Bronte Tempestra is striving to be a lady Knight.
But the snag is in her world it's a career dominated by boys.
Sir Sebastian's school has just allowed girls to be admitted to its hallowed halls.
But to Bronte's surprise the other students don't even seem to want to BE knights, they are lazy.
Then the famous Lightning steeds go missing, the kingdom is in danger.
Bronte knows that no one will help her to solve this situation but herself.

Ramoa island was once very beautiful yet now it's gone wild and is roamed by dangerous beasts.
No one is allowed to go there but three children break the rules yet.
Alethea is a healer and needs to find a cure for whatever is plaguing her district.
Rustus is the son of a high born family but has shamed them when he failed a task so is thrown out in disgrace to the Beaslands.
Kayla is a sky cadet whose flying pangron has been snatched.

Rose Darke doesn't have it easy.
Life is complicated, her gran died recently, her home life is challenging as her parents work hard to provide enough and school is a nightmare due to bullying Emer.
Then one cold night a mysterious being called an Ice Giant landw in the garden and gives her a magical stone to look after.
But unbeknownst to Rose that stone is the object that will help her to save the last remaining magic left in Ireland.

Rayleigh Mann is just a regular kid or so he believes, occasionally he strays into a bit of of trouble but nothing serious.
But on his twelfth Halloween much to his shock he meets a real, live monster who reveals his father is really The Bogey man.
Ultimate leader of a place called Belpw London.
But he has gone missing and the one best placed to find him is his son, Rayleigh.
He somehow has the key and skills to locating his father...

Evan Taft has great plans for his future, gap year in Alaska, looking after his mother and little brother, continue in therapy after his father leaving.
Then his mother gets a bad health diagnosis.
Then his dreams fade
Shosh Bell also has big dreams she desperately wanted to go to performing arts college in LA.
But then her sister is killed in a drunk driving incident and her life spirals out of control.
Then she too hears that mysterious voice.

Jo Sorsby is going through a hard time.
She has recently split with her boyfriend so is trying to mend and needs a new start.
This comes in the form of her mother asking her to take over sick uncle Wilbur's stationary shop.
It starts out as a chore and favour but she finds she is good at it and has a natural empathy with her customers and is making friends.
Life is good and she realises she isn't the failure at it that she once believed.

Fifteen years ago Sara Linton was viciously attacked, it destroyed her life and changed her forever.
Since that night Sara has worked hard to move on and has a career as a successful doctor, she is engaged and on the surface seems to have moved on.
Until one evening she is on duty and is called upon to save the life of a young lady who has been brutally attacked.
But this case has all the hallmarks of what happened to Sara that night.

Laure Mesne seems to have it all, a talent for dance and a place at the Paris Opera Garnier
Bit the truth is far different, she is a black girl from the wrong side of the tracks with a tough background while growing up.
She is set amongst the privileged elite of the dance school, moneyed titled white girls.
No matter how hard she tries she doesn't seem to get a chance
In frustration she strikes a bargain with an evil, twisted supernatural being.

Steven is only seventeen yet he seems to have the weight of the world on his shoulders as he has some weird, secret powers, that aren't Erm postivie.
For instance his first kiss with a boy made his head explode.
Terrified at what he caused and that he killed someone he runs away and goes to a place called Grunsby on sea.
He thinks he can avoid people and not cause them anymore harm as his emotions are causing him to do things he can't control.

Nikki wants to be a pop music star, it's her dream and all she wants to do with her life.
But at home her life is chaos.
She and her mother don't get on at all and after a huge row between her and her sister Vae she is so furious she is determined to leave and go to California to attend an audition to start a new life.
But before she escaped her friend and crush Malachai discovers her plans and pleads with her to give him time to change her mind.

Shaun Thompson is into rap and when he hears of a raptology competition he thinks it's the answer to his prayers as there is prize money which will help with his mam's rent so they won't have to move out plus it has the added bonus of giving him some kudos to attract Tanisha, the most popular girl at school. But when embarrassing stuff accidentally goes viral during a rehearsal Tanisha wants nothing to do with him.

This sounded so exciting and it didn't disappoint.
Affi Dusku has had a terrible history.
She was part of a human trafficking gang but luckily escaped and is now living in Scotland.
But the gang has found her.
She goes out for a run on her fifteenth birthday and doesn't return.
Her Foster parents contact the police and a search ensues and given her background the threat is taken very seriously.
She has successfully broken away until now.

