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Tag Archives: Contemporary Fiction
#BlogTour #BookReview🎄Christmas at Wynter House🎄(Wintersleap #1) by Emily Harvale #Giveaway @emilyharvale @rararesources
I’m delighted to be joining the Blog Tour for Christmas at Wynter House, courtesy of Rachel’s Random Resources.
My Thoughts
Times are changing for Neva Grey. Her flatmate and best friend, Jo, is engaged to her boyfriend and Neva can’t afford to buy her out of the flat they’ve shared for the last ten years. So the flat has been sold and their lives are following different paths.
A Wedding in December by Sarah Morgan ~ Christmas in Colorado #NetGalley @SarahMorgan #AWeddinginDecember
Author: Sarah Morgan
Due to be released on October 31st
Category: Contemporary Fiction, Christmas, Romance, Family Drama, Book Review
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First to arrive are the bride’s parents, Maggie and Nick. Their daughter’s marriage is a milestone they are determined to celebrate wholeheartedly, but they are hiding a huge secret about their own: they are on the brink of divorce. After living apart for the last six months, the last thing they need is to be trapped together in an irresistibly romantic winter wonderland.
Maggie White was looking forward to having her daughters, Rosie and Katie, at Hawthorne Cottage for Christmas as usual.
#ThrowbackThursday ~ The Hollow Heart (The Heartfelt Series #1) by Adrienne Vaughan @adrienneauthor #Drama #Romance
This week’s Throwback Thursday choice is the first of a trilogy that I loved reading. Set initially in England, the story moves to Ireland and the island of Innishmahon. The Hollow Heart was published in 2012.
My Thoughts
Penshaw (DCI Ryan Mysteries) by LJ Ross ~ When you sell your soul, the devil gives no refunds… #PoliceProcedural @LJRoss_author #TuesdayBookBlog
Author: LJ Ross
Kindle Edition
Category: Crime Fiction, Police Procedural, Book Review
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When an old man is burned alive in a sleepy ex-mining village, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan is called in to investigate. He soon discovers that, beneath the facade of a close-knit community, the burn from decades-old betrayal still smoulders. When everyone had a motive, can he unravel the secrets of the past before the killer strikes again?
Opening with a prologue set during the Miner’s strike in 1984, the location is the village of Penshaw, in County Durham. A terrible time for the country which resulted in the closure of mines and collieries, deaths, imprisonment and long held grievances.
#Spotlight on Fat Boy by Joseph Cobb, including an #Extract ~ Contemporary Dark Comedy set in the West Country
Today I’m pleased to share an extract from Fat Boy by Joseph Cobb. Before I do, here’s what the book is about…
Way out west, in the tumbling greens of England, something’s going down. Two boys attempt an escape from the clutches of their poisonous parents… A good policeman fights to sidestep the corruption that blows like hellfire down his neck… A calamitous filmmaker and her witless lead actor scramble desperately to overcome their mucky pasts and make a Hollywood hit… A trio of nude-nutted nasties thrash their way through the picturesque countryside, collecting debts but finding more than they expected… Then there’s Captain Grubbe: the eminent, manipulative and falsely titled antichrist. He hosts a spectacular annual Christmas party, and this year’s is set to be even more extraordinary than usual.
Fat Boy is a treacherously fictitious rhapsody, taking a tongue-in-cheek look at the best and the worst of humanity and treating it with the disrespect it deserves – love and hate, corruption and extortion, car chases, gunfights and high jinks, all set against the green and pleasant land of the English countryside. It is ludicrous. It is raucous. It is a modern classic.
The Cheese Maker’s House by Jane Cable ~ Contemporary Fiction with #Romance & #Supernatural @JaneCable #FridayReads
Author: Jane Cable
Published: August 2013 by Matador
Category: Contemporary Fiction, Romance, Supernatural, Book Review
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When Alice Hart’s husband runs off with his secretary, she runs off with his dog to lick her wounds in a North Yorkshire village. Battling with loneliness but trying to make the best of her new start, she soon meets her neighbours, including the drop-dead gorgeous builder Richard Wainwright and the kindly yet reticent café owner, Owen Maltby.
When her husband left her for his secretary, Alice Hart packed up and moved to Yorkshire with William, the spaniel. Her mother and step-father have emigrated to Spain and Alice is more than ready for a fresh start and to move on with her life.
Rewrite The Stars by Emma Heatherington ~ Contemporary Fiction #Romance @emmalou13 #NetGalley @HarperFiction
Author: Emma Heatherington
Publishing 6th September by Harper Collins
Category: Contemporary Fiction, Romance, Book Review
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From the moment they meet one December day there’s something between Charlotte Taylor and her brother’s best friend, Tom Farley. But Tom’s already taken and Charlie has to let him go…
It’s another five years before their paths cross again only a secret from the past forces Charlie to make a choice. She promises herself she’ll never look back…
Charlotte Taylor was twenty two when she met and fell in love with Irish American Tom Farley, her brother Matthew’s best friend and member of their up-and-coming band.
The Art of Hiding by MrsAmandaProwse ~ Contemporary Fiction #FamilyDrama #FridayReads
Author: Amanda Prowse
Narrated by Amanda Prowse
Published: August 2017 by Brilliance Audio
Category: Contemporary Fiction, Family Drama, Audiobook Review
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What would you do if you learned that the life you lived was a lie?
Nina McCarrick lives the perfect life, until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels.
Alone, bereft and faced with a mountain of debt, Nina quickly loses her life of luxury and she begins to question whether she ever really knew the man she married. Forced to move out of her family home, Nina returns to the rundown Southampton council estate—and the sister—she thought she had left far behind.
Bestselling author Amanda Prowse once again plumbs the depths of human experience in this stirring and empowering tale of one woman’s loss and love.
No Way Back by Kelly Florentia ~Contemporary Fiction #Romance @kellyflorentia #TuesdayBookBlog
Author: Kelly Florentia
Published: September 2017 by Urbane Publications
Category: Contemporary Fiction, Romance, Book Review
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When two eligible and attractive men are vying for your heart, it should be the perfect dilemma… Audrey Fox has been dumped by her unreliable fiancé Nick Byrne just days before the wedding. Heartbroken and confused, the last thing she expects when she jumps on a plane to convalesce in Cyprus is romance. But a chance meeting with handsome entrepreneur and father-of-one Daniel Taylor weaves her into a dating game she’s not sure she’s ready for.
