Tina Gamble I remember when was younger, I read Shannon Hale\’s novel, The Book of a Thousand Days. I loved that book. Her characters and setting were so alive and full of wonder; it was truly a pleasurable read. Not one to disappoint, Hale has done it again, with her new novel in The Books [...]
Diane Sexton In the sequel to Almost Home, we go with Jordan Weiss as she leaves her job with the US State Department to follow a faint trail to her college love Jared – whom she has thought dead for 10 years. It turns out that far from being dead, he was known – and [...]
Diane Sexton It’s 1947, and Evie and Martin and their five-year-old son Billy (and Billy’s toy dog, Spike) transplant themselves from Chicago to India’s Himalayan hinterland in The Sandalwood Tree, Elle Newmark’s second novel. Martin has returned from the war with combat fatigue, and their marriage is struggling. Against the unrest caused by the withdrawal [...]
Naomi Cotterill Meeting one of your favourite writers – you know the ones, they make you pray for a rainy weekend just so you can spend time curled up on the couch with a book – is exciting. Interviewing one of your idols is likely to induce a state of complete hysteria, matched only by [...]
Tina Gamble Setting the atmosphere from page one, Tara Moss delivers the first in her new paranormal series about Pandora English, The Blood Countess. This is Devil Wears Prada meets Buffy the vampire slayer. Leaving her small town of Gretchenville, Pandora is looking to start her career at Mia magazine. So when an offer arrives [...]
Diane Sexton You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me is Sarra Manning’s second adult novel. All the standard ingredients for chick-lit are there – the “ugly duckling” heroine Neve, her fashion-obsessed sister Celia, the long-distance love interest William and the glamorous and sexy “man-whore” Max, with a host of supporting characters by turns superficial, [...]
Kristy McCormick A fabulous story, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul is the first novel from author Deborah Rodriguez. She has also previously written a memoir based around her experiences of living and working for five years in Afghanistan. And, right up front, I loved this book. I\’m a big fan of chick-lit, and this [...]
Tina Gamble Fireworks. Music. History. And Hope. That is what Jennifer Donnelly provides in her new novel, Revolution. Â Though it is not all. It is so much more. And it does mean so much more& I shall never look at fireworks the same way again. Before reading this book, I thought they were pretty. Just [...]
Andrea Parks Recently, a friend of mine paid $35 dollars for a ticket to see the King Tut exhibition in Ottawa, Canada – that\’s double the cost of a movie. The mysteries of Egypt – and Tutankhamen – are ever-popular and people are still willing to pay to see them. And didn\’t everyone do a [...]
Natalie Green, Colourful Words Before I even opened the front cover, I made a hasty, snap judgment that I wasn\’t going to like East of the Sun based on three factors: It\’s set in the 1920s and I normally prefer modern fiction. It\’s set in India I just read a book set in India. The [...]
Kristy McCormick As I first picked up this book I thought to myself that I had read a lot of John Grisham books over the years, but wasn\’t aware that he wrote short stories. He hadn\’t. This collection of seven short stories titled Ford County Stories is his first foray into this challenging genre. And, [...]
Indulge in Lindt’s Newest Range of Decadent Chocolate Goodies
Lindt have added temptation to our shopping carts as we make our way down the sweets aisle, with the release of their decadent new range of dessert inspired flavours in their Creation Range. Tantalise your tastebuds with; Heavenly Crème Brûlée, Velvety Vanilla Almond, Divine Hazelnut or Sumptuous Orange available in milk and dark chocolate varieties. [...]
Get Cooking with these New Fast & Fruity Pouches of Fruit Goodness
Freshfields are releasing a new range of fruitalicious way of eating and cooking with fruit in any easy to use kinda way, introducing Fast & Fruity Pouches. The new all-natural fruit pouches are a handy way of including more fruit in your everyday in a simple easy way. The new pouches are pourable, made up [...]
Get Your Vitamin Boosted Sparkling Water Bubbles on with Sodastream’s Source
Sodastream is making its comeback as the must have gadget for the kitchen and we’ve decided to test it out from a natural perspective as we take a step back in time with the updated, sleek and modern version to put fizzy goodness back into our water. As you know we don’t drink soft drinks [...]
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Win 1 of 4 DVD Packs Including; The Sapphires, Ted, Friends with Kids, Magic Mike and Lola Versus
To celebrate the release of the latest movies to be released to DVD, we have four packs of each these movies to giveaway; The Sapphires, Ted, Friends with Kids, Magic Mike and Lola Versus. Sing along with the girls from The Sapphires as they entertain the troops in Vietnam; laugh along to the the irreverent [...]
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