Johanna Porter is Not Sorry by Sara Read: Entrapped in a moment of sheer madness which was juxtaposed with crystal clarity, Johanna Porter mid Art Gallery opening, does the unthinkable and steals off into the night with La Rosa Blanca in her possession. And whilst Johanna is in no way a […]
In Owner of a Lonely Heart by Eva Carter, The last few years haven’t been entirely kind to Gemma, since losing her husband to illness not long after they married. But lately she’s been toying with the idea of making a new(ish) start. It’s when she’s on the way to […]
The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel: When incredible visual descriptions meet dynamic dialogue meet situational comedy slash realism, we have a fabulous read that is more play than book. And it’s seriously clever; both in it’s integrating devices, it’s understanding and representation of people, and more importantly, it’s inherent thematic challenges […]
You Should Smile More by Anastasia Ryan: If farcical corporate take downs with whacky characters are your thing, then this debut novel by Ryan is definitely for you. When Venessa is fired due to her face, she returns home to her foster-kittens and absorbs the blow to her self-esteem by getting […]
The Forever Family by Shirley Jump: Book #2 in the Munroe Sisters series sees Emma up to her usual spontaneous tricks having woken up randomly married to Luke after a bit too much punch and a guarantee that she’ll get to remain at the meditation retreat with Yogi Brown. Certain there […]
In The Backup Plan by Jill Shalvis, Lauren and Alice had been best friends when they were younger, and Alice had a crush on Knox. Now all three of them are reunited when they each inherit a part of the Wild West B&B. Despite the tensions between them all, they […]
A Thousand Miles to Graceland by Kirsten Mei Chase: Desperately wanting to find a way to avoid her mother’s 70th birthday, Grace’s husband gives her little option when he delivers the king hit via marriage counselling – that he’s met someone else and he’s taking his glass-half-full attitude with him.
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher: Undoubtedly, historical romance always maintains this energy of magicalism that seems otherworldly, forgotten, emerging…a reference to a time when real things existed and perhaps real love was somehow more powerful than now. Post WWI France sees literary rebel Sylvia Beah travel to France to support […]
All That We Are by Mariah Stewart: As a door in Emma’s world simultaneously opens and closes wounds in her past, she leans on her best friends Maggie and Lydia to make sense of her past marriage and the affair she realises her husband had been having ten years after his […]
The Sandcastle Hurricane by Carolyn Brown is just another reason to love everything women’s fiction. I have loved everything that I have ever read by Carolyn Brown and was super excited to sit down to read this one. This is the story of Tabby, Ellie Mae and the amazing friends that […]