I’m delighted to announce that the lovely people at Vintage, to celebrate the release of Eva Dolan’s novel ‘Long Way Home’ in paperback last week, have offered 3 copies of the book as prizes to UK readers of acrimereadersblog. This was an excellent book and a review can be found here. If you would like…
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A dark redemption by Stav Sherez – a review
One of the problems I find with a kindle is that I am much less discerning when it comes to buying books. As those who know me can no doubt testify if I visit a bookshop I take my purchasing of books very seriously. Whilst I tend to buy one or two at a time…
Lonely Hearts by John Harvey – a review
I have recently read my first novel by John Harvey who is one of the main speakers at the Festival this year. Never having read anything by him before I decided to start with his first novel Lonely Hearts. According to the nice people at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Festival this novel was named by…
The storyteller by Jodi Picoult – a comment
I’ve read a lot of books by Jodi Picoult and whilst I’ve always enjoyed them, like most things some are better than others. This was definitely one of the best. There are three main characters, the young baker Sage who lost her parents at an early age, her grandmother Minka who was a holocaust survivor…