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#Blogtour Her Convenient Vow To The Billionaire by Jane Holland
It’s my turn on the Blogtour Her Convenient Vow To The Billionaire by Jane Holland.
About the Author (Author image credit: Anna Rybacka)
Jane Holland grew up in a house of writers. Her mother was bestselling Mills & Boon author Charlotte Lamb, her sister also penned romances, and her father was a journalist and biographer. Small wonder she became a writer herself! Starting off in poetry,…
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Fun rhymes to share with youngsters - Bus Rhymes and Playtime by Sue Wickstead #Giveaway
With great illustrations and fun rhymes,
Great for sharing with youngsters many times.
Bus Rhymes and Playtime by Sue Wickstead
@JayJayBus
#Giveaway
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My Review:
What a treat for any child who enjoys the playbus books
This is definitely one worthy of lots of looks!
Even if you've not read any of them before
This could inspire to read some more.
With great illustrations and fun rhymes,
Great for sharing with youngsters many times.
There are also bus ticket questions for them, too,
Promoting discussions all the way through.
A colourful read to…
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Her Convenient Vow to the Billionaire
Genre: Mills & Boon, Harlequin Presents, Contemporary Romance
The shocking twist to their reunion…She must marry the tycoon!
Playboy CEO Rafael is determined to demolish the biggest demon from his past: the Greek orphanage he once called home. It’s a cruel reminder of all he’s lost, including his childhood sweetheart Sabrina. But then she shows up to stop him!
When Rafael offers to hand over…
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Virtual Strangers by Sam Canning
Two people. One desk. A million Zoom calls. What could go wrong?
When Ada and Fraser find themselves freelancing from the same café together every day, they strike up a mutually beneficial friendship. Fraser saves her the best biscuits and Ada protects the best table when he's running late.
As they work side-by-side Ada can't help but notice how attractive Fraser is, and how well they get along. But then Ada signs up to an Agatha Christie fan fiction site and she starts chatting with a guy online. His interests are the same as hers, and the anonymity helps them both be more honest and open. As Ada's messages with the mystery man become deeper and more honest, she thinks she's falling for him.
Ada is torn between Fraser and Myster-E - but can you have real feelings for someone when you're virtual strangers?
My Review:
I read this book and then checked the flight to Edinburgh because I fell in love with the descriptions of the city and wished I was there.
This is a long love letter to Edinburgh and a novel, a rom-com with two human main characters and a very big non-human main character.
I had fun and enjoyed the story; I share the love of Agatha Christie with Ada and Myster E and I liked how Ada is a realistic character and I found some common traits with her.
As this is a rom-com you already know there will be some romance, fun, some interesting social remarks and a compelling plot.
It’s the first book I read by Sam Canning and won’t surely be the last.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks Zaffre and Rachel’s Random Resources for this arc, all opinions are mine
Purchase Links
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Virtual-Strangers-Sam-Canning/dp/1838779221
US - https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Strangers-Sam-Canning-ebook/dp/B0BJTRL9JM
The Author: Sam Canning is a Northern Irish born writer based in Edinburgh. Virtual Strangers is her debut novel. In her spare time, she can be found roaming the city to find the weirdest things she can and desperately trying to keep her one and only plant Stanley alive.
Social Media Links – Twitter: @yesshescan
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Today, I'm spotlighting the new release, The Family Home by Lorraine Mace #blogtour #thriller
Today, I'm spotlighting the new release, The Family Home by Lorraine Mace #blogtour #thriller
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Here’s the blurb
IS BLOOD ALWAYS THICKER THAN WATER?
