About the Book May 1915. When his aircraft crashes in Northern France, British airman Henry finds himself stranded behind enemy lines. His survival depends on the courage and compassion of a local family who risk everything by hiding him in their farmhouse. With her village already suffering under Occupation, Marie knows sheltering Henry will put her in family in grave danger, and that peril only increases when two German officers are unexpectedly billeted with them.

It’s the first Saturday of the month which means it’s time for 6 Degrees of Separation. Here’s how it works: a book is chosen as a starting point by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best and linked to six other books to form a chain. Readers and bloggers are invited to join in by creating their own ‘chain’ leading from the selected book.

I read ten books in November, including a couple for Novellas in November. You can find my three favourite below with links to my full review or the book description on Goodreads. Check out all the books I've read so far in 2025 here. If we’re not already friends on Goodreads, send me a friend request or follow my reviews.

Blackwater (The Jonny Murphy Files Book Three) by Sarah Sultoon. Published 4th December 2025 by Orenda Books. From the cover of the book: ...

I'm starting off today with a big thank you! At some point yesterday, my blog hit 100,000 views for this year! As you can see from the image above, this is already 20% higher than last year's total and I am over the moon. I am also incredibly grateful to everyone who visits my blog whether they simply read my posts or like, comment or share.

I'm a fairly recent convert to Lindsey Kelk's writing (I know, where have I been?!) and I hadn't actually read any of her Christmas books before. So I was pleased to have the chance to listen to the audiobook of her latest Christmas Fling. Thanks to Harper Audio for my audiobook review copy from Netgalley. Laura meets her new landlord Callum in a…

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Why not join in too? Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping! What I'm…

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "A gripping tale of family, legacy, and land rights in which a father fights for control over his Oregon homestead."—Maryka Biaggio, Award-winning author of...

Top Ten 2025 Books With One-Word Titles TTT for December 2 #TopTenTuesday 📚  📚 📚 This is a freebie day, and I have chosen this theme in 2023 and in 2024. So here is my 2025 selection. I have read l…

What an odd month November was. I feel like we had three seasons in one month. New buds on trees, flowers where they hadn’t been flowers since May. Yet the leaves were falling, although not e…

This week's topic: Ten Book Group Reads This week we have a free choice of topics and I thought I'd share ten books I've read for my book group with you. I have a very exclusive book group - there's just me and three of my friends! We have a book group probably every 6-8 weeks and it's a girls' night in.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to…

Happy December! With the year almost at an end, and since I don't have a book review for today, I thought I'd let you all know how I've been doing with the reading and blogging challenges I set for myself. They include: 2025 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2025 New Release Reading Challenge 2025 What's In a Name Challenge 2025 Cloak & Dagger Challenge (NEW)

This month I added 6 new review commitments to my TBR mountain. 3 were offered to me via email widgets ; 3 were auto-approvals (All book descriptions are linked to Goodreads.) I received FOUR title…