Orenda Books – Page 4 – Everything Is Better With Dragons

Blog Tour Calendar: ‘Little Siberia’, by Antti Toumainen

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.

Blog Tour Calendar: ‘Blood Song’, by Johana Gustawsson

Review: ‘A Modern Family’, by Helga Flatland

The Norwegian Anne Tyler makes her English debut in a
beautiful, bittersweet novel of regret, relationships and rare
psychological insights…
THE BOOK

When Liv, Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners and children, arrive
in Rome to celebrate their father’s seventieth birthday, a quiet earthquake
occurs: their parents have decided to divorce.

Shocked and disbelieving, the siblings try to come to terms with their
parents’ decision as it echoes through the homes they have built for
themselves, and forces them to reconstruct the shared narrative of their
childhood and family history.

A bittersweet novel of regret, relationships and rare psychological
insights, A Modern Family encourages us to look at the people closest to
us a little more carefully, and ultimately reveals that it’s never too late for
change…

Review: ‘Wolves At The Door’, by Gunnar Staalesen

Blurb
One dark January night a car drives at high speed towards PI Varg Veum, and comes very close to killing him. Veum is certain this is no accident, following so soon after the deaths of two jailed men who were convicted for their participation in a case of child pornography and sexual assault … crimes that Veum himself once stood wrongly accused of committing.

While the guilty men were apparently killed accidentally, Varg suspects that there is something more sinister at play … and that he’s on the death list of someone still at large.

Fearing for his life, Veum begins to investigate the old case, interviewing the victims of abuse and delving deeper into the brutal crimes, with shocking results. The wolves are no longer in the dark … they are at his door. And they want vengeance.

Blog Tour Calendar: ‘A Modern Family’, by Helga Flatland

Review: ‘We Were The Salt Of The Sea’, by Roxanne Bouchard, trans. by David Warriner

Published By: Orenda

Publication Date: 28th February 2018

I.S.B.N.: 9781912374038

Format: Paperback

Price: £8.99

Information here

Blurb

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman’s nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive, nomadic sailor and unbridled beauty who once tied many a man’s heart in knots. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he’s thrown into the deep end of the investigation. On Quebec’s outlying Gaspe Peninsula, the truth can be slippery, especially down on the fishermen’s wharves.

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‘We Were The Salt Of The Sea’ Blog Tour

I’m taking part in this blog tour from Orenda on the 22nd. There is a whole month of book reviews and blog posts for you to enjoy however, so do take a look.

I am very much looking forward to reading and reviewing this novel. You may have seen my excitement on Twitter about it, I love the premise and the book quality is fantastic. I love the cover and texture.

I will be in London tomorrow for a few hours, to see ‘Hamilton’ the musical. I am looking forward to it, and no bloody blizzard is going to stop me! I will try to give you a post-musical review. I’m taking my new tablet with me (got a new phone contract last week to decrease the monthly cost – it came with a tablet upgrade!) and it has soooo much more memory that I’ve been able to get all my apps on it, including WordPress. Also, my train reading will be I Know Where You Live, by Pat Young, which I’m reviewing on Saturday, you may have seen the blog tour poster?

Bye, for now, I have a jacket spud in the micro and I need my tea.