To be published on 17 April 2014 by Corsair (an imprint of Constable & Robinson) Book description Arms Wide Open is a poignant and bitingly funny tale of a family suspended in a cyclone of turmoil. Jack and Meredith are non-identical twins; the only similarity […]

I’m delighted to welcome Penny Waugh as a guest reviewer. Penny is a prolific reader and book lover whom I’ve known from an online book forum for several years   Published on 1 August 2013 by Arcadia Books This novel, set in 1899, gives a […]

Paperback published January 2014 by Picador (first published January 1st 2013) From Amazon: Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in […]

I’m delighted to welcome Hannah to My Reading Corner.  Hannah’s debut novel The Dead Wife’s Handbook was published by Penguin on 13 February 2014. Hannah has very kindly agreed to answer some of my questions: What inspired you to write The Dead Wifes’s Handbook? The […]

  Published 30 January 2014 by Headline Review  From Amazon:When Josh Strachan, newly returned to his home in north Cornwall from sunny California, first meets Sophie Wells, he’s immediately smitten. Sophie’s pretty, she’s funny, she has lots of friends and she clearly loves her job […]