“The first time I met Lillian Pentecost, I nearly caved her skull in with a piece of lead pipe.” From ‘Fortune Favours the Dead’ by Stephen Spotswood CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THIS B...
Gregor is a ‘rager,’ a sort of super fighter. And he needs to be because war is coming to the Underland. Gregor and the Marks of Secret is fourth in the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collin...
What an emotional rollercoaster this book is. I’ve read a lot of fiction set during World War Two but The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor is a new take on wartime conflict and its effect on ordin...
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What will Ellie do when the man she is keen on is arrested as a murderer? Death at the Dance is second in the Lady Eleanor Swift series of 1920s historical cosy crime novels by Verity Bright. The...
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‘Nothing ever happens to me,’ writes Camilla Haven on a postcard at the beginning of My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart. Longing for excitement on her solitary holiday in Greece, the inevitab...
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The premise for Before the Fall by Noah Hawley, also writer and producer of the Fargo television series, has a real hook. A private plane crashes into the sea and there are two survivors, JJ Bate...
https://sandradanby.com/2024/03/08/bookreview-before-the-fall-by-noah-hawley-thriller-suspense/
Sparrow by James Hynes is a unique novel. It is a harsh and unrelenting story, often harrowing to read, about a slave boy in a brothel in a Spanish city on the edge of the fading Roman Empire. It...
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Another classic I haven’t read before, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a paperback that, like The War of the Worlds by HG Wells, I picked up in bookshop attracted by its distinctive cover. I�...
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World War Two drama The Girl Who Escaped by Angela Petch is a heartbreaking slow-burner that had me reading late at night to finish it. The story about four friends in the small Italian town of U...
https://sandradanby.com/2024/02/18/bookreview-the-girl-who-escaped-by-angela_petch-ww2/
The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper, first in the Wolf Den trilogy, is a visceral portrait of Pompeii, the wealth, the poverty, the luxury, the corruption, the art and culture. Set in a brothel, this i...