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Thank you SO much to HQ for sending me the audio for this wonderful book!

BLURB:

The drinks are flowing. The music is playing. But the party can’t last.

With the Blitz over and London reeling from war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for help. Fresh off the Empire Windrush, he’s taken a tiny room in south London lodgings, and has fallen in love with the girl…

ThankFirstly, I would like to thank HarperCollins for sending me a digital arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Blurb: When Jake learns of his troubled daughter’s death, he is determined to find out what really happened on that fateful night. But Jake hasn’t seen Jordan for over three years and, with secrets of her own, there was a lot he didn’t know about his only daughter. Jake’s…

Blog Tour: How to Say Goodbye by Katy Colins

*Thank you so much to HQ for involving me in this wonderful blog tour.*

Blog description:

No one is ever happy to see Grace Salmon.

As a funeral arranger, she’s responsible for steering strangers through the hardest day of their lives. It’s not a task many would want – but, for Grace, giving people the chance to say a proper goodbye to the ones they love is the most important job in…

Book Review: Sinner by Jacqui Rose

*I received this book in exchange for an honest review.* 

Book description:

‘Gritty and gripping’ Kimberley Chambers

‘A gripping yet tear-jerking gangland masterpiece’ Kerry Barnes

Having been brought up amongst the hardest gangsters and faces of London, Franny Doyle learnt never to let love be her weakness. But she’ll do anything to protect those close to her, and at whatever cost.

Title: The Family Secret

Author: Terry Lynn Thomas

Publisher: HQ, Harper Collins

BLURB:

Will she find the truth? England, 1940

After a sudden unexplained disappearance, Thomas Charles comes back into Cat Carlisle’s life with the suggestion she leave London – and the threat of bombs – to move to back her childhood village in Cumberland.

Back in her hometown Cat discovers her…

Blog Tour: Trapped by Nick Louth

Title: Trapped

Author: Nick Louth

Publisher: Canelo

Genre: Thriller

Links to Book:

Amazon (UK)

Kobo (UK)

Google Books (UK)

Apple Books (UK)

Blurb:

Two desperate criminals.

Something she never saw coming. A searing suspense thriller from bestselling author Nick Louth. In Manchester, two hardened gang members on the run take Catherine Blake and her one-year-old…

The Guilty Party by Mel McGrath Blog Tour

Title: The Guilty Party,

Author: Mel McGrath

RRP: £12.99 (hardback); here

Pages: 374

Publisher: HQ Publishers

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Blurb: You did nothing. That doesn’t mean you’re innocent.

On a night out, four friends witness a stranger in trouble. They decide to do nothing to help.

Later, a body washes up on the banks of the Thames – and the group…

The Girl Next Door by Phoebe Morgan Blog Tour!

HQ kindly gifted me this book in exchange for a book review

Genre: Psychological Thriller Source: HQ Stories Where to buy: Amazon

Blurb:

Things like this don’t happen here.

Perfect mother. Perfect wife. Jane Goodwin has spent years building her picture-perfect life in the quiet village of Ashdon. So when sixteen-year-old Clare Edwards is found murdered in Sorrow’s Meadow, Jane…

Remember Me by D.E.White Blog Tour

Book Blurb:

Fifteen years ago Ellen Smith vanished from the woods near her small Welsh village. Never to be seen again.

Eight people were in the woods that night: eight splintered lives, eight people hiding a terrible secret. But who can remember the truth?

Now, Ellen’s best friend, Detective Ava Cole is all grown up back in the village where it all began, and everyone is asking the same…

Thank you to Prestige Flowers for sending me this gorgeous Valentines bouquet! There is something special about receiving flowers, the notion of thought and kindness associated with the gifting warms my heart.

I was lucky enough to be sent this wonderful bouquet from Prestige Flowers in exchange for an honest review. Lets get real now…the packaging is STUNNING, the massive delivery box got me…

2018 in reading…

Yay! I read 97 books in 2018!

An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire 

Dog Songs by Mary Oliver 

A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles #1) by Theodore Brun 

Letters Home by Sylvia Plath 

Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1: 1940-1956 by Sylvia Plath 

The Sun Is Also a Star Nicola Yoon 

Secrets for the Mad by Dodie Clark 

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Idiot…

Scrapbook of an Unfound Songstress review…

Author: Vicky Nolan 

Blurb: 

You’re a 15-year-old schoolgirl who has big dreams of becoming a pop star, and then one day you get your lucky break. Polydor records sends you to Copenhagen to make pop music – to make you a recording artist. You get back home and your future is looking brighter than ever – until the High…

Title: Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. By Malcom Duffy. 

Publisher: Head of Zeus. 

Blurb: 

Humorous and heartbreaking debut novel with the fresh, funny, honest voice of a 14-year-old Geordie lad recounting the trials and tribulations of family life and finding first love. Nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal. 

Danny’s mam has a new boyfriend. Initially, all is good – Callum seems nice enough,…

The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau Blog Tour

Firstly, thank you so much to Endeavour for sending me a wonderful digital copy of this book. I will definitely be buying a physical copy because LOOK at the copy, it is gorgeous, and I hate to say it but I do judge a book by its cover. I could stare at it all day, just amazing!

Today, I am going to review The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau and I hope you enjoy it!

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10 ways to overcome a book slump…

Recently I have been in a bit of a bookish slump, I  keep picking up books – reading a bit and then putting it down. Urg, I hate myself for doing this…come on Shannon – just read the darn book.

So, to motivate myself and you – I am going to reveal my top tips for getting out of a book slump.

1. Stop reading the book you are currently reading:

This might sound like a strange thing to say but…

My weird (yet wonderful) bookish habit.

Recently I have been reflecting upon the weird things I do when I am reading or in my everyday life regarding reading and I thought I would share them with you. Maybe you can comfort me and let me know that I am not the only one who does them.

So, without further ado here are my weird book//reading habits.

My favourite place to read is sat on a cushion, on the floor with my back pressed against a…