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Liz Robinson - Editorial Expert
Liz has been an Editorial Expert writing reviews for LoveReading since 2014. Reading has always played a huge part in her life and she happily describes herself as a fully fledged bookworm. By day she works for a charity, and at every other free moment devours books of all genres. She video interviews authors for LoveReading and has previously judged the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger and Crime Fiction in Translation Awards, the Romantic Novelists’ Association Romantic Novel of the Year Award, the Chiddingstone Castle Literary Festival Short Story Competition, and the LoveReading Very Short Story Award. It’s simply all about sharing the book love!
This was a rub my hands with glee moment as Q from 007 fame lines up front and centre in his own series. After being forced to leave his role within the British Secret Service, Major Boothroyd rather unexpectedly finds himself investigating a death. Author Vaseem Khan has paid due respect to the original novels while spinning the first in this new series in a completely new and rather wonderful direction. Having read Khan’s first two award-winning crime series set in India, and with his own background in the UCL’s Department of Security and Crime Science, it ... View Full Review
What a story! This really successful and rewarding tale based on the Tudor Queens of Henry VIII, is recognisable, yet takes history by the hand and spins it on its head. Six queens based in six castles are needed in order for Henry of Elben to protect his kingdom, yet the magic involved takes its toll. Author Holly Race has created the most imaginative of worlds, with a deep dark magic roaming with a wild intensity. It is easy to slip into the pages, I left history behind and entered a new land, I didn’t question, I just ... View Full Review
Quite simply, a knockout. Author Francesca Hornak’s fabulous debut, Seven Days of Us, was long listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 and my expectations were high as soon as I saw she had written another novel. Travelling between Oxford University in 2004, and a wedding in France fifteen years on, a group of friends lay bare their relationships, trampling over feelings and each other in the process. The author writes with a knowing pen, able to lift the veil behind the front people portray, and show the inner private version that is so often hidden. The story sweeps between ... View Full Review
This emotionally intelligent, open, and inspiring book travels through the life of the author Nic Wilson, who is beset by an illness that wasn’t diagnosed for years. It is absolutely fascinating to journey with her into her childhood, to join her as she understands how she was affected by her own mother’s illness from a young age. Witnessing the effect of nature on health, and how the author prepares to explore and befriend our natural world, created a soothing balm as I read. It feels incredibly personal, the story here is intimate and at times hemmed ... View Full Review
An absolute stunner of a read, which sits as a fabulous standalone, but nudges perfection when joined to the Dogs of War series. This series is one of the most immersive I have read, it is all too easy to compare the books to our current reality yet it roars into a science fiction future of bioforms and Martians. In Bee Speaker, a distant call for help is heard on Mars, a planet colonised and engineered for survival. Author Adrian Tchaikovsky spins out a universe while narrowing the focus to the individual characters, so it is at once immense and ... View Full Review
Oh what a lovely, comforting, joyous read this is, while there are dark times and layers of intricacies waiting to be discovered, it exudes warmth and compassion. Three women come together at Ocean’s End, a ramshackle house with a glorious history, they meet with secrets and sadness, yet bloom in each other’s company. The past and a fourth woman play a significant role in the storyline, all the differences merge and blend to form an eventful and evocative story. Author Faith Hogan writes with her trademark empathetic pen, it feels as though she knows these women ... View Full Review
Well now, isn’t this gorgeous! This is a book to fall into, it’s both simple and intricate, unmistakable and intriguing, and it’s beautiful too. Author Rosemary Gladstar, has collated many words, quotes, voices, thoughts, and feelings, both current and from history. She has picked those that inspire her, that hold meaning, and gathered them here into this book alongside pages upon pages of stunning photos and images of plants. Plants help to provide our air, food and medicine, shelter and clothing, and they are also creations of beauty. She asks that we listen, that ... View Full Review
Sleeping Beauty, but not as you know it, in fact you could possibly read this imaginative story without fully realising the link. Once known, aspects from the original twist into being while other well-known moments remain buried in the fairytale of old. Dark magic crashes down on a baby and her mother, who will do all in her power to protect her child. Author Georgia Leighton has given voice to the strength and fortitude of women when under siege. Seventeen years and five very different women follow a difficult path. In this story love is lost, lives divide, life is ... View Full Review
These stories dance with death and crime and murder, they’re compelling and fascinating too as they join and link with twelve Scottish landmarks. The locations are pivotal to each story, twisting with the words and acting as witness. The book also includes a map and information about each building which means no doubt, that you’ll be adding to your list of places to visit by the time you finish. The twelve Scottish author’s are well known, and two are co-founders of crime writing festival Bloody Scotland. James Crawford, from Historic Environment Scotland, explains in ... View Full Review
Slicing its way into my thoughts, this novel caught hold of my imagination from the very start and refused to release me from its grip. Joseph Ware finds himself snared by the Witch Tree, where a woman was executed in 1567, when he determines to catch a falling chestnut that legend promises will grant every desire. Author Scott O’Neill has the ability to take whispers of dreams and magnify them into nightmares. HIs descriptive detailing is so vivid, there were times when I wanted to shut my eyes to protect myself, and yet I couldn’t stop reading. ... View Full Review
I love it when each new book by an author becomes your favourite, and that is the case with John Sutherland, police officer turned writer. The authenticity stamps itself onto each page, as he has created a main character who follows the author’s own career as a hostage negotiator. Each outing has been one heck of an adventure. It now feels as though the author is really settling into his role and allowing his imagination the freedom to explore, and occasionally run riot, while keeping to the ethics and moral responsibilities he clearly feels. Here the series goes ... View Full Review
Every now and then I fall completely head over heels for a book, and this is one of those moments. I didn’t want the story to end, so entirely had it caught me, I just wanted to return to page one and experience the wonder all over again. Set in a land of sacred animals, emperors, and hidden magic, a high profile murder leads to an investigation by a socially awkward scholar who has risen through the ranks. I had previously met author Antonia Hodgson’s writing with the wonderful Thomas Hawkins historical crime series, so was ... View Full Review
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