I was asked by NetGalley to review this really gripping spy thriller.
Corfu and the Island of Vidos is where a group of people have been exiled- these are ex MI6 members.
This is Spyland and the story is set between the 90s and the 1940s.
No one is as they appear and Nina who is recovering form being in Serbia and knows all is not as it would first appear on the Island, and is weave her way through some awful events.
A gripping recommended read, due for publication February 12 2026.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this interesting and different spin on the London Blitz in World War 2- a fantasy novel. I have read a great deal about the London blitz but boy did the author conjure up the feel, the acrid smoke, the glass, devisation and black outs.
We meet Iris a young woman in the city working in finance, and Geoff working for the BBC, this is London at the beginning of the war, sprits can be summoned and history changed. a Fascist is travelling through time and it is Iris that will need to stop them.
What a different slant on history and a really good read a love story, morals of good v evil
I do hope there is a sequal.
Due for publication February 26 2026.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this remarkable story of love, secrets and family.
The story takes the reader from vineyards of France, Scotland, England and Australia. Jacques Louis Colbert and early pharmacist in London comitted a terrible crime is sent to Australia ( where convicts were sent in those days) for his crimes never to return to England.
Then there is Caroline the daughter of Jacques - escaping her past, travels on ship masquerading as a weathy widow to Austraila. She adopts a young cabin boy to be her newphew. When she emarks in Hobart Australia she seeks out an old cottage with an old vineyard and her vision is to grow grapes as her paternal family did in France before the French Revolution.
Caroline must reinvent herself as her father is not far from where she has settled.
Champagne, twists and turns and secretsd makes this a really enjoyable read.
Well wrritten and an author I will seek out.
Readers not long to wait due for publication next month on 15 January 2026.
Having time off in December I was excited to read this having been asked by NetGalley to review
I have a great interest in World War 2 and this book has been well researched.
A story following different people during World War 2 and post war-there is a german soldier, an Natzi SS Officer and an English Jew- they are all connected as they attended an art school in Germany. Quite a dark book but Nazi Germany was during the horrors of World War 2.
This author writes well and tells a good story.
Recommended and I belive was published at the end of November 2025.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this book.
I loved this book, told in a different was from points of view from people round about Clara and Seb, this is about forgiviness and love over some 20 years. The characters are not perfect and that was good.
20 years and a lot can happen and it does- from love, regret and happiness too.
This was a really touching story so recommended
Sadly not due for publication until July 2nd 2026.
Wow this lady has been through the mill, lived a bonkers life style - privillaged, in a different world, pre war, war and post war, where husbands ruled the roost. A husband with a sense of fun, party life but tainted by tantrums and outbursts.
Sad that Lady Anne - lost two sons, and nearly a third which is sad for anyone and these parts of the book you can see her despair and longining.
Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret - Lady Anne tries to set the record straight about this princess whose sister was the late Queen. Lady Anne fed up of what the media would protray her as.
Lavish life style with a husband who bought Moustique in the caribean and set about brinig this island to life.
15 years ago her husband dies leaving her with virtually nothing - did she see that coming or was there some naivety there we will never know.
There are times when you feel sorry for Lady Anne, times you think would I have done that and a different age and lifestyle brought up in the shaddows of the Royal family.
Recommended read I have to say I did enjoy it.
I was intrigued when this book popped up in NetGalley review books.
Whatever you do please read this book, you do not have to be disabled to read this. It gave me such insight, I laughed along with the author as she maintains humour in this memoir. This author became a friend and throughout reading this.
Moving, upsetting at times, uplifting, with sadness at times we want to be stong empowered women which I learnt can be a difficult task being disabled,
This is now published so if you have time over the hoildays please pick up this book and read.
I was asked to review this book by NetGalley.
I always love Katie's writing as her stories are based in the Cotswold not far from where I live so always a comforting cosy read.
Hattie job is to find other people their forever houses and dreams too. The story was predictable but that I did not mind as I was happy to immerse myself in this world and to find Hattie achieves some of her dreams too,
Due for publication February 12 2026.
I was asked to review this book by NetGalley.