Sally has lived in fear of her husband long enough. But after twenty years of suffering, she has been left with nothing of her own and no one to turn to – except her estranged sister, Alison.When Alison agrees to help Sally escape, she knows she must return to the one place she was told never to show her face again – the family home – and…
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Every Step You Take by M. A. Hunter @anautieauthor @boldwoodbooks @rararesources #everystepyoutake #blogtour #boldwoodbloggers #bookreview
Happy Monday and Happy April! This is no April’s Fool, today I am most definitely joining the blog tour for M. A. Hunter’s latest thriller Every Step You Take. Don’t know about you but I can hear Sting in the background 😂
Continue reading Every Step You Take by M. A. Hunter @anautieauthor @boldwoodbooks @rararesources #everystepyoutake #blogtour #boldwoodbloggers #bookreview
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Blog tour calendar: How to draw a giraffe - The Alice May Way, by Alice May
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Giveaway & Book Review: Conveniently Wed to the Laird by Jeanine Englert
Giveaway & Book Review: Conveniently Wed to the Laird by Jeanine Englert
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Thank you Rachel’s Random Resources for the chance to be on the book tour for Conveniently Wed to the Laird by Jeanine Englert!
Conveniently Wed to the Laird comes out on the 24th of January and is the third book in the Falling for a Stewart series by the author! The book is 252 pages long and is published by Harlequin Historical in the US and Mills & Boon in the UK.
Blurb:
When new laird,…
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PART ONE: Eating two slices of ice cream cake with James Murphy
(04/11/2022) (Solar Institute Bulletin No. 19) (From New York)
If elegance is arriving somewhere without a commute story, then in the newslettersphere, elegance is starting your letter with anything BUT an apology for its lateness. I’ve owed you a letter for ages now, and one hasn’t come. For that, I’m sorry!!! Since the summer I’ve felt the weeks spinning through my fingers like fine thread. Airports, shows, cars, bursts of loneliness and melancholy, moments of sun. They might as well pay me in jet fuel, I’ve been on so many fucking planes this year (if you’re looking for a saviour, ETC); haven’t been in one place for more than two weeks since… July, I guess, not that that’s any sort of excuse, but things just kept happening and the list of things to tell you about kept getting longer until it was overwhelming, and so it goes. As Rachel Cusk says, one has to serve out one’s changes moderately, like strong wine. By that logic, I’ve been drunk for months, and with that state comes ups and downs — intense jonesing for home and family, a struggle at times to resource myself, feelings of inadequacy, of longing and loss. A couple times I’ve been backstage doing vocal warmups before a show thinking, What the fuck can I offer these people right now, when I myself feel as loose and spare as a tooth or a tyre?
So finally today, sitting in a basement with bleach disciplining my scalp, I thought — today’s the day I’m gonna write to you. And for your troubles — TWO PARTS TO THIS BAD BOY. For all things tour — recent pics, updates on upcoming shows, et al, see part two.
Between drinks, it has been an intense period of what I’d call research — not writing songs as such, but reading, conceptualising, writing a ton of stuff down, laying the foundation of… something. I’m feeling excited and challenged. A little nervous. Teeth in my shoulder.
Warmup
Milan sneak peek (more dispatched via the Institute)
Best thing seen this year - bioluminescence activated by the movement of the waves. does anyone know what kind of seaweed this is? Where my biologist SCsWWTS at?)
Bathroom floor after Primavera, Los Angeles
Have felt your love in general, these past couple months. All year, of course, but special moments keep coming sweet and bright — touching a tattoo in the rain, or my mum sending a photo of a freshie in the supermarket. Running into people who were at Radio City, hearing about everyone’s different nights — my waiter being accidentally on mushrooms there, a sweet boy in the grocery store who went by himself. And then, holy shit, the intense, overwhelming outpouring of love that was Mexico. I’m still riding high on what a warm welcome we got, how sweet and dedicated you all are, what finally being able to hug you and not let go for ten seconds felt like. I did get a terrible cold, but it was worth it.
STARVING YOU OF LAUREN’S GORGEOUS SHOW PICS + GENERAL TOUR CONTENT BECAUSE OF PART TWO random iphone pics only!!
Have written the story of my 72 hours in Milano and where I went after as an Institute dispatch, FYI.
