Category: Reading
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The End of Dragons by Mark Stay
What comes after the end? Well, I have been impatiently waiting for five years to find out! The same time period has passed for the characters since they were last seen in The End of Magic. We enter The End of Dragons to find many are making the most of the new world without magic…
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The Poetry Machine
There’s a fun new contraption at my local library! According to a post on the library blog, The Poetry Machine features poems submitted directly to the library from “newbies through to experienced poets, school children to more mature folk.” And it sounds like it’ll only be there for a short time – I’m glad I…
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The Trials of Lila Dalton by L. J. Shepherd
I was hooked the moment I heard about this book from fellow author friends. One author whose skills and opinion I highly respect has read an advance copy and said he’d intended to read for a few minutes before bed, but had powered through half of the book before realising how late it was! If…
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Agatha Christie biography by Lucy Worsley
I’m much more likely to find myself browsing the fiction sections at any bookshop or library, but when I was gifted Lucy Worsley’s Agatha Christie biography for my birthday, I knew I’d be packing it for my summer holiday reading. I’ve always enjoyed Worsley’s historical documentaries, so an entire book by her focused on the…
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A Rake of His Own by AJ Lancaster
A Rake of His Own by AJ Lancaster cleverly combines magic and the mundane, botany and sorcery, romance and mystery, to tell this wonderful story of two idiots falling in love while solving a murder. 🌈 Gay fae😏 Longing and lustful looks🕵️♂️ Murder, mystery, intrigue!🧐 Botanical geekery😈 Sinfully swoon-worthy audiobook narration🙄 These guys kidding no-one…