The island of Twillengyle is a place where everyone knows everyone's business, where the men are hardy fisherman and almost everyone has lost someone at some time to the beautiful and deadly sirens who haunt the beach. When one of Moira's young violin students is found dead on the beach, the sirens are immediately blamed …
Sali Hughes is a British beauty legend. A beauty journalist who writes a regular column for the Guardian, she has a long history of writing about beauty and has tried out pretty much every skincare, hair product or makeup item you can imagine. In her book, Pretty Honest, she uses her no nonsense attitude and …
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I was really intrigued to read this book when Penguin Random House sent me an email about it and asked if I'd like to be part of the Blog Tour. The Matchmaker's List is a novel by a Canadian author, and the events in the book happen in well known places around Toronto, which I …
It's the Summer of 1969, and Evie Boyd is 14. As her mother is caught up in her own drama and Evie's best friend ditches her to hang out with another girl from school, she is at a loss for how to spend her long, endless Summer. She is also desperate to be included and …
Felix drinks to get through life. Ever since his wife died, he hasn't been able to see the point in anything, and just goes through the motions. The only person who understands him and has any patience left for him, is Melanie, his best friend. One night, stumbling home drunk, he's hit by a car, …
Curling up on a rainy evening with a classic English ghost story is a well loved past time, and Susan Hill has been known as one of the best of the genre. Her story The Woman In Black has been adapted for theatres in one of London's longest running plays, and also as a film. …
Sharp Objects is Gillian Flynn's first book, and has just been made into a TV series. It's the story of Camille, a journalist, who has made an uneasy peace for herself in her new life in the city. But her past in a small town comes back to haunt her when she's assigned to cover …
The first in a series of books about Inspector Gamache, these mysteries are set in Montreal, Canada, and surrounding areas. In this first book, Gamache finds himself in a tiny town called Three Pines after a beloved local woman is shot with an arrow. At first it seems like a hunting accident, but as the …
Recently, one of my closest friends, who has been struggling with depression for years, told me that she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. One of the things that she said that really resonated with me was that some of her friends had turned away from her and didn't want to know her anymore. It …
The Blackwell family have always lived in their beautiful home, a little apart and a little better than those around them. But since a family tragedy 6 years earlier, Merricat, her sister Constance and their aged and fragile Uncle Julian live there alone, avoiding contact with the hostile village around them. They live by a …
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