What’s been going on with me? This podcast episode. Remember this from last year? Going to see said painting at MoMa, having mind blown.
Finally going to Tiny Doll House (AS A NEW YORK ACTIVITY I REALLY. CAN’T. RECOMMEND THIS ENOUGH).
Seeing Dev play in the round. Thinking about work that feels open enough to contain different stories and meanings. Sitting in the sunshine talking about hearing One Dance for the first time.
Watermelon 5 gum (A DERANGED AIRPORT PURCHASE THAT I’M LOVING… XYLITOL CAN YOU BELIEVE SHE’S BEEN OUT OF NZ TOO LONG!!).
Finally read Essential Labor By Angela Garbes and it blew my damn brains out. Loving Cusk, halfway through Second Place. Natasha Brown’s Assembly and David Milch’s Life’s Work waiting in the wings. Read Natalia Ginzburg’s Voices in the Evening on a beach in Greece. Always so fascinating to me as I get older and realise that the books I’m gravitating towards are a little bit like my browser search history, getting at the questions I’m asking. Domesticity, family, parenting… paging Dr. Freudette!
This conversation between Hilton Als and Terrence Hayes in the Paris Review is one of the most gagging interviews I’ve ever read.
The podcast POOG, which I’m late to discovering but completely obsessed with. Like the rest of New York, Kate has me in a chokehold. “As she banters about skin care, you get the sense that her refusal to play herself onstage is part of a larger personal preoccupation with the ways that the coherent “self” is always a doomed project.” (Shades of Cusk???)
Gonna buy these Kari Māori cards for Christmas presents this year. This newsletter took so damn long I missed Mahuru Māori, but I consumed a ton of really thoughtful work by a variety of creators during that month, a highlight being this podcast episode reflecting on the 50 year anniversary of the Maori language petition being delivered to Parliament, and the future of reo in our country.
Haven’t seen Tár yet but it’s on my list. LOVED Corsage. Wanted to like Triangle of Sadness more than I did, although it was fun in the room.
Watching the movement in Iran with my heart in my mouth. I cannot believe the bravery of these women.
FUCK YOU BOLSONARO AND GOOD RIDDANCE.
Leaving you with two quotes, that could be applied to making stuff, or just to living your life. “First you hate something, then you investigate why you hate something. That is exciting — and for creative people, to be excited is the only way.” From Mrs. Prada. And this, such a classic, from Kris Kristofferson upon hearing Blue for the first time: “‘Jesus, Joni,’ he said. ‘Save something for yourself.’” No. Shan’t.
Throbbing with love for you. PART TWO INCOMING!
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Shadows in the Ashes - Christina Courtenay
I am joining the blog tour for Shadows in the Ashes by Christina Courtenay today. Thank you so much to Christina for taking the time to answer my questions, and to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for inviting me to be a part of the tour. Before we get into my Q&A with Christina, here is all the important information about the book.
BLURB:
Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical…
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#PublicationDayBlitz The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
It’s a pleasure to take part in the Publication Day Blitz The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou.
Author photo: credit – Jon Cartwright
About the Author
Eleni Kyriacou is an award-winning editor and journalist. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, Grazia, and Red, among others. She’s the daughter of Greek Cypriot immigrant parents, and her debut novel, She…
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A Mother's War
My 3.5* review of A Mother's War by Helen Parusel (@HelenParusel). A Mother's War is an emotive story about one woman's journey of friendship and other experiences as she falls in love with the enemy...
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Genre: Historical Fiction
A forbidden romance in occupied Norway…
Narvik, 1940. After Laila awakens to the sight of warships in the fjord, it isn’t long before she turns resistor to the brutal Nazi regime. She is horrified when local girls begin affairs with enemy soldiers, yet against her own principles, she finds herself falling in love with German soldier, Josef.
