog

14.03.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Lost Memories of the Cottage by the Loch by Kennedy Kerr

Reviewed by Emma Crowley When Lottie Fox escapes to the heather-strewn hills of Loch Cameron, she is still heart-sore after the man she thou...

Shaz's Book Blog

11.03.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Extract from The Weekenders by David F. Ross

When I was contacted about taking part in T he Weekenders blog tour, I knew I wasn't in a position to read the latest from David F. Ros...

Shaz's Book Blog

09.03.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Wartime Mother by Lizzie Page

Reviewed by Emma Crowley After her husband died fighting for their country, Winnie is heartbroken, reeling, and suddenly solely responsible...

Shaz's Book Blog

07.03.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : World Book Day Giveaway: Win a mini book tote bag & £10 National Book Token

Today is World Book Day so it seemed only fitting to do a giveaway for this cute mini World Book Day tote bag that I found on Temu (I actual...

Shaz's Book Blog

25.02.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: A Santorini Secret by Rose Alexander

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Present day. Single mother Carrie arrives on the sun-drenched island of Santorini, her adored uncle Sol’s tattered ...

Shaz's Book Blog

19.02.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Dreams of the Scottish Highlands by F. L. Everett

Reviewed by Emma Crowley In desperate need of a fresh start after a recent heartbreak, Cat Hardwick leaves her life in the city behind and t...

Shaz's Book Blog

19.02.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Promise She Made by Julie Hartley

Reviewed by Emma Crowley England, 1942. On a dark night of the Blitz, Ruby returns to her beloved hometown with her heart shattered. Tears ...

Shaz's Book Blog

19.02.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Girl Who Saved Them by S.E. Rutledge

Reviewed by Emma Crowley 1944, Germany. Louise struggles down from the cattle car, stumbling on the platform as guards shout harsh threats t...

Shaz's Book Blog

03.02.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Little Island Flower Stall by Tilly Tennant

Reviewed by Emma Crowley When Bella’s heart is broken by her cheating husband, she packs a bag and escapes to the little island of Jersey, ...

Shaz's Book Blog

02.02.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Secrets of Foxglove Cottage by Rebecca Alexander

Reviewed by Emma Crowley When Zosia arrives at Foxglove Cottage holding her small son’s hand in hers, she is desperate for a new beginning. ...

Shaz's Book Blog

01.02.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Girl Who Never Gave Up by Kate Hewitt

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Germany, 1939: When Rachel Blau’s husband Franz is released from Dachau, she barely recognizes the man she married....

Shaz's Book Blog

28.01.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Family Behind the Walls by Shari J. Ryan

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Poland: Day in and day out, fifteen-year-old Jordanna holds tight to the hands of her siblings as they’re forced in...

Shaz's Book Blog

23.01.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Train that Took You Away by Catherine Hokin

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Ever since the Nazis came to power, violence has spread through the city Esther Spielmann once called home. Each ni...

Shaz's Book Blog

20.01.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop by Joanna Toye

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Carrie Anderson’s business selling books at her local train station is thriving and, with her beloved Mike returne...

Shaz's Book Blog

18.01.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: An Almost Perfect Summer by Jill Mansell

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Nick is the most intriguing man Nella has met in a while. He's a 9 in the looks department (no one gets a 10), ...

Shaz's Book Blog

16.01.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Photographer's Secret by Ellie Midwood

Germany, 1944: Nazi banners blowing in the wind, Maggie Sullivan takes her first steps into enemy territory. Armed only with a camera and a ...

Shaz's Book Blog

05.01.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Christmas for the Homefront Girls by Susanna Bavin

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Manchester, December 1940: Sally, Betty and Lorna are determined to keep their spirits up this winter. Their frien...

Shaz's Book Blog

01.01.2025

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: A Postcard from Puffin Island by Christie Barlow

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Verity Callaway is running away. From her job. From her quiet life in the Midlands. And most of all from her ex-fia...

Shaz's Book Blog

31.12.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Winter Wishes in the Scottish Highlands by Donna Ashcroft

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Singleton and city-girl Ivy Heart has just turned thirty. She can’t remember when she last had a Christmas off and ...

Shaz's Book Blog

29.12.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Christmas at the Board Game Cafe by Jennifer Page

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Kate seems to have it all – wonderful friends, a successful career, and an idyllic life in the quirky Yorkshire tow...

Shaz's Book Blog

25.12.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: A Recipe for Christmas by Jo Thomas

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Take one woman longing for the perfect Christmas . . . All Clara has ever wanted is Christmas surrounded by loved o...

Shaz's Book Blog

12.12.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Festive Giveaway: Win a £10 Amazon Voucher

As one giveaway ends it's now time for the final giveaway of 2024 which once again has been generously donated by Emma who is offering o...

Shaz's Book Blog

02.12.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Festive Giveaway: Win a bundle of Bookish Goodies

I can't believe it's 1st December already! Personally this year has seen my reading slump continue although I'm slowly getting m...

Shaz's Book Blog

01.12.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Stolen Sisters by Ann Bennett

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Poland, 1944 When twelve-year-old Marta and her little sister Joanna are snatched while out shopping for food and p...

Shaz's Book Blog

08.11.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Last Agent in Paris by Sharon Maas

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Paris, 1940. As Nazi soldiers march down the Champs Elysees, Noor’s heart is shattered. Her family is forced to fle...

Shaz's Book Blog

30.10.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Twins on the Train by Suzanne Goldring

Reviewed by Emma Crowley As the smell of smoke drifts through the air, Jewish people lock their doors. They no longer feel welcome in their...