This is a beautiful simply wriiten lovely story, the author writes well. The story is about Jaya a journalist who has just had her third miscarriage, and with her marriage in tatters she decides to visit India and look to finding out about her familys past and try to get some answers. Her Grandmother, Ravi shares her past - the struggles under British rule, secret love, and living in a difficult time then.
Jaya realiss the freedom to make certain choices that will mould our futures, friendship and what one takes for granted someone else will stive to obtain.
I loved this story and so recommended due for publication February 12 2026.
I was asked to review this book by NetGalley
Mystery mixed with paranormal with romance thrown into the mix tackles issues in here with thought and the subject of the American dream .and university from a first generation imigrant- Jamaican- American.
The author writes well with an atmospheric feel to this story. It has all the mystery, gothic, slow to start the grips the reader and you wont be able to put this down as it rubbles to the end.
I really enjoyed this book and will be seeking out this author again, due for publication 27 January 26 so not long to wait.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this - I was intrigued to read this. I am late to the table and have not read the authors first book, but will do now that I have read this book.
Mrs Sidhu is a caterer but on the side she is an amateur dectective and in this book she gets hired for the opening of a new art gallery. But just as she cannot belive her luck a significant painiting is stolen, and to cap it all her waitress is dead
Can she crack the case in this shadt world of art, deception and greed.
A really cosy dectective case
I was asked by NetGalley to review this totally magical story. I loved the two protagonists so much and I could not put this book down luckily the weather has been so bad that it has been ideal to cosy up and read.
Loved the fantasy parts of this not all is as it seems
Loved it so recommended total escapism
Due for publication Jan 22 2026
I was asked to review this book by NetGalley
I too was summoned for Jury duty last year - No way but Surgeon Mathew Phillips did and he would have got out of it easier than I did!!
You never know what the trial will be and neither did he- this is a murder of Christian Shaw 18 years old in a park in Edinburgh 2018. This could be some trial. The defendants who are on trial are two school students and the media is a frenzy - "witch girls". Mathew seems unaware of the media attention.
This gets under Mathews skin to the point where he is questioning his sanity and reasoning in this case.
Who's telling the truth? Who can be trusted?
And what really happened to Christian Shaw?
Wow the ending is explosive
What a read
Readers you will have to wait till till February 26 2026 for publication date
Recommended.
I was asked to review by NetGalley wow spicy YA book.
As I work in a school as a Cover Supervisor - I thought this would be ready for this but wow clearly I am old !!
I loved the school setting, the spice well,
fun combination of colleagues, single father and a nanny into the mix - I read this in one go on a rainy day I loved it
Readers you dont have long to wait due for publication in the new year - Jan 15 2026.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this really interesating story.
In three parts essentially
In the 1930s the Hotel Lutetia attracted intellectuals and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, who met here with the hope of forming an alternative government., and in 1940 Paris was Natzi occupied, The hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service. Then in 1945 the Lutetia was requisitioned once more, this time transformed into a reception centre for deportees returning from the holocaust.
Three groups of people are connected to this place and one and other. It reminds me of Raffles hotel in Singapore during world wars 2 and the history around this time.
This is tubulent time in history with such atrocities the Nazi regieme bestowed upon people.
Very intense, sad but so well written and researched,
Due for publication Feb 26 2026.
I was asked to review this book by NetGalley and so glad I did.
I have an interest in second World War history, at half term I visited the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu and came across an SOE musum in the grounds which fascinated me. Mark Smith from the Antiques Roadshow - brings together not just enuthusiasm for this period but also real people were involved.
The author has carried out a great deal of research which is intertwinned with this story of two fictional characters Theo and Tessa - Theo comes home Tessa does not.
What is remarkable that this is not just the story of that time and never knowing really what happended- today research is being carried out that we now are privilaged to know - sadly relatives at that time would never have been able to find ou.
Fast forward to a PHD student who is researching the SOE during the war - finds Theo and through her research they uncover he truth.
So well written and what a story i loved this so thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and Lori Ingles Hall for letting me read this before others will have the chance.
I reviewed Jeremy Vine Murder on line one sometime ago, and was really pleased that the publisher via NetGalley asked me to review Jeremy Vine new book.
