Book after Book

Welcome to the blog tour for The Giant at Number Two by Emily Wensley & Helen Morgan ! More about the book… Daisy-May is known to everyone as having a vivid imagination, so when she tells her family that there is a  giant living on their street, as usual nobody believes her. Nobody that is, except her Gran! Excited that there may be a giant living in the neighbourhood (especially one that wears funny masks!) they form a plan to find out all they can about him, in order to lure him into a trap. My impressions… The children and I had so much fun with this book! Could there really be a giant living at number two, or is it just a very tall person who looks like a giant to a small girl? I don’t wish to spoil your fun and give anything away, but I can tell you that Daisy-May and her Gran, who hasn’t lost the ability to use her imagination despite her age (!), are going to take you on a fun adventure. The illustrations by Helen Morgan are lively and colourful, and the r...

Welcome to the blog tour for Breaststrokes  by Margaux Vialleron! More about the book… A novel on pleasure, desire and consent told over the course of one weekend. Cloe and Gertrude and the Jenkins-Bell sisters, Mathilde and Sarah, have never met.  They are strangers who share only a city. It is Sunday morning. Cloe has woken-up in someone else’s home; Gertrude starts her shift in the pub kitchen, while Mathilde and Sarah are on their way to lunch. Soon, these four women’s lives will overlap. Saturday felt like a normal day, but on Sunday the past will catch-up with them as they realise that there never is only one side to a story. More about the author… Margaux Vialleron is French-born, Glasgow-based writer, who is co-host of the SPK Book Club – a podcast, reading and culinary community. Her short stories and essays have been published in magazines including Harper’s Bazaar and Compound Butter. She is the author of The Yellow Kitchen and  Breaststrokes  is her seco...

Welcome to the blog tour for Mary I:  Queen of Sorrows  by Alison Weir! More about the book… Adored only child of Henry VIII and his  Queen, Katherine of Aragon, Princess Mary is raised in the golden splendour of her father’s court. But the King wants a son and heir. With her parents’ marriage, and England, in crisis, Mary’s perfect world begins to fall apart. Exiled from the court and her beloved mother, she seeks solace in her faith, praying for her father to bring her home. But when the King does promise to restore her to favour, his love comes with a condition. The choice Mary faces will haunt her for years to come – in her allegiances, her marriage and her own fight for the crown. Can she become the queen she was born to be? MARY I. HER STORY. Alison Weir’s new Tudor novel is the tale, full of drama and tragedy, of how a princess with such promise, loved by all who knew her, became the infamous Bloody Mary. More about the author… Alison Weir ...

Welcome to the blog tour for Missing White Woman  by Kellye Garrett! More about the book… Beautiful. Blonde.  Missing. Murdered. It was supposed to be a romantic getaway to New York City. Breanna's new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything – the train tickets, the sightseeing itinerary, the four-story Jersey City rowhouse with the gorgeous view of the Manhattan skyline. But then Bree wakes up one morning and discovers recently missing dog-walker Janelle Beckett dead in the foyer. Ty is gone, vanished without a trace. A Black woman alone in a strange city, Bree is stranded and out of her depth. There’s only one person she can turn to: her ex-best friend, a lawyer with whom she shares a very complicated past. As the police and a social media mob close in, all looking for #Justice4Janelle, Bree realises that the only way she can stay out of jail is if she finds out what really happened that night. But when people see only what they want to see, can ...

Welcome to the blog tour for The Night In Question  by Susan Fletcher! More about the book… Florence Butterfield has lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and adventure. But, at eighty-seven, she suspects there are no more surprises to come her way. Then, one midsummer's night, something terrible happens - so strange and unexpected that Florrie is suspicious. Was this really an accident, or is she living alongside a would-be murderer? The only clue is a magenta envelope, discarded earlier that day. And Florrie - cheerfully independent but often overlooked - is the only person determined to uncover the truth. As she does, Florrie finds herself looking back on her own life . . . and a long-buried secret, traced in faded scars across her knuckles, becomes ever harder to ignore. More about the author… Susan Fletcher was born in Birmingham and s...