Shaz's Book Blog

28.10.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Tuscan Diary by Anita Chapman

Reviewed by Emma Crowley When Jessica’s grandfather left for war, he promised to keep a record of each day he was apart from her grandmother...

Shaz's Book Blog

24.10.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Irish Family Secret by Daisy O'Shea

Reviewed by Emma Crowley When Ginny Kingston returns to Ireland’s windswept Roone Bay after ten years of self-imposed exile, the last person...

Shaz's Book Blog

23.10.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Eden's Comfort Kitchen by Tilly Tennant

Reviewed by Emma Crowley When Eden turns the key in the red door of Four Winds Cottage, the clifftop house where she used to holiday as a c...

Shaz's Book Blog

21.10.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Blogiversary Giveaway: Celebrating 13 years of Shaz's Book Blog

I can't believe another year has passed since I set up the blog 13 years ago (technically the anniversary is tomorrow but I've decid...

Shaz's Book Blog

20.10.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Telegram by Debbie Rix

Reviewed by Emma Crowley 1943, London: Elizabeth Carmichael is rushing to work in her smart army uniform, worrying about her fiancé in the R...

Shaz's Book Blog

18.10.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Girl Who Risked it All by Kate Hewitt

Reviewed by Emma Crowley France, 1939: When Jewish refugee Hannah Lerner and her beloved younger sister Lotte arrive in a small French town...

Shaz's Book Blog

17.10.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Keepsakes from the Cottage by the Loch by Kennedy Kerr

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Tara Ballantyne hasn’t been home to Loch Cameron since her childhood sweetheart and fiancé Ramsay Fraser suddenly ...

Shaz's Book Blog

07.10.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Wartime Nurse by Imogen Matthews

Reviewed by Emma Crowley 1944, Nazi-occupied Holland. As Nurse Freddie cycles through the tulip fields, she looks like any other law-abiding...

Shaz's Book Blog

28.09.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Wartime Nursery by Lizzie Page

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Emmeline’s daughter, Lydia, has already been evacuated and now, as Emmeline loses neighbours and friends to the bom...

Shaz's Book Blog

25.09.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Resistance Bakery by Siobhan Curham

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Paris, 1943. The scent of fresh baguettes hangs in the air as Coralie unbolts the door to her bakery with trembling...

Shaz's Book Blog

20.09.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Giveaway: Win a copy of The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen

You know you have a bit of a book problem, although it's a nice one to have, when you buy a book then come home and realise that you had...

Shaz's Book Blog

16.09.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Secret Orchard by Sharon Gosling

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Bette and Nina Crowdie have never been close – the ten-year age difference doesn’t help, and Bette’s rarely been ...

Shaz's Book Blog

14.09.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Her Secret Soldier by Julie Hartley

Reviewed by Emma Crowley England, 1940. When Rose sees a parachute crash into the woods behind her house she rushes to help. Finding an in...

Shaz's Book Blog

05.09.2024

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls by Ellie Curzon

Reviewed by Emma Crowley In the darkest days of war, can a land girl’s wish come true? England, 1943. With Christmas days away, the land g...

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Shaz's Book Blog - Books & Literature

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Lost Memories of the Cottage by the Loch by Kennedy Kerr

Shaz's Book Blog : Extract from The Weekenders by David F. Ross

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Wartime Mother by Lizzie Page

Shaz's Book Blog : World Book Day Giveaway: Win a mini book tote bag & &#163;10 National Book Token

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: A Santorini Secret by Rose Alexander

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Dreams of the Scottish Highlands by F. L. Everett

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Promise She Made by Julie Hartley

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Girl Who Saved Them by S.E. Rutledge

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Little Island Flower Stall by Tilly Tennant

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Secrets of Foxglove Cottage by Rebecca Alexander

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Girl Who Never Gave Up by Kate Hewitt

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Family Behind the Walls by Shari J. Ryan

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Train that Took You Away by Catherine Hokin

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop by Joanna Toye

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: An Almost Perfect Summer by Jill Mansell

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Photographer's Secret by Ellie Midwood

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Christmas for the Homefront Girls by Susanna Bavin

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: A Postcard from Puffin Island by Christie Barlow

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Winter Wishes in the Scottish Highlands by Donna Ashcroft

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Christmas at the Board Game Cafe by Jennifer Page

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: A Recipe for Christmas by Jo Thomas

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Festive Giveaway: Win a £10 Amazon Voucher

Shaz's Book Blog : Festive Giveaway: Win a bundle of Bookish Goodies

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Stolen Sisters by Ann Bennett

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Last Agent in Paris by Sharon Maas

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Twins on the Train by Suzanne Goldring

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Tuscan Diary by Anita Chapman

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Irish Family Secret by Daisy O'Shea

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Eden's Comfort Kitchen by Tilly Tennant

Shaz's Book Blog : Blogiversary Giveaway: Celebrating 13 years of Shaz's Book Blog

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Telegram by Debbie Rix

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Girl Who Risked it All by Kate Hewitt

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Keepsakes from the Cottage by the Loch by Kennedy Kerr

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Wartime Nurse by Imogen Matthews

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Wartime Nursery by Lizzie Page

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Resistance Bakery by Siobhan Curham

Shaz's Book Blog : Giveaway: Win a copy of The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: The Secret Orchard by Sharon Gosling

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Her Secret Soldier by Julie Hartley

Shaz's Book Blog : Emma's Review: Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls by Ellie Curzon

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