October to December 2019 Scheduled Reviews and Promo Posts

Since it’s almost October (what a thought!) I decided I’d better start being a bit more organised again and actually write one of my ‘scheduled reviews’ post so you know what’s coming up.

Some of the blog tours I’m participating in in the next three months

October

  • 7th
    • Review – Folklore
    • Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women by Sharon Blackie
    • Organised by Random Things Tours
  • 10th
    • Review – Crime
    • The Birthday House by Jill Treseder
    • Organised by Random Things Tours
  • 14th
    • Review – Crime
    • Sacrificing Starlight by David Pipe
    • Organised by Rachel’s Random Resources
  • 20th
    • Review – Crime
    • Hallowed Ground by Paul Twivy
    • Organised by Rachel’s Random Resources
  • 22nd
    • Promo Post – Crime
    • The Wife’s Revenge by Deirdre Palmer
    • Organised by Rachel’s Random Resources
  • 23rd
    • Promo Post – YA
    • Darkest Hour by Rachel Churcher
    • Organised by Rachel’s Random Resources
  • 23rd
    • Review – Non-Fiction
    • Charles and Ada: the computer’s most passionate partnership by James Essinger
    • Organised by Rachel’s Random Resources
  • 27th
    • Review – Crime
    • Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen
    • Organised by Orenda and Random Things Tours
  • 28th
    • Review – Children’s Picture Book
      • The Alphabet of Life by Fran Morris
      • Organised by Authoright

November

  • 2nd
    • Review – Non-Fiction
    • Stand Against Injustice by Michelle Diskin
    • Organised by Love Books Tours
  • 5th
    • Review – Crime
    • Demon’s Fire by Lee Cockburn
    • Organised by Authoright
  • 9th
    • Review – Crime/Sci Fi
    • Blue Gold by David Barker
    • Organised by Love Books Tours
  • 14th
    • Review – Non-Fiction
    • Frankie: the women who saved millions from thalidomide by James Essinger & Sandra Koutzenko
    • Organised by Rachel’s Random Resources
  • 18th
    • Excerpt –
    • The Devil’s Apprentice by Kenneth B Andersen
    • Organised by Love Books Tours
  • 23rd
    • Review – Crime
    • In the Wake by Helen Trevorrow
    • Organised by Love Books Tours
  • 26th
    • Review – Crime
    • Children of Fire by Paul CW Beatt
    • Organised by Rachel’s Random Resources

December

  • 1st
    • Review – Crime
    • Death Makes No Distinction: A Dan Foster Mystery by Lucienne Boyce
    • Organised by Rachel’s Random Resources
  • 4th
    • Promo Post – YA
    • Fighting Back by Rachel Churcher
    • Organised by Rachel’s Random Resources

As you can see October and November will be busy but I’m taking most of December and January off to read the 50+ books I’ve acquired over the summer for myself rather than doing blog tours. I also have a small mountain of books from Pen & Sword to review. At some point soon there will be a true crime review post. Maybe to tie in with Halloween. I don’t know. And now I must go, I’ve got three books to review next week, and I’m only partly through two of them and haven’t started the third. Plus I need to get some ideas written down for my fantasy novels. I’m making some pretty big edits to the already published books and will be changing the third book, but that’s another post altogether.

Promo Post: ‘The Oath’, by Michael L Lewis

The Oath

THREE JUNIORS

A BLOOD OATH

A DEADLY OUTCOME

1955. The polished veneer of a boys’ boarding school in Northern England masks a cadre of wickedness. Seniors viciously torment any junior they deem unfit. Jonathan Simon, in his first term is warned that there are three monsters in his dorm; seniors Flicker, Sleeth and Tunk, and that the code of conduct mandates no snitching.

Simon befriends two other juniors; pixie-faced Ian Gracey and witty, grossly overweight Arthur Crown. During a cross-country run, the three friends take a short cut and stumble into the cadet rifle range. Corps Sergeant Sleeth puts them through a degrading punishment using human excrement. The three juniors swear a blood oath never to allow another bully to abuse them.

Will this oath be their downfall, or will they make it through the school year? Snitching could have serious consequences but keeping silent will break their blood oath.