A local doctor dies in mysterious circumstances and his poor widowed wife is getting tired of people thinking she did this! She ask radio presenter Edward to investigate.
This is murder, charm and wit all thrown into the mix whilst the reader is kept guessing along the way.
There are lots of twists and turns, Jeremy Vine writes as good story.
Due for publication April 23 2026. A recommended read.
I was asked to review this book by NetGalley.
An interesting window into different cultures, arranged marriages and immigration.
I have to say prior to reading this book, I knew little of this. The author writes so well nd although these are complex in nature I really enjoyed this book.
This is about love, loss and connection.
I found the ending a little surprising but will leave this up to the readers
Readers do not have long to wait- due for publication January 29 2026.
I was asked to review this by NetGalley. Wow I loved the characters and this is modern dating, just how the modern world feels with lack of dIrection, relationship hang ups.
Interesting story of dating today and lonliness too. I have to say I so loved Chuck.
Recommended read but not due for publication till May 21 2026.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this powerful YA book.
As I work as a cover supervisor I can understand the nature of this book which is about three teenagers who come together to inflict harm following the rape of a fellow pupil in their class. This story covers, rape, sexual assualt, racism etc - all the aspects we cover in schools today. It is a must read for all readers not just YA,
The author writes well and the main characters are not perfect so we see them warts and all but together they bring justice. Well done Carmel for writing and pubblishing this book.
Due for publication end of Jan 2026.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this beautiful story.
This author writes so well.
There is a lot in this dtory, from sadness, tragedy, family, courageousness and the ability to forgive too.
I was inspired, reduced to tears with sadness and such sensitive subjects which the author tackled with such sensitivity.
This was an epic novel and will be in the top ten when published March 2026.
So recommended.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this book. I particularly enjoy World War 2 books
Well written and so well researched
Stanley Wake is one of bombers in Bommer Command - who had a life expectancy of about 2 weeks during world war 2. His fellow crew members just want to get to their last mission all with superstions, feeling the Lancaster is haunted or just understandably scared. All serving their country and wanting to live.
Then there is Abby in a Lincoln factory- who salvages crashed planes for recycling the metals who seemingly is trying to not survive! they strike up a friendship with Abby and does she find a reason to live in the madness of war.
This is fictional story is a tribute to the men and women who either sacrificed their lives or did unimaginable things so that we have peace in Britiain today.
Ecxellent and recommended for fans of the Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop, First Light by Geffrey Welland and many other books of this time.
So recommended and due for publication April 23 2026.
I was asked both by NetGalley to review Kiley Dunbars new book- I loved the Borrow a Book shop books and this one was as good.
Lots a of wonderful characters, beautifully written and a lovely cosy story line.
Alice a trainee doctor seeking a quieter life, Murray coming back with a broken heart, and Finlay a mountain ranger loves being on hos own is drawn to the town, all pulled into the repair shop
Will these characters find love- be mended as the objects are at the repair shop who are broken and seeking love again.
Full of life, love, community and friendships this author has a talent for sharing wonderful people and settings in her books.
Loved this and it has been a privillage to read this before the publication date which is set for November 22nd 2025- just intime for Christmas and would make a perfect gift for someone.
I was asked ny NetGalley to review this really lovely festive read
The author writes such lovely characters and a really good story too.
There is Jaimie. Theo and Mirren. A secret book which could restore Jamies family fortune, a storm that cuts them all - imagine no mobiles, wifi or electricity sounds horrendous in cold snowed in Scotland but takes the three into the past and a search for an old book.
This is an intruguing festive cosy read
Due for publication 9 October 2025. Really recommended - Loved it.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this lovely festive read, and as the days get colder and we look to the festive season - it is never too early to start reading these cosy reads.
I found myself laughing and crying also.
The author has written some lovely characters and there is Laura and Callum - Laura agrees to be a fake girlfriend for Callum over the holidays.
Callum is in a bit of a mess- he does not want to run his family's farm, so a fake girlfriend gives him the ideal excuse for not visiting his family in Scotland. He leaves to attend catering school in Paris and rents out his London flat to Laura.