Bob and Malcolm are best friends and they have their minds and hearts set on winning the Griffin talent contest with their band.
But they have competition, their arch enemy Eno Fezzinuff has entered too.
Bob can time travel and in the future he sees Eno has created a deadly selfie camera that turns its subject into a zombie.
Bob, Malcolm and their sidekick Gloria have to stop him in the present before that alternate future can turn into reality.

Lara Bloom is according to her a hot mess that needs a glow up as quickly as possible.
Why?
Well there is the handsome bew boy at school, Caiden.
He is all the inspiration she needs to glow up as surely a boy like that wouldn't be interested in a girl like her would he?
Doubting her own abilities and looks she sets out to win Caiden's heart.
But its not going to be so easy as the mean Sienna is set on stopping her getting together with Caiden.

This was a charming read, I think it would engage quite young children as the illustrations are so vibrant.
The story is all about a mother penguin who takes her penguin "children" on a walk through the woods one wintry day.
While out and about the little penguins start frolicking about and get lost in the snow so its upto the reader to help mother penguin to locate them all by lifting the little flaps on each page and counting them all.

Ivy has constantly searched for her mother throughout her life and now she believes she has found her on a remote Welsh island.
But when faced with her daughter her mother is paralysed with fear and wants her to go.
She is scared for her.
But it's already too late as she has awoken something malignant that is seeking her out.
Merlin wants Ivy for his own devious reasons.
When her mother is kidnapped it's upto Ivy and the witches to save her.

Kitty Collins has a big secret she is trying to rid the city of predatorial men who prey on her friends or other women
Her first kill was a pure accident when she is followed home and attacked and a quick shove ends in an injury causing death but from then on in Kitty sees how easy it is to rid the world of a sadistic, criminal element.
But Kitty still is also dealing with a psychotic stalker who claims to know all her deepest and darkest secrets.

Robyn and Ralph live in Africa at Crocodile lodge helping their father to tend the wildlife.
But all of a sudden that peace is shattered when an evil presence starts stalking the local animals.
Suspicion falls on their hermit like, eccentric millionaire neighbour.
When they go scouting around trying to find out what he is upto they find more than they bargained for.
He has reincarnated an ancient evil that is stalking the land.

A comet is just about to strike Earth and people are scrambling for survival, Petra Pena and her family are among the lucky ones to gain a place on board ship that plans to leave and colonise another planet.
But things don't go as planned, a sinister takeover has happened on board and the "Collective" is now in charge.
They are culling those of the survivors not deemed necessary.
Petra wakes up she alone, her family gone, she is the last...

Max Mullers has grown up around magic and performing, his nan taught him everything.
One day while minding his father's market stall the local bully Bottley, gets him into serious trouble with the Crayfish twins who run a protection racket.
When their suit gets damaged due to Bottley Max gets the blame.
Now he and his family have to find £250 to pay them back.
Max is ably helped by his friends, and a magic hat that caused his dog Lucky to talk.

Deina is forced into being a soul severer and her dearest wish is to escape, she is working hard to change her life and every mortal soul she takes to the dead realms helps her to work off her fee and attain her freedom.
But King Orpheus offers her a way out, a way to gain her liberty quicker than she could ever imagine.
All she has to do to attain it is help to free his Queen Eurydice from the underworld.

The year is 1629, Mayken and Imke her nursemaid are on board the Batavia
But this sinister ship has dark happenings stirring and the tension is unbearable, the lives of everyone are in danger.
In 1989 Gil has lost his mother so is sent to live with his reclusive grandfather Joss a fisherman living off the Australian coast.
Gil is struggling to fit in but finds an interest in the local history and is learning about what happened to the Batavia.

Kiara Johnson has never had the opportunity to actually be a child or a teen she has always had to be the responsible one in the family.
Now she is trying to help a local kid, Trevor in a similar situation with an absent mother.
In desperation she starts street walking but the day she gets picked up by the local police her life changes into one of being at their beck and call for obscene purposes.
Is she brave enough to escape this life?

Alfie is the father of twin girls Sylvie and Cassia, but now he has gone from a stable family environment to single father when his partner Pippa suddenly died.
He know he isn't coping well with even day to day domesticity but he finally cracks and calls in the children's aunt Julia when they reveal to him that they have been having a "visitor" to their room late at night.
Can Alfie and Julia save the girls before it's too late?

