Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Monday, 22 February 2016
Mailbox Monday
Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. It was created by Marcia @ A Girl and Her Books but now has a permanent home here
I received a surprise book post this week from Headline. It's called The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans and is due to be published on the 19th May.
This is the story of Nina Parr, a girl who has grown up in London with her mother after her father's early death catching butterflies in the Amazon. She knows nothing about him, or his family, and has got to the age of almost twenty-five accepting this, until one day in a dusty old library off Piccadilly she bumps into an old lady who seems to recognise her...
Monday, 15 February 2016
Mailbox Monday
Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. It was created by Marcia @ A Girl and Her Books but now has a permanent home here
Just one for me this week but I'm so excited about it, a book proof of This Must Be The Place by Maggie O'Farrell. It's due to be published by Headline on 16th May.
Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life.
A
New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never
sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife,
Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone
who ventures up their driveway.
He is also about to find out
something about a woman he lost touch with twenty years ago, and this
discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will
his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?
THIS MUST BE
THE PLACE crosses continents and time zones, giving voice to a diverse
and complex cast of characters. At its heart, it is an extraordinary
portrait of a marriage, the forces that hold it together and the
pressures that drive it apart.
Maggie O'Farrell's seventh novel
is a dazzling, intimate epic about who we leave behind and who we become
as we search for our place in the world.
Friday, 12 February 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
This week my book beginning is from The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon.
Mrs Creasy disappeared on a Monday.
I know it was a Monday, because it was the day the dustbin men came, and the avenue was filled with a smell of scraped plates.
'What's he up to?' My father nodded at the lace in the kitchen window. Mr Creasy was wandering the pavement in his shirtsleeves.
Book Description:
Summer, 1976
Mrs Creasy is missing and The Avenue is alive with whispers. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, ten-year-olds Grace and Tilly decide to take matters into their own hands.
But as doors and mouths begin to open and the cul-de-sac starts giving up its secrets, the amateur detectives will find more than they could have imagined...
Friday, 5 February 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - Little Black Lies
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
I'm currently reading Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton.
I've been wondering if I have what it takes to kill. Whether I can look a living creature in the eye and take the one irreversible action that ends a life. Asked and answered, I suppose. I have no difficulty in killing, I'm actually rather good at it.
Book Decription
In such a small community
as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a
dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely...
When
another child goes missing, and then a third, it’s no longer possible
to believe that their deaths were accidental, and the villagers must
admit that there is a murderer among them. Even Catrin Quinn, a damaged
woman living a reclusive life after the accidental deaths of her own two
sons a few years ago, gets involved in the searches and the
speculation.
And suddenly, in this wild and beautiful place that
generations have called home, no one feels safe and the hysteria begins
to rise.
But three islanders—Catrin, her childhood best friend,
Rachel, and her ex-lover Callum—are hiding terrible secrets. And they
have two things in common: all three of them are grieving, and none of
them trust anyone, not even themselves.
Friday, 29 January 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - Sweetheart Sweetheart
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
My book beginning is from Sweetheart Sweetheart by Bernard Taylor.
I can't see the sun right now; there's an angel in the way.
As I lie here in the short-cropped grass with my eyes just half open a butterfly alights on the carved angel's head. It stays only a few seconds - its wings opening and closing - then takes off, fluttering away, dancing up and down over the grey stone wall.
Book Description
David Warwick, an
Englishman living in New York, has a sudden premonition that his twin
brother, Colin, is in danger. He returns to England and learns the
shocking truth: both Colin and his young bride Helen have died ghastly
deaths - deaths that no one in the village wants to talk about.
Now
David has inherited his brother's home, Gerrard's Hill Cottage, a
lovely house with a lush garden that seems to promise peace and comfort
to all who dwell there. But as David tries to unearth the facts of what
really happened to his brother and his wife, he has no idea of the
horror and evil that surround him or the terrible fate that may be in
store...
Monday, 25 January 2016
Mailbox Monday
Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. It was created by Marcia @ A Girl and Her Books but now has a permanent home here
This week I was lucky enough to get Five Rivers on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris via Netgalley. This was on my wishlist and is published by Doubleday on 21st April 2016.
'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.'
One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide – a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower – all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of love, grief, disenchantment and hope that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small town life.
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