BOOK REVIEW OF THE BONFIRE BUDDLEIA BY JO BAVINGTON-JONES
PUBLISHED BY HUT 22 BOOKS ON THE 3RD MARCH 2025 An emotional look at three sisters’ lives as they come to terms with their past as children and the effect their childhood had on each of them. The neighbour from their childhood home dies, opening the vault of secrets for all three sisters. Can they come to terms with all this, but what are they going to do about it? This kept me turning those pages all day; you can almost feel the emotions pouring out from the pages. Very well written plus a truly wonderful story written by our…
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GUEST POST FROM JO Crime pays, so they say. And, to a large extent where books are concerned, this is true. My crime novels far outsell my women’s fiction novels. So, having turned to a life of crime (fiction) in 2021, why am I still writing women’s fiction? That’s a good question! Crime and detective fiction are undoubtedly my first loves. From the moment I opened Richard Scarry’s The Great Pie Robbery at a very young age, I was hooked, and my reading taste has never really changed. At fifty-seven, you’ll still see me picking up the latest Robert Galbraith…
View PostSICK TO DEATH BY CHRIS BRIDGES – BOOK REVIEW
Published by Avon on the 27th March 2025 Chris Bridges graduated from the 2022 London Writers Award. He previously wrote a weekly column for an LGBTQ+ lifestyle website and reviewed theatre for various sites. As a former NHS nurse with a hidden disability, he likes to feature the untold stories of sick, dying, and disabled people in his work and smash the trope of the passive disabled character with a background role. When not writing, he can be found reading compulsively or walking his uptight poodle, Frida Kahlo. This was brilliant, with twists and turns that kept you reading. You…
View PostSOMEONE IS LYING BY HEIDI PERKS – BOOK REVIEW
Published by Penguin on the 27th February 2025 Heidi Perk’s first book, NOW YOU SEE HER, was published with Century in July 2018. It became a Sunday Times Bestseller and a Richard and Judy book club pick. In 2021, she received a silver Nielsen bestseller award for selling over 250,000 copies. Since then Heidi has published five more novels: COME BACK FOR ME, THREE PERFECT LIARS, THE WHISPERS, THE OTHER GUEST and THE LAST RESORT. She is currently writing her eighth book which will be ready in 2026. Many of her books are set along the south coast of England,…
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