Book after Book

Welcome to the blog tour for The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei! More about the book… Singapore, 1996. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother  in a single-room flat in Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin  appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. Gen and Arin grow up as sisters in Singapore: a place where insistence on achievement  demands constant sacrifice in the realms of imagination and play. As the sister’s struggle  toward individual redemption, their story reveals the fault lines of Singaporean society,  our desperate need for acceptance, and our yearning to be loved. Vivid and visceral, The Original Daughter is a breathtaking act of empathy by a new  literary star. More about the author… Jemimah Wei was born and raised in Singapore and is currently a 2022-2024 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is the recipient of ...

Welcome to the blog tour for The In-Between Bookstore  by Edward Underhill! More about the book… If you had one chance to talk to your younger self… would you? What would you say? A healing novel about a trans man in New York who - almost 30, laid off, broke - moves back to his small Illinois hometown. Darby left Oak Falls, Illinois years ago, hoping to find a community and to leave behind the memory of his childhood best friend, Michael, and the painful way their friendship ended. He walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school and feels an eerie sense of déjà vu – everything is exactly the same. Even the newspapers are dated 2009. And behind the till is a teen who looks a lot like Darby did at sixteen... a teen who just might give him the opportunity to change his own present for the better – if he can figure out how before his connection to the past vanishes forever. More about the author… Edward Underhill grew up in the suburbs of Wisconsin, where he coul...

Welcome to the blog tour for Lost In The Forest  by Colin Heber-Percy! More about the book… This book is a hymn to getting lost. Drawing on his experience as a troubled schoolboy, a burnt-out screenwriter at the BBC, an 'awkward' priest in the Church of England, Colin Heber-Percy reflects on the value of not belonging... We all share a desire to belong. There's reassurance and safety in knowing who we are and where we fit in. But at significant moments in our lives - a new job, new school or an unexpected change of circumstances - or just in the ruts and routines of everyday life, we can experience a sense of not belonging, of dislocation, of being lost in a forest. But there is another way to approach these uneasy moments. Rather than fearing the forest, Colin discovers great value and creativity there. Join parish priest Colin Heber-Percy in an invitation to get lost - to lose the labels society and institutions use to box us in - and to relish the liberation of lo...

Welcome to the blog tour for Murder in Covent Garden by Anita Davison! More about the book… Even though its famous opera house has shuttered its doors for the war, Covent Garden remains one of the most exciting, bustling areas of London. It’s where Hannah Merrill and Aunt Violet have their bookshop and, in spite of the recent spate of burglaries in the area, it’s generally thought to be a good neighbourhood. So Hannah is surprised when she sees a fellow shopkeeper – a jeweller named Jacob Cornelis – having a heated argument with a stranger. Especially when the next day Cornelis is found dead in his shop, apparently the victim of another burglary. But what shocks Hannah more is when she meets the policeman supposedly there to investigate the crime. Because he is none other than the man who Hannah saw arguing with Cornelis the day before. Hannah knows it’s up to her and Violet to investigate. But they don’t know they’re about to uncover a secret underworld of theft, murder and blackmail...

Welcome to the blog tour for Madame Matisse  by Sophie Haydock! More about the book… This is the story of three women - one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly forty years. The third is his daughter, caught in the crossfire between her mother and a father she adores. Amelie is first drawn to Henri Matisse as a way of escaping the conventional life expected of her. A free spirit, she sees in this budding young artist a glorious future for them both. Ambitious and driven, she gives everything for her husband's art, ploughing her own desires, her time, her money into sustaining them both, even through years of struggle and disappointment. Lydia Delectorskaya is a young Russian emigree, who fled her homeland following the death of her mother. After a fractured childhood, she is trying to make a place for herself on France's golden Riviera, amid the artists, fi...

Welcome to the blog tour for Murder At Mill Ponds House by Michelle Salter! More about the book… Spring, 1924. Reporter Iris Woodmore plans to move to London to avoid a shocking hometown scandal. Longtime enemy Archie Powell has been threatening to reveal her darkest secret – and she’s desperate to flee before he does. But when he’s found murdered after a violent argument with her, there’s no escape. Iris must stay and clear her name even though the truth could ruin her reputation. With the police closing in, Iris has to find the real killer if she’s to keep her secret. Can she prove her innocence without revealing the identity of the one man who can provide her with an alibi? More about the author… Thanks for taking the time to stop by my author page. You’ll see all my books are classic murder mysteries – because golden age whodunnits are the stories I enjoy reading most. I love to create memorable characters and devise intriguing plots with a focus on mystery rather than violenc...

Welcome to the blog tour for How To Speak Punjabi in Brampton by Onyeka Nwelue! Being familiar with this author, I was looking forward to reading his latest novel. Sadly, my copy didn’t reach me in time. Below you’ll find more details about the book. What do you think? Is this something that piques your interest too? More about the book… Balminder Jagvir Singh had perfected the art of juggling.  Every morning, Balminder, a tall, slightly round man in his early thirties with a perpetual twinkle in his eye, wakes up to the melodious strains of his mother's early morning prayers playing on his phone, mingling with the distant roar of the city of Brampton coming to life.  Brampton, a city with a rich fabric of different cultures, became home to Balminder just a few years ago.  His move from India to Canada had been filled with the usual immigrant anxieties and aspirations, but he has taken it in his stride, bringing with him a vibrant slice of Punjabi cul...