A Bookish Holiday

"The birds preferred it, and to her, the birds were the point." ~Francine Mathews, page 25 The Summary: No-nonsense Nantucket detective...

~Jane Austen Indeed, Jane, indeed. And one--especially this reader--can never tire of books by or about this incredible author And Gill...

Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of...

"Being unladylike feels so...exciting." ~Juliet Tilney Claudia Gray's newest novel imagines a world in which the incorrigible Mr. Wickham...

Paul Holes is a retired cold case investigator who has worked some of the most notorious cases in the country, including the Golden State...

Sarah Adlakha's debut, She Wouldn't Change a Thing (Forge Books, August 2021) is blurbed as a "mind-bending story" and for me it...

I've got a little bit of a book hangover here... First, a confession. I didn't like The Silent Patient. No big deal; it just wasn't the...

Starfish, Nancy Paulson Books, 2021 "Does everybody make somebody feel like a nobody?" Using humor and a huge dose of heart, Lisa Fipps...

Gina Wilkinson brings her experience as a journalist and "dependent spouse" living in Iraq under the regime of Saddam Hussein and the...

Happiest Book Birthday to The Perfect Guests! I'm so delighted to be part of the blog tour (my very first!) for Emma Rous and her...

Ok, yes, I'm a few days off from when I actually wanted to post this (New Year's Eve), but there were a bunch of distractions this year...

Cathy Bonidan’s The Lost Manuscript is an epistolary novel that follows Anne-Lise, who, while on vacation on the Brittany coast, finds an...

Nina LaCour's latest Watch Over Me (published September 15, 2020), was just lovely. It's one of those quiet sorts of books, so if you're...

Happy publication day! Friends, you're going to want to get your hands on a copy of The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett. This book is...

This was a great read! Creepy and deliciously atmospheric, and that cover is just perfect. I love books set in Scandinavia and this one...

Claire lives with husband Duncan and son Joe in a beautiful estate overlooking the water. But she's desperate to get away from Duncan and...

If you're looking for compulsively readable books, you can't go wrong with the Avon Books UK lineup of upcoming releases. Caroline...

Emily Proudman's life is a disaster: her acting career has failed, she just lost her job, and she's being evicted from her dumpy little...

Everything about The Mulberry Tree (Candlewick Press, July 14, 2020) was lovely. It starts with that cover, which perfectly captures the...

You know what they say: "when one book closes, another one opens..." Fresh off my last exciting read, The Shadows (Alex North, Celadon...