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Category: Book reviews

The Map of Bones Kate Mosse

August 25, 2025 cheryl

I bought The Map of Bones on a Waterstones’ buy one get one half price deal, and didn’t realise it…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: dual timeline novels, historical fiction, wo, women's fiction

Forsaking all Other Catherine Meyrick

August 21, 2025 cheryl

Disguised as a boy, gentlewoman and widow Bess Stoughton flees her father’s house to at worst procrastinate and at best…

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Releasing Janet Alex Banwell

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Releasing Janet, the second novel from Alex Banwell in the Benny series, does not disappoint. In fact, I found following…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: contemporary fiction, dual timeline, mystery, women's fiction

You Are Here David Nicholls

August 19, 2025 cheryl

You Are Here is a delightful read. Marnie, a self-admitted recluse and lonely, allows herself to be persuaded by her…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: clean and wholesome romance, romance, walking books, women's fiction

A Dry Spell Clare Chambers

August 5, 2025 cheryl

Disappointingly, not one of her best for me, although a more sweeping tale in terms of time and geography than…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: historical fiction, romance, women's fiction

The Lost Passenger Frances Quinn

August 1, 2025 cheryl

Elinor might have good business sense, learned from her Cotton King father in Manchester. But her devouring of romantic novels…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: historical fiction, romance, titanic, women's fiction

Shy Creatures Clare Chambers

July 27, 2025 cheryl

A delightfully different mystery, inspired by a true event, and full of Chambers’ normal cast of very human, real characters.…

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Gabriel’s Moon William Boyd

July 26, 2025 cheryl

I’m a huge Boyd fan, have been reading him since the 1980s when he released his debut A Good Man…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: book review, historical fiction, le carre, mystery, novel, spy thriller

When War came to Laundry Cottage Sarah Colliver

July 23, 2025 cheryl 2 Comments

When War came to Laundry Cottage is an absorbing, fast moving coming of age tale as Sybil learns to grow…

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The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook Tessa Barrie

July 19, 2025 cheryl

Sprinkled with a good deal of humour, some lovely imagery, and a cast of intriguing characters, The Secret Lives of…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: book review, cosy mystery, novel

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