Book Reviews

Chasing a Dream is a historical fiction book set in 1950 in a small mining village in Derbyshire. We are introduced to Stella, who has a...

Alison J. Barley's Chasing a Dream is a powerful, emotionally charged book that poignantly relates the grit and determination of a young...

Where do I start! The cover, it just drew me to this book, then the blurb sounded interesting. Nothing could of prepared me for the...

I thought the blurb and cover to this were both lovely and very inviting. It gives us the feeling that we get to know an entire life, and...

This is such a lovely, family historic fiction. Set in 1950 Stella has a simple life with a loving mum and a difficult father with her...

Chasing a Dream is a historical fiction book set in 1950 in a small mining village in Derbyshire. We are introduced to Stella, who has a...

This was my first read by this author and I wasn't sure what to expect at all. The cover also doesn't give too much away - and I never...

Anyone who knows me will know instantly, that this is most definitely not my kind of read! I shy away from anything remotely historical...

Radcliffe Road by Betty Valentine, is told in the form of a diary, written by male protagonist, George. George is in a care home and is...

Not my usual read, but One Day in May was an interesting trip into 18th-century life and one man’s tragic journey. Told through the eyes...

What a delightful yet emotional story. Rob is born into a world with limited opportunities for someone such as him. Mocked and ridiculed,...

This life-affirming story follows the lives of George and Henry. George and Henry are best friends, until a kiss in a garden shed changes...

I will start by saying that this isn't my usual chosen genre but I'm an eclectic reader and happy to read most books. I must say that if...

"Legend of the Lost" focuses on a world of fairies, nymphs, witches and were-beasts which discreetly exists alongside our own. It begins...

Jimmy Porter is a beloved and successful character actor (stage name Allan Porter) in London. He’s known for his short, tubby appearance...

I came across A Bustle In The Hedgerow: Volume 1 (The Witch And Jet Splinters) on Twitter and I am so glad I did. What a rip roaring and...

“A Twist of Starlight” begins with the tale of three children, the death of a mother, and the childhood of an evil half brother. A...

Nineteen short stories spun with a pandemic thread, Covid-19 Lives begins long before society was smitten with a global plague. Aliens,...

Where political corruption and magic meet, there we have A Spark of Fire, the first book of The Firelighters series. Most of London is a...

A deceptively easy, open read, the prologue of A Twist of Starlight places the reader in a sixteenth-century landscape, which, when...