Lucky Day by Beth Morrey

About the book CAN SHE SAY F*CK IT, JUST FOR ONE DAY?After a morning that starts with a terrible migraine, an accidentally strong concoction of painkillers, and a bump on the head, Clover Hendry is not quite herself. And as she walks out of work at 9.47am, for once Clover isn't worrying about anything. She…

Watery Ways and Habour Ways by Valerie Poore

Two relatively short books that I've read over quite a long period of time. Living on a canal boat is something that's always appealed to me in a kind of romantic way. But having read various accounts of this alternative way of living, that is all it's ever likely to be for me, a dream…

Community Service by Sal Thomas

About the book Could finding herself in trouble… mean finding herself in love? When PR exec Simone Stephens mistakes a real cop for a cosplay reveller at an immersive cinema experience, she finds herself in front of the judge and sentenced to volunteer at a local homeless shelter. It’s about as far away as Simone…

Panic Room by Robert Goddard

About the book WHAT REALLY LIES WITHIN? High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of mysterious background, currently acting as housesitter. The house has a panic room. Cunningly concealed, steel lined, impregnable – and apparently closed from within. Even Blake doesn’t know it’s there. She’s…

Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

About the book Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict. But what happens decades later when they unexpectedly converge once more? It is 1969, and sisters Trang and Quynh watch helplessly as their rural village is transformed by the outbreak of war. Desperate to help their impoverished parents, they head…