Everything Is Better With Dragons
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It’s officially official now. I checked blackboard.
I have passed my MA with Merit. Graduation is 23rd January 2019.
I can’t decide whether to focus on finishing Charlie’s War, Fire Storm and Her Last Death before going on to apply for PhD courses or try and juggle them all.
I’m on the first day of this tour, for the follow up to Mrs Bates of Highbury, which I reviewed earlier in the year.
This tour started today, and yes, I’ve only just got around to posting the calendar. Sorry, it’s been a bad day for my mental health. However, this little book cheered me up, and is going to a very sweet child.
ISBN: 9781526718372
Published: 7th November 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword
Price: £15.99
Format: Hardback
Continue reading “December Bonus Review #1: ‘Convicts in the Colonies’, by Lucy Williams”Blurb
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported ‘beyond the seas’. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire’s most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia – from the first to the final fleet.
Using the latest original research, Convicts in the Colonies reveals a fascinating century-long history of British convicts unlike any other. Covering everything from crime and sentencing in Britain and the perilous voyage to Australia, to life in each of the three main penal colonies – New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land, and Western Australia – this book charts the lives and experiences of the men and women who crossed the world and underwent one of the most extraordinary punishment in history.
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Published By: Bookouture
Publication Date: 30th November 2018
Format: Kindle
Price: 99p
Blurb
He’d found an angel for his collection. But one angel at a time was never enough…
Detective Beth Young has just joined the Cumbrian major crimes team when a body is found posed in a ritualistic manner – arms spread and graceful wings attached – at a crumbling castle in the hills of the Lake District.
The entire police force are on red alert. But Beth begins to feel she’s the only one who can follow the disturbing clues left by the twisted killer. Because she doesn’t think like everyone else. To Beth, crimes are puzzles she can solve. Even if real life is a little harder.
As more bodies are discovered in derelict stately homes across the Lake District, she knows she’s in a race against time.
But the killer is looking for another victim to add to his collection… Will Beth be able to save her? Or will he get there first?
A tenacious young detective with scars both physical and emotional, Beth Young will stop at nothing in her fight for justice for the innocent. The Silent Dead is the first book in the series. Set in the Lake District, it is perfect for fans of Joy Ellis, LJ Ross, and Peter James.
Continue reading “Review: ‘The Silent Dead’, by Graham Smith”
Published by: Wild Pressed Books
Publication Date: 10th January 2019
IS.B.N.: 9781916489608
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Blurb
The swans on the pond, quite abruptly began to sing. It was a singing so loud they were almost screaming. The swans were screaming, screaming as if they saw the horror of the world.
Gudbjorg Thorisdottir has been hiding from the ghost of an ugly secret for most of her life. When she finally faces the truth of what happened throughout her childhood, the ghost floats away. Painting an evocative picture of her life in Iceland, this is the story of a little girl who didn’t know how unnatural it was to experience both heaven and hell in the same house.
Thora Karitas Arnadottir (b. 1979) studied drama in the UK, and is a producer as well as appearing on stage and television. And the Swans Began to Sing is her first published book; her mother’s story, and formed the final dissertation for her MA in Creative Writing. The book was nominated for the Icelandic Women’s Literary prize Fjoruverdlaunin in 2016.
Website: Wild Pressed Books
Continue reading “Review: ‘And The Swans Began To Sing’, by Thora Karitas Arnadottir”
Yes, it makes sense, parse it out and you’ll get the title.
Anyway, postie has just dropped these two treats through my door. The Robert Thorogood is a post-Christmas treat, and Michelle Campbell’s She was the quiet one is booked in for January.
Now I really am out of book shelf space!
I’m dying to get started on these but I already have two of the books they sent in the last month on the go, plus my scheduled review posts.
Published By: Red Dog
Publication Date: 21st November 2018
Format: Paperback
I.S.B.N.: 9781916426238
Price: £8.99
Blurb
A SUSPENSEFUL, ATMOSPHERIC THRILLER.
Jane Hewitt had been miraculously healed—cured of a terminal cancer that had been eating away at her body for months. After one meeting with an incredible young woman, Jane rose from her wheelchair and walked out, believing that her lifetime of devoted faith had been rewarded.
The next day, Jane died in her husband’s arms, devastated that her God had deserted her. Her husband, Ian, blames her hastened death on the faith healer she visited. But that faith healer is a teenage girl called Megan, who has been in a coma for five years, and has no say over how her gift is used.
When Ian is arrested after being accused of breaking in to Megan’s house and trying to tamper with her life support, he turns to the only person he knows can help clear his name, and stop this family deceiving any other victims—Dr Alex Ripley, the so called Miracle Detective.
Fascinated by Megan’s case, and needing a distraction, Ripley finds herself on Holy Island, off the coast of North Wales, caught up in an investigation that will prove more sinister and dangerous than she could have imagined. Ian is not the first person to complain about Megan and her supporters, but he seems to be the only one left alive. For now.
A Hollow Sky is the second Alex Ripley Mystery
Purchase Link
UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollow-Alex-Ripley-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B07H9DTFM8
US – https://www.amazon.com/Hollow-Alex-Ripley-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B07H9DTFM8
Direct from Red Dog Press – https://www.reddogpress.co.uk/shop
Continue reading “Review: ‘A Hollow Sky’, by M. Sean Coleman”
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