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.
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘The Other Miss Bates’, by Allie Cresswell
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Blog Tour Calendar: ‘Scampy Doodle and the Reindeer’ by GJ Barnes
Scampy Doodle is a happy go lucky black dog who has a strong nose for adventure.
It’s Christmas Eve and Scampy Doodle is fast asleep when he is woken by a strange noise coming from the chimney. Discover what happens when he goes to investigate and gets the greatest surprise of his life!
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.
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘The Silent Dead’, by Graham Smith
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘A Hollow Sky’, by M. Sean Coleman
Earlier in the month I took part in the blog blitz for the author’s first novel, ‘The Cookoo Wood‘, and now I’m taking part in the blog tour for his second novel, ‘A Hollow Sky’. My review post will be up on the 25th.
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘And The Swans Began To Sing’, by Thora Karitas Arnadottir
I’m looking forward to sharing this one with you, it’s a memoir by Icelandic author Thora Karitas Arnadottir.
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
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘Mavis and Dot’, by Angela Petch
Blurb
A warm slice of life, funny, feel-good, yet poignant. Introducing two eccentric ladies who form an unlikely friendship.Meet Mavis and Dot – two colourful, retired ladies who live in Worthington-on-Sea, where there are charity shops galore. Apart from bargain hunting, they manage to tangle themselves in escapades involving illegal immigrants, night clubs, nude modelling, errant toupees and more. And then there’s Mal, the lovable dog who nobody else wants. A gently humorous, often side-splitting, heart-warming snapshot of two memorable characters with past secrets and passions. Escape for a couple of hours into this snapshot of a faded, British seaside town. You’ll laugh and cry but probably laugh more.”This book is quirky and individual, and has great pathos…[it] will resonate with a lot of readers.” Gill Kaye – Editor of Ingenu(e). Written with a light touch in memory of a dear friend who passed away from ovarian cancer, Angela Petch’s seaside tale is a departure from her successful Tuscan novels.
All profits from the sale of the books will go towards research into the cure for cancer.
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘The 4th Victim’, by John Mead
I’m not reviewing in this tour, but I’ll have a book spotlight post on the day.
Blurb
Whitechapel is being gentrified. The many green spaces of the area, which typify London as a capital city, give the illusion of peace, tranquility and clean air but are also places to find drug dealers, sexual encounters and murder.
Detective Sergeant Julie Lukula doesn’t dislike Inspector Matthew Merry but he has hardly set the world of the Murder Investigation Team East alight. And, it looks as if the inspector is already putting the death of the young female jogger, found in the park with her head bashed in, down to a mugging gone wrong. The victim deserves more. However, the inspector isn’t ruling anything out – the evidence will, eventually, lead him to an answer.
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘Homicide In Herne Hill’, by Alice Castle
Alice Castle is back, with her forth novel featuring Beth Haldane – archivist, single mum and amateur sleuth. I’m reviewing on the 15th, so if you want to hear what other readers think before then , take a look at the blogs listed on the calendar.
Blurb
Beth Haldane, SE21’s premier – and only – single mum amateur sleuth, is really pleased to find a new friend at the school gates, in the shape of irrepressibly bouncy Nina. As well as a way with words, Nina has a puzzle she wants Beth to solve, centred on the solicitor’s office where Nina works in Herne Hill.
But as the mystery thickens, threatening to drag in not just Nina and her boss, but the yummy mummies of Dulwich, too, Beth is about to find out just how far some people will go to keep up appearances.
Join Beth in this fourth instalment in the London Murder Mystery series for her toughest case yet.
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘Thalidomide Kid’, by Kate Rigby
Due to being insanely busy with book reviews, I’m sharing an extract instead, look out for that, and a chance to win a signed copy of this book.
Blog Tour Calendar: ‘Reprobation’, by Catherine Fearns
I’m taking part in this blog tour, organised by Rachel Gilbey of Rachel’s Random Resources, on Thursday. I liked the blurb when I read it, so I thought I’d take part and review. Here’s the blurb I was so taken by:
Blurb
Are you one of the elect?
Dr. Helen Hope is a lecturer in eschatology – the study of death, judgement, and the destiny of humankind. She is also a Calvinist nun, her life devoted to atoning for a secret crime.
When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, she forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity. Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who they believe holds the key – not just to the murder, but to something much darker.
Also on the trail is cynical Scouse detective Darren Swift. In his first murder case, he must confront his own lack of faith as a series of horrific crimes drag the city of two cathedrals to the gates of hell.
Science meets religious belief in this gripping murder mystery.
There’s a giveaway with this tour, too, but I’ll have more details on that for you on Thursday!
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