As Simon, Gracey and Crown try to survive this perilous journey, the constant threat of harm brings their friendship ever closer…

Purchase Links

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oath-Michael-L-Lewis/dp/1912575868

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Oath-Michael-L-Lewis-ebook/dp/B07NPZ8M88

Book Guild: https://www.bookguild.co.uk/bookshop-collection/fiction/teens-young-adult/the-oath/

Blackwell’s: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Oath-by-Michael-L-Lewis-author/9781912575862

Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-oath/michael-l-lewis/9781912575862

WHSmith: https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/the-oath/michael-l-lewis/paperback/9781912575862.html

Foyles: https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/childrens/the-oath,michael-l-lewis-9781912575862

Book Depository (Free Worldwide Shipping): https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Oath-Michael-L-Lewis/9781912575862

Author Bio –

Michael L. Lewis was born and raised in England. After preparatory school in London, he was educated at Stowe School, Buckingham. Michael now lives in Los Angeles, California, has a law degree, and writes full-time. He was on the Board of Trustees for several schools and has been a member of the same book club for twenty-five years.

Social Media Links –

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44252300-the-oath

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorAttorneyMichaelLLewis/

Giveaway to Win 3 x Paperback copies of The Oath by Michael L. Lewis (UK Only)

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Review: ‘The Man in the Dark’, by Jonathan Whitelaw

Blurb

The Devil’s back – and he’s STILL not had a holiday.

There’s another mystery to solve – a woman kidnapped by terrorists and the world trying to find her. While he hates doing God’s bidding, The Devil can’t resist trying to put one over on Him. But nothing is EVER that simple.

While the Devil helps the London cops crack the case, there’s trouble in the Underworld. And two of humanity’s greatest backstabbers – Brutus and Cassius – are sharpening their knives with an eye on stealing his crown.

It’s a race against time to find the girl, be the bad guy and maybe stop the apocalypse.

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Review: ‘Blood Song’, by Johanna Gustawsson

The third book in the award-winning, critically acclaimed
Roy & Castells series, featuring true-crime writer Alexis Castells and profiler Emily Roy. Previous titles in the series, Block 46 and Keeper, have won the Plume d’Argent, Balai de la découverte, Balai d’Or and Prix Marseillais du Polar awards and sold in 19 countries. A French, Swedish and English TV series is in production, adapted by and starring award-winning French actress Alexandra Lamy.

Spain, 1938

The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Teresa witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Teresa gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.

Falkenberg, Sweden, 2016

A wealthy family is found savagely murdered in their luxurious home. Discovering that her parents have been slaughtered, Aliénor Lindbergh, a new recruit to the UK’s Scotland Yard, rushes back to Sweden and finds her
hometown rocked by the massacre.

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Review: ‘Magnificent Women and their revolutionary machines’, by Henrietta Heald #RandomThingsTours #Unbounders #MagnificentWomen

Blurb

‘Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.’

This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women’s Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel Parsons, a powerful mother and daughter duo, and Caroline Haslett, whose mission was to liberate women from domestic drudgery, it was the world’s first professional organisation dedicated to the campaign for women’s rights.

Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines tells the stories of the women at the heart of this group – from their success in fanning the flames of a social revolution to their significant achievements in engineering and technology. It centres on the parallel but contrasting lives of the two main protagonists, Rachel Parsons and Caroline Haslett – one born to privilege and riches whose life ended in dramatic tragedy; the other who rose from humble roots to become the leading professional woman of her age and mistress of the thrilling new

Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines tells the stories of the women at the heart of this group – from their success in fanning the flames of a social revolution to their significant achievements in engineering and technology. It centres on the parallel but contrasting lives of the two main protagonists, Rachel Parsons and Caroline Haslett – one born to privilege and riches whose life ended in dramatic tragedy; the other who rose from humble roots to become the leading professional woman of her age and mistress of the thrilling new power of the twentieth century: electricity.

In this fascinating book, acclaimed biographer Henrietta Heald also illuminates the era in which the society was founded. From the moment when women in Britain were allowed to vote for the first time, and to stand for Parliament, she charts the changing attitudes to women’s rights both in society and in the workplace.

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Children’s Picture Book Review: ‘Whee to the Moon’, by Arron Charman, illustrated by Martin Scott

Neil is a young boy who likes to scream “whee!” with excitement when he’s at the playground. Neil develops a love of flying. As he gets older, he learns how to fly aircraft that will take him on many different adventures. Even though he is now a grown up, Neil still excitedly screams “whee!” as he gets to fly all the way to the Moon!

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