Sherlock Holmes’s School for Detection edited by Simon Clark – Published by Robinson (Little, Brown Book Group) A book of eleven short stories by various writers which, according to the cover, “will...

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The Artist’s Handbook by Mark David Hatwood FRSA – Independently Published 2019 I’m rather late to reading The Artist’s Handbook, as it has already hit No. 1 on Amazon’s Art Business listings. Resulting...

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Reasons to stay alive by Matt Haig – Published by Canongate, 2015 This is the true story of Matt Haig’s life and depression. The book was a bestseller and, in many ways, it...

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Thunder Bay by Douglas Skelton – Published by Polygon, 2019 This author was recommended to me by a friend who probably reads almost as many books as I do, but for different...

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Life after Life by Kate Atkinson – Reissued by Black Swan, 2015 The author says “people always ask you what a book is about and I generally make something up as I...

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Red Berries White Clouds Blue Sky by Sandra Dallas – Published by Sleeping Bear Press, 2014 Written by the award winning American author of The Persian Pickle Club (my all time favourite...

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Trouble on the Farm by Chris Higgins – Published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2018 Bella and Sid are visiting a farm. There’ll be cows, chickens, a dog and pasties! Unfortunately, there’ll also...

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The Great North Wood by Tim Bird – Published by Avery Hill, 2018 This is the story of The Great North Wood* which is, today, largely confined to an area in and...

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Cornish Cats by Ian Heard – Published by Bossiney Books, 2003 This is my last cat related review for a while (I promise). I know this book is quite old but I recently came...

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Come A Little Closer by Rachel Abbott – Published by Black Dot Publishing, 2018  You’ve heard of football matches being a “game of two halves”, well, this, to me, was a book of...

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