Confusion begins with the start date of the London rental and inpromptu visit by his parents to the flat- the lies, the fun and madness begins. Pretending can be a difficult thing to do amd will romance blossom in the highlands of Scotland this Christmas.
Readers not long to wait due for publication 9 October 2025
I was asked by NetGalley to review this and boy was I pleased and privilaged to do so
A story within a story, A bookbinder- there are hidden secret inside a book, throughout the story Lilian searches for missing books to piece this all together. What an historical thriller, well reserched - this author writes well and telld a great story that the reader will not be able to put down.
Such a treat and will be up there in the top ten just in time for the Christmas gift buying this festive season
Loved it due for publication November 6 2025
I was really pleased to review this from NetGalley
The story which is- dual time lines, and set in Greece. Skye has won a lottery to an abandoned Grrek house with some others. The house is in need of renevation and are helped by Andreas. As I said there are two timelines, one in the present and during the second world war with the previous owners, in which Skye find out during her time in this cottage by means of letters.
An emotional and good read really recommended and I feel privilaged to have read this before the publication date- set for March 26 2026.
This will be a great Easter and sunbed read in 2026.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this lovely festive book.
The temperatures are dropping now so was an apt book to read albeit it is September but NEVER to early for a festive cosy read.
Jemma works for a chain of hotels and is a highflyer living with her boyfroend Mathew and really is married to the job. Jemma has been head hunted to sort out hotels and this is really what she wants in her career.
Before America Jemma and Mathew go to visit her father on the farm she grew up. Mathew is not suited to the farm, the mud and the weather. Jemma is surprised as her father is not there to greet them - something is not right - her father is unwell and has been rushed into hospital. Mathew wants to leave, but Jemma stays to see what is happening with her childhood farm.
The story continues will the farm be saved, a retired rugby player is thrown into the mix. A magical festive read.
Due for publication October 9 2025.
I was asked by NetGalley to review this
My first thought was families and Christmas - I know only too well the temptation luckily I have all of December off so family is a bit part.
Anyway this is really interesting whodunit and even although I read it on one of the hottest days in the summer - it was really entertaining with some really vile characters- each one makes this story really work.
Well written and due for publication October 9 2025
I was asked by NetGalley to review this - I read this over the hot summer and this has now been published in April 2025.
A really well written and easy read. This is a very unlikely detective living in an old persons home, 87 with mobility issues ( Florrie has one leg) in wheelchair.
A tragic death- Florrie believes this to have been murder and is the murderer right here in the home.
Interesting as Florrie also looks back on her life - her passions, regrets and she has a secret.
Great Characters and a good story
I was asked by NetGalley to review this interesting read.
Wow what a story and a sequel also ( I read this as a standalone)
The Fitzmaurice family have covered up scandals and yeards ago they bribed the police to not press charges in and RTA, paying Bens friend to take the blame!!
Fast forward Ben is now Energy Secretary and has anbitions to become PM - so does not want any skeletons coming out od the cupboard. It gets worse as Bens daughter is an eco warrior and his friend who took the charges is back on the scene!!
We can all see where this is going - power, revenge and people who think they are untouchable and above the law!!
Recommended read
Due for publication 25 September 2025
I was asked by NetGalley to review this YA book.
Chloe betrayed by her friend Nikhita so she does not get the head Girlship but is deputy and to pour on more hot oil her boyfriend dumps her for guess who- yes Nikhita!!
Chloe is one of 12 members of a secret society and guess who the leader is - Nikhita who Chloe feels is trying to get her out - her fellow room mates try to support her.
Something is going on and Chloe is trying to get to the bottom of this as accidents seem to be happening. Chloe thinks she knows who is behind this, but will see get there in time.
Due for publication this week - 11 September 2025 Recommended read.
I was asked to review this by NetGalley and loved this
This was so beautifully written in the world of 197os and italian cinema. Nicholas flees to Venice and meets set and costume designer Danilo Donati who is working on two films.
This is intimate with complex charcters, one can't believe this is is history now as we are looking at 50 or so years ago,
Beautiful and due for publication November 6 2025
Thank you NetGalley for letting me review this remarkable sequel
In this sequel of the Impossible Creatures series, we follow Christopher as he goes back to the Archipelago to help Jacques save the dragons.