This cannot fail to delight any bookworm or even historian.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, it's just a veritable cornucopia of book facts and little nuggets of trivia and information.
Some of it can be very sensitive and contentious at times due to the topic matter, book burnings in Germany, the war years, modern demonstrations and book burning of banned books.
But also plenty of light hearted subjects too, books made of cheese, slices of meat etc.

Lily Thane knew Adam Harker from many years ago when they were at stage school together.
Never huge friends she is still willing to pretend to be his “arm candy” as he is on the cusp of stardom and as a struggling actress herself she is keen to get any reflected glory.
Lily is having a great time attending parties and celeb get togethers.
Then comes the night of the party to end all parties, when Lily finds Adam dead...

Max is like millions of other children, his normal world has changed and his new way of life is home schooling and staying at home with his mother while his father is a front line worker.
After a ticking off from his mam he is told to count to a hundred.
But Max is taking it further, he is trying to count to a million.
He started doing the extra counting as a personal challenge but somehow its gone beyond that and is a community event.

Ursula Byrne and Rafael Banks have a unique start to their relationship, for nearly 100,000 between them they are matched ONLY one chance, one date or match with a dating service called "The Arc."
They meet, they get on great and fall head over heels in love as per description of the dating agency guidelines, one perfect match with every nuance calculated, balanced and perfectly calibrated.
BUT their relationship hits a glitch that causes chaos.

I‘m the era of the thirty years war a new hero for the age emerges, out of death destruction.
His mother supposedly hung herself yet was found with a silver charm of a wolf in her hand.
His father was murdered and Jack is hellbent on revenge.
As he attains adulthood he sets off on a quest of retribution that carries him the length and breadth of Europe, Amsterdam, France, culminating in the bloody battlegrounds of Germany.

Had high hopes of this one as I really enjoy wartime novels but it didn't quite live up to my expectations.
At times it seemed rather directionless and the flitting back and forth between characters and situations is always something I struggle with and may also be the same for other readers.
I didn't really bond with any of the characters either.
The sisters Emma and Audrey I found a little cold and emotionless overall.
Not the best in its genre

Madeleine Pelligrew is a prisoner, trapped in a mental institution and moved on to another at regular intervals she can‘t understand why she is there or what she has done to deserve this fate with little hope of escape.
But one day after fourteen years imprisonment help unexpectedly arrives.
A man has come to arrange for her release.
Confused and afraid to trust she is still set on finding out why this happened and the truth behind it all.

It is 1642 and the midst of poilitical turmoil and civil war.
The king and Parliament are in a life and death struggle for supremacy while families and friends are torn apart due to their personal beliefs and politics.
Jayne Swift a lady doctor stays above all this and ministers to anyone who needs aid no matter whom they are.
Intrigued by this strange lady with no political affiliation she has taken the interest of the enigmatic William Harrier.

I enjoyed this so much, dark, brooding and downright spooky for this time of year, such a perfect read.
Nell and her husband along with his daughter Maude all go for a break to a holiday cottage let near the sea.
But from the very first Nell is unsettled by the seemingly idyllic looking cottage.
There are weird carving up in the attics ceiling, strange things hidden within its walls.
The house changes and affects them all in different ways.

I don‘t read all that much fantasy or kind of fairytale novels but this was a refreshing take on the genre.
It‘s the turn of the century and one night in the midst of a storm something is blown through the window of Cassie‘s bedroom.
Instantly she feels a connection to this being and tries her hardest to take care of it.
Though around this same time her best friend Raphael starts acting strange.
Slowly he is transforming into something special.

Really enjoyed this tense, claustrophobic thriller.
This started off as a bit of a slow burn but then really picked up the action.
Bron, Georgie and Lissa have been friends for a long time, united by their love of swimming.
But now they are drawn together to mark Lissa's death.
For inexplicably though a professional swimmer she drowned at sea.
The girls just can't get their heads around is how a professional swimmer can so easily drown?

Omg wow, this was engaging from the first page!
Summer and Iris are twins, both have always been diametrically different to the other.
To the outside world they look close abd as if they get on well but the problem is Iris, she has ALWAYS wanted whatever Summer has.
One day she gets a phone call from Summer begging Iris to go to Thailand to sail the family yacht but then Summer goes missing after a supposed accident...

This sounded so good from the blurb but I found it such a dull read overall.
It starts in the late 1950s where Drummond meets the well to do Carter while they are both doing their military service.
Though from totally different backgrounds and life experiences they strike up a friendship.
They age, finish the national service and get married and in time have children.
Civilian life doesn't change the friendship that was formed.

