Book blogger, Autistic, Probably a Dragon
I’m taking part in this blog tour for The Watcher, by Monika Jephcott Thomas. It’s about a young girl in Germany after WW2 watching her parents try to get their lives back together after her father’s return from war and imprisonment. It explores PTSD and the effects on children.
Published By: Allison& Busby Ltd.
Publication Date: 24th August 2017
I.S.B.N.: 9780749022402
Format: Hardback
Price: £19.99
Third in the Bradecote and Catchpoll Mystery series
Blurb
October 1143. A mysterious archer who kills cleanly and ‘dissolves’ into the forest, a missing train of pack mules on the salt road from Wich, and a lord in the wrong place at the wrong time, mean a crime the lord Sheriff of Worcestershire cannot ignore.
Bradecote, Catchpoll, and the eager Walkelin, are hunting a killer and a gang, and whoever is giving them orders. They are not helped by a reeve keen to keep his position, a lord with his own ends to serve, and a distrusting and vengeful widow with a haunted past, to whom Bradecote is increasingly attracted.
Continue reading “Review: ‘Marked To Die’, by Sarah Hawkswood.”
Hi all, I’m taking part in a couple of blog tours this month and as part of that I’m going to share the tour banner with you all so you can go and have a look at other blogs taking part if you’re into contemporary romance. As you can see, my review and extract posts will be available on the 9th October 2017.
Bryn contacted me earlier in the year to ask if I’d review his book Entropy. I liked the premise, so here we go:
![Entropy: Political Intrigue in 2048 by [Lucas, Bryn]](https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51k62k%2BC7oL.jpg)
Published By: CreateSpace
Publication Date: 17th July 2017
I.S.B.N.: 9781548895938
Format: ebook and paperback available
Price: £0.99 (ebook), £12.00 (paperback)
Blurb
Entropy is a speculative thriller set in the London of the very near future where the accepted political wisdoms of today have presaged the catastrophes of tomorrow.
Dylan Sharkey, a civil service desk jockey, is sucked into a revolutionary plot to bring justice to the dispossessed. His mission uncovers a foreign mole at the highest level of the British Government. Continuing his quest may cost him his life. Abandoning it would lose him his humanity.
Published By: Random House
Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Format: Hardback
I.S.B.N: 9781910701768
Price: £17.99
Blurb
Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire.
Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of arson. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why. Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself.
Tackling love, loss and loneliness, After the Fire is Henning Mankell’s compelling last novel.
Continue reading “Review: ‘After The Fire’, by Henning Mankell”
Source: Transphobes be so predictable.
I love Sabrina Symington’s ‘Life of Bria’ comics.
I’ve got a busy month planned for book reviews. Here goes:
I work hard for you lot, you know 😀
Publication Date: 28th September
I.S.B.N.: 9780998194158
Format: Available as E-book or Hardback
Price: £2.36 (Kindle E-book), £16.12 (Hardback)
Blurb
An irresistible shift of global power renders awareness about global competence ever more important. Through her collection of vignettes and articles about Asia and the world, Alicia Su Lozeron brings the Asian segment onto the western stage. She aims to raise that awareness and connects the West to the East by researching and analysing facts as well as describing experiences of cross-cultural nature. Her content is compelling, and her tales, beautifully narrated.
Nothing much, I’ve finished another edit of Fire Betrayed and sent it for reading by my beta readers. It’s getting there slowly, but I want to polish it some more. I expect to be sworn at again.
Continue reading “Novel updates, leaking roofs and doggie birthdays”
Published By: Pen & Sword History
Publication Date: 4th September 2017
I.S.B.N.: 9781473894174
Format: Paperback
Price: £12.99
Blurb
We live our lives immersed in name brand products. It’s hard to drive down the street without seeing a plethora of chain restaurants, car dealerships, branded clothing they’re all around us. What most of us don’t know is that the origins of many of the most well-known and beloved brands in the world are shrouded in controversy, drug use and sometimes even addled with blatant racism.
A Secret History of Brands cuts through the rumours and urban legends and paints a picture of the true dark history of famous brands, like Coca-Cola, Hugo Boss, Adidas, Ford, Bayer, Chanel and BMW among others. Explore the mystery of the cocaine content of Coca-Cola, the Hitler-Henry Ford connection and why Bayer is famous for Asprin, but began their journey with Heroin, and how Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were crafted to deter sexual arousal. Thoroughly researched, MacNabb details first-hand conducted interviews alongside fairly weighed research to present the decisive view of brands histories that you haven’t heard of yet.
Continue reading “Review: ‘A Secret History of Brands’, by Matt MacNabb”
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