Desperate need of their help also, they find Anya, the Princess of Dousha, she is in need of help as this turns out to be the very same mission
This is a fantastic childrens book and so recommeded
Well whats not to love about a lovely cosy festive story and read in the hot summer in a lovely cottage in North Yorks.
Thank you NetGalley for letting me review this.
Lara works in the English Lakes at Ravensdale Castle and as it is nearing Christmas she is preparing for a Christmas light trail (we all love a light trail and since Kew - these are popping up all over December now) Then there is Flynn who takes up a post as Technical Manager and there is a spark. They try just to be work mates but things change. Will they be together for Christmas - you will find out as this is due for publication November 2025. So get the fleecy blanket, Christmas PJs and a mulled wine and enjoy.
So recommended loved this.
Thank you NetGalley for letting me review this book.
I am new to this author and really loved this story set after world war 1 and concerns three womwen, Florence is living with her dead sisters husband and his daughter called Phoebe who is a challenge. Kit is making masks for the soldiers who have suffered damage or had their faces destroyed in battle,
In the village is a large carved face in the headland- this was tended by a family pre war but they were all victims of the great war and is now disapearing.The people of the village are superstitious, wanting the face must be preserved in order to keep the villagers safe the war put paid to that and the family tending to it gone with the raveges of war.
The book is about the realtionship between Florence and Kit
Interesting but also very sad (this left a generation without men - I remember some very emitted primary school teachers who never got over this and were without love)
I enjoyed this well written book, Due For publication later this month on 25 September 2025.
Thank you NetGalley for letting me review this book
A beautifully written book, I was drawn to this as old school, I wrote letters, I had pen pals and before mobiles wrote to my now husband whom I had a long distance relationship. I was also a lover of stationary shops ( the old fashioned ones)
This is memior, how to all and about letter writing parties and the author has a letter shop - maybe this was like my memories of stationers, ink different grades of pens and pencils - love it.
I do hope letter writing is not cast into history
Beautifully illustrated loved this
I was asked by NetGalley to review this lovely book
Rory is a boy with dreams and a great immagination he and his friends at out adventures whilst avioding the school bully.As with all families he has an annoying older sister Clare.
The circus comes to town and Rory becomes interested in this and Donna the elephant in the title.
A really lovely story and will be an ideal Christmas stocking filler
Thank you for letting me review this book.
I was really pleased when the publisher asked me if I would review this authors new work so thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster UK for allowing me to review.
I read this on my holiday on a sunny day and as a fan of the BBC Fake or Fortune and the art world I loved this
Ths story is dual timeline- 1940 and in the 1990s
Maddelena and Luca in war torn Italy and Beatrice and Jude in the 1990s
Some critics did not like Beatrice story but I loved them both.
Mystery and intrigue around an old master, living under the doctatorship of Mussolini and the Natzi regieme in the 1940s
Well researched and written this author can write a good story.
I was asked by Lovereading to review this book due for publication 13 October 2025, and will be in the top ten books.
This was so compelling - a dual timeline story. Due for publication October 13 2025.
This gives a voice to women of history set in American in San Franscisco, a suffragist in the 19th century and a migrant attorney set in modern day. Wow what powerful women linked by blood, and a diary.
This story explores policics, imigration, and gender. All relatible and we can look at how far society and culture have come but boy do we have a way to go.
Well researched, this author writes so well, so recommended.
I so pleased during the long summer holidays that this popped into my in box from the publisher and NetGalley.
A great summer read, I am familiar with Carol's writing having reviewed her novel Under A Greek Moon forNetGalley.
This novel is set in Mallorca and is so glamourous- fashion and film stars, and a chef with his heart set on the covetted Michelin star.
Carol writes a good story with fab characters.
Camille has planned a wonderful show on the island and where her only son is running a sucessful resturant. All sounds perfect but is it ? Camille past is catching her up and is someone trying to rain on her parade?
We learn from the past from the characters journeys from Paris to the Big Apple.
A great holiday read so recommended.
