Sara Fitzgerald’s daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything — whatever it takes — to save her child. Then the test results come back time and again to show that no one […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is top ten books on my Fall TBR list. Some of the books on this list were in my top ten books that will be in my beach bag this Summer as well, since I didn’t get around to reading all […]
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John Quinn, an investigative journalist on England’s biggest-selling and most notorious tabloid newspaper, is about to write the story of his life — a scandalous exposé of one of the country’s most powerful men. But the story dies when Lorna Thomas, the kiss in his kiss-and-tell, kills herself on a quiet country road. For six […]
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Love isn’t an exact science — but no one told Don Tillman. A handsome thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don’s never had a second date. So he devises The Wife Project, a scientific test to find the perfect partner. Enter Rosie — ‘the world’s most incompatible woman’ — throwing Don’s safe, ordered life into chaos. Just what is this […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. When I saw this week’s topic the first thing I thought was “oh, don’t get me started!”. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only book blogger out there thinking that! My TBR list is huge (I don’t have a physical list, but the one […]
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Usually when writing book reviews, I give you guys the summary from the back of (my edition of) the book. That won’t really work for The Catcher in the Rye though, as the back of my edition is the same as the front. Quite empty. I went to look what Goodreads has to say about the […]
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The extraordinary happens every day… One night, George Duncan — decent man, a good man — is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is top ten characters I would want with me on a deserted island, and it took me a looong time to come up with ten characters. You see, I think ten people is quite a lot to have with you in such […]
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In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forces to appear in a live TV show called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister’s place in the games, she sees it as a death […]
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When Deborah St James seeks refuge from the rain and her own sadness in the National Gallery, she does not expect to find herself confessing to an Anglican priest, Robin Sage. Still less to be doing so as they contemplate Leonardo’s cartoon of the Virgin and Child with St Anne, wondering why — yet again […]
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