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Sweaty and Pals
Sweaty and Pals is a good fun read for children of around seven years and upwards to read for themselves, or for parents to read to...


My Fight For My Family (The Mega Pig File)
This is a fact based novella partly set out in diary form, partly a memoir. I'm finding it incredibly difficult to give a star rating...


Black Rock
This is a beautiful story, told in the first person, of a teenage girl growing up in Black Rock,Tobago and, after a dreadful event in her...


Best Day Ever
This is quite a slow burner of a book, so much so that I felt I didn't want to carry on with it when I was about 25 – 30% of the way...


Don't Wake Up
From the very first words of this excellent debut by Liz Lawler, we feel the chilling horror of Alex's realisation of what's happening to...


Viking Thunder
This short story is another raunchy masterpiece by Emmanuelle de Maupassant. Erotic literature isn't my usual choice of reading but...


Friend Request
Remember the peer pressure at school? You were a nice person really, but those popular girls you so wanted to impress and be part of,...


Fear
At the front of this book is a 'Dear Reader' and a short explanation of how this book came about. It's loosely based on a true story but,...


Tin Man
This one made a deep emotional impact on me – it's the only book I can honestly say made me teary eyed – twice! On reading the first few...


The Girlfriend
Being a 450+ page book, I thought this would last me a few days reading on holiday – well, it managed to last just two days because it is...


Deceit In May
This is a fluid and easy to read suspense story set mostly in the south of England. Keira is clearing and selling the family home she...


Fierce Kingdom
This is an amazingly tense and impacting story. It's set over just a three hour timeline with very few characters, in fact, most of the...


Should You Ask Me
'I've come about the bodies. I know who they are.'
Just before D-Day in 1944, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, an elderly woma


One Of Us Is Lying
This is a great mystery / crime story aimed at young adults but can be enjoyed by anyone from teens upwards. I can just remember my teens...


After She's Gone
This is an emotionally overflowing novel from the start. Written from the perspective of Lori, sister to Jessie, daughter of Dana Golden,...
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