#BookReview – Notting Hill in the Snow by Jules Wake #NottingHillInTheSnow

From Goodreads: "Escape to Notting Hill this Christmas… From the bestselling author of Covent Garden in the Snow, this is the most romantic and charming book you’ll read this Christmas… A Notting Hill nativity… what could go wrong? Viola Smith plays the viola in an orchestra (yes really!) but this year she's been asked to...

#BookReview – The Little Brooklyn Bakery by Julie Caplin

"Take a trip to New York and the best little bakery in Brooklyn for bagels, bakes, and more than a sprinkle of romance! When Sophie Bennings arrives in New York, love is the last thing on her mind. Still reeling from a painful break up, she throws herself into her work as a food editor...

Book Review – Dead over Heels by Theresa Braun @tbraun_author

  From Goodreads: Veronica’s first date with Sebastian not only stirs up a powerful attraction, but also a series of supernatural events that will tear them apart. After countless hours of dead end online dating, Veronica meets up with Sebastian at a reportedly haunted restaurant, since he knows she has a fascination with the paranormal....

First Line Friday #2

Choose a book from your shelf and post the first sentence. I've chosen my First Line Friday from Jasmine Nights by Julia Grigson. It was only a song. That was what he thought when she'd put her hat on and left, leaving the faint smell of fresh apples behind.  At twenty-three, Saba Tarcan knows her...

First Line Friday

  First Line Friday is a new meme started by Arleigh at Historical-fiction.comChoose a book from my shelf and post the first sentence. You can even use the image which she created herself for the meme. "I'm happy being single, really I am." The Villa Girls by Nicky Pellegrino "The story of four young women...

#BookReview – The Secret Letters by Catherine Law

The Secret Letters by Catherine Law is story about duty, truth and true love set in 1992 and the latter years of World War Two in Cornwall and Prague. Rose is happily engaged to a very upright bank clerk, Will Bowman, whom her parents adore. She joins the War effort as a land girl and...

The Scent of Cherry Blossoms

This really is a lovely romantic audiobook read beautifully by Cassandra Campbell. When I first started listening to it I thought it would be full of awful clichés and I didn't think I was going to enjoy it at all, but actually as the story progressed it drew me in. I really felt transported to...