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The Five Review
GoodReads: Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London – the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden…
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WWW Wednesday
It’s time for the WWW Wednesday meme brought to you all by Taking on a World of Words What Are You Currently Reading? GoodReads: Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you’ve sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy? Tarisai has always longed for…
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Children of War – Blog Tour
Synopsis: Hassanakis is a young Muslim boy of Turkish descent growing up on Crete during WWI. Fifteen generations of his family have lived on the island and until now he has never had any reason not to think he is a Cretan. But with the Great Powers tussling over the…
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Eileen: The Making of George Orwell – Blog Tour
Blurb: In 1934, Eileen O’Shaughnessy’s futuristic poem, ‘End of the Century, 1984′, was published. The next year, she would meet George Orwell, then known as Eric Blair, at a party. “Now,’ he remarked that night, ‘that’s the kind of girl I would like to marry.’ Years later, Orwell would name…
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Author Interview: Tim Clare
In preparation for the paperback editions of both The Honours and The Ice House, Tim Clare was super cool and offered to do interviews with bloggers. If you’ve seen my screeching/raving review of The Ice House, then you know I immediately reached out. We did this over a few days,…
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Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl ARC Review
New Year, new reviews! Though you’ll see this one is another one from the dreaded backlist lol. Content/Trigger Warning: This book is a nonfiction memoir about one woman’s sexual assault/rape and focuses on her once friendship with her rapist. There are other accounts of sexual assault and rape are also…
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Head Shot – Blog Tour
Synopsis: A girl from a Yorkshire mining town is barely thirteen when her father kills himself – her brother finds him dying. At sixteen she’s spotted by a rock star and becomes an international Vogue model. Seven years later her brother kills himself in her New York apartment and her…
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Charity Shop Finds!
Hey guys! It’s Sunday and I’m lazy, so it’s another Charity shop find for me. I was especially excited by the first two books if I’m going to be honest! I have The Poppy War on Kindle but I do tend to read better when I have a paper or hardback,…
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Charity Shop Finds!
It’s that time again! I know. I have a shopping problem, but after the Friday I had, I needed some retail therapy. Got these two beauties for .90P each! So for a total of £1.80, I have two books that between them have 8 Agatha Christie novels. This now means…
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At the Narrow Waist of the World: A Memoir -Review & Author Q&A-
GoodReads: Raised by a lively family of Spanish Jews in tropical and Catholic Panama of the l950s and 1960s, Marlena depends on her many tíos and tías for refuge from the difficulties of life, including the frequent absences of her troubled mother. As a teenager, she pulls away from this…
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