Blog tour: The Bravest Word by Kate Foster

An essential message, wrapped up in a simple and yet heartwarming story. Wonderful I’ve just typed ‘mental health’ into Google. And the first three hits were, in this order: Now, obviously it’s great that such a wealth of information is so easily available, at least in the UK. But do you notice something? All of

Blog tour: My Perfect Marriage by A J Campbell

Never mind the small details, just lose yourself I knew I would have to be at home for a substantial part of last week, to be able to sign off some builders as their work neared completion. So I decided to take the week off work in the hope of some much-needed reading and chillout

Blog tour: City on Fire by Graham Bartlett

Sometimes, I long for the simple pleasure of picking up – and paying for – a book by an author whom I have never heard of. Comforted by the knowledge that, whether I ended up loving the book or not, I’ll freely be able to write what I like about it. But then something like

Blog tour: The Split by S E Lynes

Here’s what I have to say. Please ignore anything critical Off the top of my head, I can immediately think of at least five reasons why I wanted to love The Split: The basic theme explored by the book – that of how easy it is for humans to make bad decisions during a heightened

Blog tour: The Custody Battle by Ellie Monago

So good that even man-flu allowed me to enjoy it Last week, I finally managed to reach a milestone on a big project that’s been dominating the day job and stressing me out for most of this year. And my body promptly responded by allowing my immune system to weaken enough that I caught a

Blog tour: The Teacher’s Secret by Lauren North

A fine first effort at something a bit different A few things have happened recently that I’m not sure how to feel about. Like, for instance, a legal service company writing to my wife, without my knowledge, stating that it’s their policy to ask for the written and independently-witnessed consent of every adult over the

Blog tour: Courier by Zoe Rosi

Please tell me I’m not that creepy? Zoe Rosi is an author whom I first heard of for what, really, were the wrong reasons. In her Q&A that she was kind enough to do for me recently, she’s touched on a few writing-related and other personal matters which meant that last year was not her

Blog tour: The Girl on the News by Elisabeth Carpenter

My heart is in love, but my head is confused This isn’t the best time of year to bring this up, given that we have, finally, put not only Christmas behind us but January too, but I’ve just read The Girl on the News by Elisabeth Carpenter and been reminded – a bit – of

Blog tour: A Most Malicious Messenger by Katherine Black

Who really wants perfect when you can just have fun? Many, many years ago, I accompanied my family on a summer holiday to Malta. And, after a couple of days of lazing and pottering about between the pool, the beach and the bar, someone’s thoughts turned to exploring the island. To do this, we needed

Blog tour: The Spice Maker’s Secret by Renita D’Silva

It’s beautiful. I’m just not sure it’s complete I have never quite got round to writing a bucket list (or should that be a ‘book-et list’?) of new authors to read. Not least because I suspect that it would grow faster than I could add to it. However, had I ever produced such a list,