Available on Amazon
Available on Kobo
Available through Google Books
Available on Barnes & Noble
Available on Booktopia
Elle Serra finally has her shot at being a director for a Chicago company, workshopping with an up and coming playwright. This could be the career break she’s been waiting for. The downside? Said playwright is an old college flame. Bret Stark is already building his career in script writing but this play based on his own transition from college football player to drama jock is a new opportunity. He’s caught off guard when the director not only ... View Full Review
Available on Amazon
Eve Henderson is defiant in the face of her terminal diagnosis. Determined to have one last Christmas she leaves the hospital on a snow swept Christmas Eve. Spencer is in despair, his experience in the military have left him hollowed out and without the will to go one. Fate brings these two childhood sweethearts together one final time in an inspiring show of human connection and hope. A story that’s the perfect celebration of the magic of Christmas.
This is a sweet and heartwarming novella that would make the perfect Christmas read. The conflicting ... View Full Review
Available on Amazon
Rita is a thirty-two year old seamstress in Antofagasta Chile yearning for independence and a different life than the one expected of the women around her. Rita lives in a turbulent world that sees the end of World War I but an all too familiar division created by the threatening Patriotic League. The story also follows her cousin Julián, who falls for a mine owner’s daughter while campaigning for improved workers rights for miners, and Magdalena, Rita’s best friend who’s troubled marriage leaves her finding solace and scandal with ... View Full Review
Available on Amazon
Book four of The Nessemiah and the conclusion to this epic fantasy narrative is here. If you haven’t already, begin this story with book one: The Strains of Malice to follow the characters from the beginning. In The Kiss of Nessemi, the day of impact has arrived. As a natural disaster unfolds our characters are in mortal danger, still trying to reach each other or fulfill their own selfish needs, as the meteor hits and the waves are inbound to see whether the characters will survive the flood, and what will be salvaged from the ... View Full Review
Available on Amazon
We rejoin The Nessemiah in book three: The Awakening. The story flows straight on, even with continuing chapter numbers so it is vital that you begin the story with The Strains of Malice. This multi narrative epic fantasy continues to deliver the breadth of a George R.R. Martin book, The malicious Prince Magnus on the hunt for Jake and Emilya who evade him. Alicya remains in hiding though her trajectory may be bending towards home. Davy, recovering from the mining disaster, still searches for a new life. Will takes a risk to escape for help. Princess ... View Full Review
Available on Amazon
Bartenders & Monks by Joe McKenna contains sixteen stories about the ordinary and extraordinary experiences of strangers. Set in a myriad of locations and offering a mix of different styles, this is a diverse collection that offers a range of themes and ideas to consider.
The eponymous story, ‘Bartenders & Monks’ shows an entertaining comparison between the two seemingly different groups of people. This interesting connection and exchange opens up conversations about division and morality. All of the characters in the stories are nuanced, and not all of them likeable. In ‘As Confident ... View Full Review
Available in Paperback and Kindle from Amazon.
One fateful night when destruction and devastation is wrought on his home town, sixteen year old Lucas Tyler is dragged from the world that was familiar to him. He is taken away from everything he knows, separated from his friends and thrust into a battle he had no previous knowledge of and is yet to understand. His opposition wears a familiar face and his survival rests on the decisions he makes with those who stand beside him.
The New Bearer is an interesting start to a new series where the gods have ... View Full Review
Available from Amazon.
Available from KOBO.
Set in an imagined version of Britain that feels entirely, and chillingly, plausible in our age of escalating natural disasters, JE Broom’s The Locust Tide is a compelling blend of thought-provoking climate fiction and family drama. Readers are thrust into this dystopian new world through the sharply-focussed lens of 24-year-old Elouise, whose involving first-person narrative drives much of the novel. Following the death of her mother, Elouise is all-but alone in the world. Relocated to Newtown, a town for the “climate-displaced” that’s been hailed “an ecological masterpiece&... View Full Review
Available on Amazon.
Author Website
Goodreads
High-stakes fantasy in genre, and emotionally earthy in style, Matt Starostka’s Resonance, the first in a series, boasts a richly-evoked setting, dynamic characters, and a well-paced plot that’s driven by a classic conflict-ridden quest. The book begins with a dream. Now a young man, in his dream Vir is transported back to the time his sister Irina was seized, when her eyes held his gaze “as if trying to tell him something she couldn’t say aloud”. Though twelve years have passed since that fateful day, Vir ... View Full Review
With a gripping dual narrative, Sheena Billett’s Always Us sets out to answer the big question as to whether friendship really can weather any storm and last a lifetime. Essentially a female-fronted domestic thriller, the novel is suspenseful and shot-through with several shocking twists, and all underpinned by its characters’ resilience and capacity to forgive even unimaginably traumatic events. The novel begins with Patsy, a successful illustrator of children’s books, having treatment in a chemotherapy suite, wondering whether her estranged friend Anna, a well-known writer, is aware she has cancer. As Patsy begins to share ... View Full Review
Paperback available from Amazon
This young adult fantasy crawled under my skin and lingered in my thoughts between reading. A compelling story with great characters and a magical twist on our world. Diving straight into the action without delay, much like Quinn’s late term arrival to the classified Yoden College for the Bleeding Bear, the reader must get their footing while on the move. A magical college filled with knowledge of beasts, plants and titans it’s sworn to protect. Quinn is a loner, his lack of family connection to the school or prestige setting him apart ... View Full Review
Having previously read I Didn’t Know What to Say, so I Just Said Thanks and I Wanted to be a Bluesman, I am already familiar with David Joseph’s concise writing style. While previous collections have had a theme running like a connecting thread though each piece (location of Spain and Portugal or the impact of Blues music) this collection is far more broad in its offering. Focusing on capturing literary portraits, People I Know shows personal, relatable snapshots of human experience. From falling in love to losing parents, key objects from childhood to encounters with strangers. ... View Full Review