Wow this was just mindblowing, such an exciting yet terrubly sad story.
In 1945 nine women were forced onto a death march.
Knowing what happened at the end of one of those marches they bravely decided to risk running for their lives and trying to escape together.
This is their story.
Travelling across a war torn country, danger dogging their every step hoping to find aid this is a no holds barred horrific depiction of that journey.

Petra has employed Nisha to lolok after her daughter, Aliki.
As a foreign domestic worker Nisha is just one of thousuands of such ladies.
Nisha works hard, tries to keep her romance with Yiannis a poacher a secret.
Then one day she goes missing and as just one of many the local police just don't care.
When they give up and investigate the case on their own they find the truth more devastating and dark than they could have imagined.

I loved this, a really feel good summery read and as a fan of the Durrells I just totally appreciated the culture, exptic country and literary aspect of the story.
Penny has broken up with her uncaring fiance Bruce.
Her father has just died and she decides on the spur of the moment to go to Corfu in honour to his memory.
She is instantly enchanted with the magic of the island and falls in love with the place and the people.

Wow just wow!!!
The author was totally taken in by an extremely charming con man called Mark Acklom.
Absolutely fascinating and shocking account of the whole bizarre story.
He was such a clever scammer he insidiously swindled her for thousands of pounds to the point she lost her job, her friends, family her home, money for her daughters college funds and all her savings.
He was such a grand master at the tall stories even that he was a spy!!!

Love Karin Slaughter, she writes such a taut, exciting thriller and this was no exception.
Leigh Collier is settled in her life and her career as a defence attorney.
Then one day she is asked to represent a high profile case which could do wonders for her professionally.
Clueless as to why she has been asked to take it, the pieces soon slot into place when she meets her client.
She knows Andrew Tennant from her distant past...

This was such a wonderful read, bloody, gruesome and totally my kind of thing.
I love all kinds of horror and true crime.
But this was a crime book with a difference, it followed the HISTORY of murder in all its guises.
From the laws and ramifications of murder and the early days of those creating the penalties for it down to even more modern crimes and serial killers or famous cases.

Hana Khan's family own a restaurant that is just not paying its way anymore.
Still they struggle on but they are faced with new competition when another restaurant is swt to open on their own patch.
Their new business rival is Aydin, a total heartbreaker who she simultaneously is attracted to and and hates for the distress he is causing.
Her radio job, podcast and a secret admirer are what keeps her sane amidst the family turmoil.

I knew aboslutely nothing about this lady, I didn't even clock her being on tv but it was recommended to me so gave it a go.
I really enjoyed it, such a good read.
Far from being well versed in food which is the field she ended up in she came from such a humble background where food was considered more of a fuel than a luxury.
This was at times very sad, touching and very emotional.

I got this as I thought by the blurb it sounded really interesting and maybe beneficial and helpful to me but I was a little disappointed.
Some of his theories and ideas I found fascinating and they sounded really sound, I especially liked the sections on sleep, meditation and that kind of self help, I might even apply some of them into my lifestyle.
Overall though as I said I did quite enjoy it as a read and picked up some good hints and tips.

This was exciting and hooked me into the story from the start.
The scene is set when a family are saying goodbye after a visit, the phone rings and a regular suburban housewife answers, the result of that one phone call is enough to make that lady shoot her husband in the head then escape the house.
Sara Nowak works for another division so isn‘t given the shooting case of Stellan Broman but she investigates alone and finds dreadful secrets...

Oh my goodness, I have never read a T M Logan novel before, why did I wait so long?
He is incredible.
Ellen Devlin is desperate for a child of her own to the point its destroying her marriage.
One day while on a train a young mother asks her to hold her baby, Ellen of course is happy to do so.
But then the lady leaves without her child.
Searching the baby bag she finds a note telling her to look after Mia but trust NO one, not even the police.

When Ada Howell died, she didnt adjust well.
She didnt so much as grieve for him as for the entitled lifestyle, social standing and privileges she has lost.
No luxuries or fun things and she feels cheated!
Struggling to cope with a dull, humdrum life when hwe godmother offers to pay for an art course in Italy.
Then one night to gain the students trust she freely offers to cover up a dreadful crime that resulted in another student's death.

This was such a quirky read abd i just fell in love with the character of Madame Burova.
When she is given two envelopes that she is told to pass on under her own judgement when the time is right she seeks out their recipient, Billie.
Those envelopes open a whole can of worms both for Madame Burova and Billie as they contain information that ultimately affects them both.
Contacting Billie leads to consequences for both.