Josef is not like the…
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The Puppet Maker by Jenny O'Brien (Detective Alana Mack#1)
The scrap of paper looked as if it had been torn from a diary. The words written in faint pencil. The letters rounded, almost childlike: Please look after her. Her life and mine depend on you not trying to find me.
When Detective Alana Mack arrives at Clonabee police station, in a small Irish seaside town on the outskirts of Dublin, she doesn't expect to find a distressed two-year-old girl sobbing on the floor. Abandoned in a local supermarket, the child tells them her name is Casey. All Alana and her team have to go on is a crumpled note begging for someone to look after her little girl. This mother doesn't want to be found.
Still recovering from a terrible accident that has left Alana navigating a new life as a wheelchair user, Alana finds herself suddenly responsible for Casey while trying to track down the missing mother and solve another missing person's case… a retired newsagent who has seemingly vanished from his home.
Forced to ask her ex-husband and child psychiatrist Colm for help, through Forensic Art Therapy, Alana discovers that whatever darkness lies behind the black windows in Casey's crayon drawing, the little girl was terrified of the house she lived in.
Then a bag of human remains is found in a bin, and a chilling link is made – the DNA matches Casey's.
Alana and her team must find the body and make the connection with the missing newsagent fast if she is to prevent another life from being taken. But with someone in her department leaking confidential details of the investigation to the media, can Alana set aside her emotional involvement in this case and find Casey’s mother and the killer before it's too late?
My Review:
I was on the edge and holding the breath I didn’t know I was holding which is a a sort of commonplace phrase but there were moment’s I felt like I was in the story.
Alana is strong and abrasive character. The author did an excellent job in developing a character who’s been recently wheelchair bound and how she’s adapting. My brother-in-law is hemiplegic, and some traits of Alana brought me back in time to when he had to learn again to move in a world which is full of barriers and people who consider you too weak to face any difficulty.
This is not a cosy crime. This is a gory, gritty and dark crime that bring us to very dark places, but it also shows a lot of empathy towards the victims.
There’s grief, darker, there’s a lot of evil in this story but also a great team that works together to solve and find the bad guys.
I love them, the descriptions of Dublin and the tightly knitted and adrenaline-fuelled plot.
Can’t wait for the next story.
Many thanks to Storm Publishing and Rachel’s Random Resources for this digital copy, all opinions are mine
Purchase Links
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C9JJ5XYB/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9JJ5XYB/
The Author: Born in Dublin, Jenny O'Brien moved to Wales and then Guernsey, where she tries to find time to write in between working as a nurse and ferrying around 3 teenagers.
In her spare time she can be found frowning at her wonky cakes and even wonkier breads. You'll be pleased to note she won't be entering Bake-Off. She's also an all-year-round sea swimmer.
Jenny is represented by Nicola Barr of The Bent Agency and published by Storm Publishing and HQ Digital (Harper Collins).
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It's publication day for The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlov by Eleni Kiriacou #blogtour #NewRelease #histfic
It's publication day for The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlov by Eleni Kyriacou #blogtour #NewRelease #histfic
@EleniKWriter @Elenikwriter @AriesFicion @headofzeus @rararesources
Here’s the blurb
THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME.
London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan police. She can’t speak their language, but she understands what their wary looks mean: she has been accused of the brutal murder of her daughter-in-law.
Eva Georgiou, Greek interpreter for the Met, knows how it feels to be voiceless as an…
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The Secret Ingredient by Sue Heath @zarastoneley @0nemorechapter_ @rararesources #thesecretingredient #blogtour #bookreview #RespectRomFic
Happy Sunday everyone! Today I’m helping close the blog tour for Sue Heath’s The Secret Ingredient.
Continue reading The Secret Ingredient by Sue Heath @zarastoneley @0nemorechapter_ @rararesources #thesecretingredient #blogtour #bookreview #RespectRomFic
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Blog Tour Calendar: Caring Conservationists Who are Changing our Planet, by Kate Peridot
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