Books for Grown Ups

What a book!! Set in the future, Eve of Man is a dystopian novel set in a future where Mother Nature has abandoned man and only one single female remains. Eve. Now at 16 it's time for her to do her duty and start producing girls to save the world. But.....what happens when she starts to see ... READ MORE »

A cross between Twilight and The Hunger Games, the After Darkness Falls series has kept me happily occupied for the past 10 days. This is a great one for people who love a good supernatural romance. ... READ MORE »

AD | review Based both in the 'then' of 1979 and the 'now' of 1991, The Fortune Teller's promise is a wonderful exploration of someone who is trying to reconcile the woman she wants to be, with the woman her childhood and family has made her. Read on for my full review. ... READ MORE »

AD | review This is a great autumn read and one to curl up inside with a hot drink on a cold evening. Filled with twist that will keep your wondering until the final chapters, this one will have you doubting the narrators sanity! Read on for my full review. ... READ MORE »

THE BLURB Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. ... READ MORE »

',AD | advance readers copy THE BLURB Begin the journey; discover your destiny... Ailsa doesn’t believe in faerie tales, only the monsters in them. But, with the mark on her face, most people consider her one of them—a changeling. Her secluded life shifts when she rescues two selkies from ... READ MORE »

So, I think this is going to be my last roundup post. From now on I'm going to go back to full book reviews of the books that I think are ... READ MORE »

The title of this book says is all. The Real Play Revolution: Why We Need to Be Silly with Our Kids - and How to Do It. Ash Perrin has created a book which reminds parents 0f the importance of play. In an age where technology reins, it's refreshing to find a book which not only reminds us of how ... READ MORE »

I am ridiculously late on this months reading round up, mainly because I wasn't sure whether these posts were of interest to people so I wasn't sure whether to continue with them. However, this blog is my little space and I like keeping track of what I've read and record my thoughts on them. After ... READ MORE »

When you realise it's almost the middle of June and you've still not published your May book round up! I am blaming the fact that the past two weeks have contained far too much sickness from two tiny humans than I care to mention. Moving on though, May was a pretty ... READ MORE »

GIVEAWAY - I was send two copies of Closer Than You Think for the purposes of this giveaway. It's so secret that I'm a bookworm. From time to time I am very lucky in that publishers will reach out to me to and ask me to take a closer look at a book, or in this case host a giveaway to let others ... READ MORE »

This post contains affiliate links. This has no impact on you, but if you were to purchase an item using the link provided, I may earn a small commission. Another month has flown by and before we know it, we're already a third of the way through 2019. It's going so quickly!! April hasn't been ... READ MORE »