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A collection of mindful poems about embracing everyday joys. At the start of this poetry collection, Sarah Bizsley shares that when she started reading poems daily she started to feel happier and more grounded in the present. Being a Happy Mind is the result of those feelings and the poems within this collection celebrate the everyday. From Hiakus and Limericks to longer form poems, this collection puts the little joys in the spotlight and in doing so encourages the reader to focus on the small things in life we enjoy, and to be grateful for them. It would appear that ... View Full Review
The third in a quartet of books, They Tested Our Loyalty is a thriller that follows an agent on the run, and the hunt for missing government intelligence. The events of this book follow immediately on from the previous and although there are plenty of times that key information is repeated, I think it would be of benefit to start this series at the beginning so you can keep a grasp on the characters and their involvement in the plotlines in order to better enjoy the book. After a deadly meeting at a remote Scottish home we follow Russian agent ... View Full Review
Born in a Storm by Mark Carew is a really interesting thriller. Focusing on the power of the energy industry and the threat to that power and their profits if a free, green, energy solution was found. With involvement and cover-ups reaching the highest echelons of the US government, it’s a race against powerful enemies for the three young physicists, protected by Mackenzie James and Angelina Cohen to develop the clean energy technology.
The flashes between the interview and the action does remove some of the “will they make it” tension, but the plotline is ... View Full Review
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An emotional and compelling exploration of the Australian Lark Forces stationed in Rabaul during World War II. Jake Friedman is an idealistic young Jewish doctor from Melbourne, haunted by the death of a colleague injured on their way to a callout to try to help treat children with polio. Wracked by guilt he was unable to help either of them he feels compelled to enlist into the Australian Army, when being shipped to his post in Rabaul he encounters Wip, who served in World War I and stands up to bullies but who has a past he&... View Full Review
A chance encounter sees old friends reunite, old flames rekindled and old passions explored anew. Rem Bruxvoort is at a liminal place in his life. Middle aged, separating from his fiancé and still feeling the fallout of the pandemic one year on he is a character that is somewhat adrift until a chance reunion with a former bandmate that leads to a search for a lost master tape and opens more doors. Rem’s Chance offers us a snippet of these character’s lives, reflections on the past and how things have changed and rediscovering the passions ... View Full Review
Is this real life, or is it just fantasy? In a futuristic world where coastal cities like Venice are underwater and cities like Paris have been destroyed by nuclear war, they only live on through memory and uploaded on to a virtual reality called Flow. Actor Nikolai Vasilyev spends his time drinking and wallowing in the past and immersing himself in the career he wished he still had through Flow. When he agrees to deliver a strange gift in exchange for food and alcohol, he is dragged into a surreal series of events, never sure if he is hallucinating, trapped ... View Full Review
Fast-paced, perceptive and oh so very, very clever this is an amazing must-read financial thriller which is totally mind blowing! Rob Tanner is Chief Operating Officer in a major UK bank. On Christmas Eve he receives a red flag phone call from the bank’s Chief Risk Officer confirming a thousand of the bank’s accounts have inexplicably increased exactly ten fold in the past twenty fours hours. On the same day Martin Kellet, the highly unpopular Chief Executive Officer, receives an enigmatic email from Joen van Aken referring to the inflated bank accounts. Tanner learns that Joen ... View Full Review
Police Officer Travis Holiday finds himself in Carnage Coast, where he is pulled into the battle between God and Lucifer and serves as God’s Iron Warrior in order to save the world. Opposing him is Lucifer (or Luc’s) chosen Queenpin Sensation, working to pass The Free Love initiative, promising a promotion of sexual freedom, access to all drugs and more for the renouncing of your soul and the abolition of God and organised religion. But the water gets murky the more Travis and Sensation cross paths, will he be able choose God and save humanity, or ... View Full Review
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Octogen is set in 2065, 35 years after global attacks wiping out use of fossil fuels and leading to a significant reduction in economic activity. The events of eleven / eleven led to the creation of an international coalition in order to ensure that resources don’t run out, and personal liberties are restricted. Deputy Jack Tirrand is a part of this collective authority INCOL, a rising star of the London Assembly, but all that is about to change as he realises the future and safety of his family is not as secure as he ... View Full Review
An engaging story of lasting friendship, love and loss. The author's style of writing is so natural you could really feel the firm bond between childhood friends Erin & Sasha come to life. I particularly enjoyed the descriptions of their plans for the weekends, getting ready for nights out and the amount of time taken to decide on the perfect outfit! The story covers the highs of both girls working together in a close knit team and both having a supportive family network to the lowest point when Sasha has a shockingly fatal accident just after passing her driving test. ... View Full Review
Nothing Short of Odd by Loredano Cafaro is an entertaining, easy to read collection of 16 short stories covering a variety of topics and themes from dreams and childhood to work, marriage, relationships and death. From the first story I really enjoyed the writing style, the author does a really good job of drip feeding the reader small pieces of a puzzle then delivering one final echoing sentence that sheds light on the whole story and gives you pause. ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’ was a clever interpretation using a well-known figure. ‘Private Paradise’ was one of my favourites ... View Full Review
A charming story involving a young man searching for information about his late grandmother’s family, interwoven with descriptions of acts of bravery undertaken by a French family in Sablé-sur-Manse as part of the French Resistance in World War Two. Ben Griffiths is a young man grieving for his Nana who died of pneumonia in a care home in North Wales during the Covid 19 pandemic. Now she has gone, he is saddened as he realises how little he and his parents actually knew about her early life. He recalls that his father had stored a bag belonging ... View Full Review
