The second book in the critically acclaimed Chastity Riley series. On a warm September morning, a man is found unconscious and tortured in a cage at the entrance to the offices of one of Germany’s biggest magazines. He’s soon identified… Read More ›
Book Reviews
Call Me Star Girl by Louise Beech
A Tales Before Bedtime Sunday Review Sometimes you discover an author and there is an instant connection. You soak up their words and disappear into their worlds. Whenever you hear there is a new offering on the horizon your ears… Read More ›
Read Christie 2019 – The official Agatha Christie Reading Challenge
If you’ve visited my site recently you may well have guessed I’m rather fond of an Agatha Christie story. Growing up I enjoyed watching Hercule Poirot on television (both Peter Ustinov and David Suchet) and I still watch them to… Read More ›
Book Launch – The Night I Met Father Christmas by Ben Miller
It was a damp and mild November evening when the Fallows family headed up to London. Nature is giving a wonderful display of autumnal colour; golden brown, fiery reds and burnt orange underfoot with sticky, mushy leaves wet from the… Read More ›
Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
EVERYONE’S GOING TO REMEMBER WHERE THEY WERE WHEN THE TAPS RAN DRY The drought – or the tap-out, as everyone calls it – has been going on for a while. Life has become an endless list of don’t: don’t water… Read More ›
The Museum of Cathy by Anna Stothard
The Museum of Cathy by Anna Stothard Today I would like to throw back to a title published in 2016 by Salt Publishing. It was fantastic and even now, more than two years later I’m still thinking of it. This… Read More ›
Amy Wilson – Snowglobe
Snowglobe by Amy Wilson A shimmering , mesmerising gem of a novel, Snowglobe is absolutely stunning. I do feel we are spoilt these days with a wonderful array of children’s authors and the imaginations they possess. Amy Wilson, author of… Read More ›
Today on Tales Before Bedtime Juniors…
The Misadventures of Winnie and Wilbur by Laura Owen and Korky Paul See my review over on Tales Before Bedtime Juniors.
The 2018 Fowey Festival of Art and Literature and Harriet Evans – A Guest Post by Liz Robinson
I recently attended the Fowey Festival of Art and Literature, as I waltzed down to the marquee where Veronica Henry was due to chat to Harriet Evans, the view stopped me in my tracks, simply gorgeous, could there be a… Read More ›