Have you ever picked up a book, started to read it and automatically believed that you know what will happen next? Well, Behind Closed Doors was one such book for me. I truly thought that after the first few pages I would be able to predict the storyline – how…
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World Book Day is a day to celebrate the great writers from around the world. It is a day where children, and adults alike, pay homage to their favourite books often by dressing up as their best-loved characters in order to spark conversations about the literary world. It is a…
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Literature Festivals: Why You Should Go As an often over-zealous bookworm I have been known to seek out these events where upon I can go and track down my favourite authors. It is an opportunity for me to rub shoulders with other geeky types who have namely one thing in…
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Sophie Child’s latest novel, We Just Clicked, is one of those books that you pick up, start reading and fail to put down once again until you are closing the back cover. This is an easy-to-read romance that causes time to disappear without you even realising it. WARNING – This…
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Black Widow is the twentieth novel by Scottish Writer, Chris Brookmyre , the man often referred to as a Tartan Noir author. As with many Tartan Noir novels, readers will not automatically sympathise with the main character, Diana Jager, but will read the story seeing her as a cold-blooded killer….
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Jill Mansell is a best-selling author of more than 25 romance novels, spanning a career of more than 20 years, and her latest one, ‘You and Me, Always’ is set to be yet another great success. If you are a fan of Chick-lit and easy reading this needs to be…
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Who is Jill Mansell? With 27 best-selling novels, Jill Mansell has become a household name especially for anyone that enjoys a romantic comedy alongside the likes of Sophie Kinsella (also known as Madeleine Wickham), Helen Fielding and Katie Fforde. Breaking into the ‘chick-lit‘ world is no easy achievement but Jill…
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Do you suffer with Wanderlust? Travelling the world is now easier than ever before, but deciding where to head can offer be as daunting as the journey itself. With so many great travel writers out there, the knowledge we now have at our finger tips is immense. However, with so…
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2016 is here and so too are a whole host of authors hoping that their latest creation will make it to the top of the bestselling lists, but who should we be looking out for? What will be you top read of 2016? Is anyone going to be able to…
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When searching for places to visit in Venice, St Mark’s Square, the Doge’s palace and the Rialto Bridge are always firm favourites but what about Venice’s hidden gems after all the city is a maze of tiny streets linked by bridges and waterways, there must be a thing of two…
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