This fabulously compulsive page-turner is a smart, sassy lesson in jealousy, ruthlessness and obsession, proving that glamour and wealth don’t always go hand-in-hand with classy behaviour. Brace yourself for a hell of a cat fight!
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Author: The Book's Whiskers
Fanatical book 📚 addict with no loyalty to any single genre. When I’m not reading I’m a dedicated slave to the world’s most marvellous cat 😻
what to buy a booklover this Christmas
With Christmas now only one month away, my thoughts have turned to festive gifting for my fellow booklovers … and, admittedly, for myself too. And hurrah! we’re spoilt for choice this year …
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Book Review: The Kissing Ball
You are cordially invited to pour yourself a cheeky glass of something (I’m thinking a lovely warming amaretto), cosy up in your favourite chair by the fire and lose yourself in this charming collection of romantic short stories.
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Book Review: The Appeal
The Appeal really should start with a warning, along the following lines: if you have anything you need to be doing (eating, working, kids’ homework, etc) then abandon all thoughts of them now. Because it may be a well-worn phrase but this book is quite simply unputdownable … it’s utterly addictive.
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Book Review: Under The Ice
Just ten days before Christmas, and the beautiful cathedral city of St Albans is cloaked in snow. But all is neither calm nor quiet in this artfully written, slow-burning and sinuous thriller.
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Book Review: The Servant
The Servant is an enjoyable, enlightening story that will restore your faith in the healing power of love (if it needs restoration!) and friendship … but not before it’s dragged your poor, tattered heart through the worst squalor of Georgian London’s streets and backstreets.
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Book Review: Little White Secrets
If ever a lesson were needed in the toxicity of lies, then this book is it! By turns, terrifying and deeply poignant, Little White Secrets reveals the malign butterfly effect of a not-so-little secret, and its far-reaching repercussions.
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Non Fiction November #NNFD
Sometimes, what actually happens is more bizarre than anything that could be imagined. Let’s be honest; you only need to look across the ‘pond’ to the USA to see the truth of that! I’ll be indulging my naturally suspicious inner-self with a few cracking books this month …
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Book Review: Scorched Earth
This is atmospheric crime writing at its most thrilling. I lost myself in the story almost immediately, hooked by the plot, the characters, and the ever-present sensation that there was something momentous lurking just below the surface.
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Book Review: The Earl & His Lady
Book-by-book, Glynis Robinson is debunking my prejudices about the Regency romance genre, and I found this second instalment in the trilogy to be an effervescent, quaffable read with a sassy, intelligent leading lady.
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