I asked Moon Books for a copy of this seasonally appropriate book and it arrived yesterday. Since it was snowing and freezing yesterday, I went to bed early and had a read.
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The World Of Fire: A Tourist’s Guide To Albon – Hythe and King’s Ford
In a follow up to my previous post about Erce, I thought I’d take you to visit Albon for a tour. Albon is the home of my main character, Lizzy Albon. I present a leaflet from Erce’s Premier Travel Agency: The Traveller’s Union of Camar and Bemose.
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The Final Countdown
To book release date begins
A week to go and Fire Betrayed will be available for you to read.
‘Fire Betrayed’ update
Save the date!
Fire Betrayed is now available for pre-order from Amazon.
Publication date: 1st December 2017
Price £1.99
Promotions
If you buy the paperback of Fire Betrayed through Amazon, you can get the Kindle e-book free between 1st December 2017 and 31st January 2018. From 1st February 2018 the price will increase to 99p.
And as a bonus, Hidden Fire will be available for free for just one day – 1st December 2017
Review: ‘The Watcher’, By Monika Jephcott
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Publication Date: (10 Oct. 2017)
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
ISBN-13: 978-1912262021
Blurb
It’s 1949 when Netta’s father Max is released from a Siberian POW camp and returns to his home in occupied Germany. But he is not the man the little girl is expecting – the brave, handsome doctor her mother Erika told her stories of. Erika too struggles to reconcile this withdrawn, volatile figure with the husband she knew and loved before, and, as she strives to break through the wall Max has built around himself, Netta is both frightened and jealous of this interloper in the previously cosy household she shared with her mother and doting grandparents. Now, if family life isn’t tough enough, it is about to get even tougher, when a murder sparks a police investigation, which begins to unearth dark secrets they all hoped had been forgotten.
Amazon UK – http://amzn.to/2jpKeBs
About the author: Monika Jephcott Thomas grew up in Dortmund Mengede, north-west Germany. She moved to the UK in 1966, enjoying a thirty year career in education before retraining as a therapist. Along with her partner Jeff she established the Academy of Play & Child Psychotherapy in order to support the twenty per cent of children who have emotional, behavioural, social and mental health problems by using play and the creative Arts. A founder member of Play Therapy UK, Jephcott Thomas was elected President of Play Therapy International in 2002. In 2016 her first book Fifteen Words was published.
Website – http://monika-jephcott-thomas.com/
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Review: ‘The One That Got Away’, by Annabel Kantaria
Published By: HQ
Publication Date: 21st September 2017
I.S.B.N.: 9781848455122
Format: Paperback (also available as an ebook)
Price: £7.99
Blurb
First comes the invitation…
Something makes Stella click ‘yes’ to attending her school reunion.
Followed by the affair…
It’s been fifteen years since Stella and George last saw each other. Their relationship may have ended badly, but there’s still an undeniable spark between them.
Then
the consequences…
But, once someone gets you back, what if they never let you go again?
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Review: ‘The Watcher’, by Ross Armstrong
Published by: HQ
Publication Date: 21st September 2017
Format: Paperback
I.S.B.N.: 9780008181178
Price: £7.99
Blurb
She’s watching you, but who’s watching her?
Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbours.
Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act. But her interference is not going unnoticed, and as she starts to get close to the truth, her own life comes under threat.
But can Lily really trust everything she sees?
Review: ‘Black & White’, by Nick Wilford
Publication Date: 18th September 2018
Published by: Superstar Peanut Publishing
I.S.B.N.: 9781370304622
Format: e-book
Blurb
What is the price paid for the creation of a perfect society?
In Whitopolis, a gleamingly white city of the future where illness has been eradicated, shock waves run through the populace when a bedraggled, dirt-stricken boy materialises in the main street. Led by government propaganda, most citizens shun him as a demon, except for Wellesbury Noon – a high school student the same age as the boy.
Upon befriending the boy, Wellesbury feels a connection that he can’t explain – as well as discovering that his new friend comes from a land that is stricken by disease and only has two weeks to live. Why do he and a girl named Ezmerelda Dontible appear to be the only ones who want to help?
As they dig deeper, everything they know is turned on its head – and a race to save one boy becomes a struggle to redeem humanity.
Review: ‘Maladies and Medicine: Exploring health & healing 1540 – 1740’, by Jennifer Evans & Sara Read
Publication Date: 4th July 2017
Published By: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 9781473875715
Format: Paperback
Price: £12.99
Blurb
Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humours and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualised. It also explains the hierarchy of healers from university trained physicians, to the itinerant women healers who travelled the country offering cures based on inherited knowledge of homemade remedies. It covers the print explosion of medical health guides, which began to appear in the sixteenth century from more academic medical text books to cheap almanacs.
The book has twenty chapters covering attitudes towards, and explanations of some of, the most common diseases and medical conditions in the period and the ways people understood them, along with the steps people took to get better. It explores the body from head to toe, from migraines to gout. It was an era when tooth cavities were thought to be caused by tiny worms and smallpox by an inflammation of the blood, and cures ranged from herbal potions, cooling cordials, blistering the skin, and of course letting blood.
Case studies and personal anecdotes taken from doctors notes, personal journals, diaries, letters and even court records show the reactions of individuals to their illnesses and treatments, bringing the reader into close proximity with people who lived around 400 years ago. This fascinating and richly illustrated study will appeal to anyone curious about the history of the body and the way our ancestors lived.
Review: ‘Grimsby Streets’, by Emma Lingard
Published By: Pen & Sword History
Publication Date: 6th July 2017
I.S.B.N.: 9781473876019
Format: Paperback
Price: £12.99
Blurb
Grimsby Streets is a journey through time, which examines the meaning of many of the towns names and their association with the Danish settlers, through to the Victorian era, and the men who helped develop the town and build its surrounding docks.
Names of the great and good that were forgotten until now are explored, as well as some of the many famous people who were born there, and where they lived. The book also covers the many incidents, which occurred on Grimsby’s streets, to give a colourful insight into the history of this once famous fishing port and some of the many wonderful buildings that stood in this proud port.
Included throughout are a selection of old photographs, some of which have never been published before, which for many folk will give them a reminder of what this town used to be like before change and demolition in the 1960s.
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Everything Is Better With Dragons 