The Midas Code by Boyd Morrison combines a legendary curse with a race against time. Dare you read on to find out if it’s one for you? A Thrilling Adventure From Page One This is an action-packed adventure right from the start and after that there’s no let up. It centres on the hunt to […]
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A Yorkshire Crime Thriller with Atmosphere and Bite A Deadly Likeness by Lesley McEvoy is a sharp, tense Yorkshire thriller that hooks you from page one. It’s wonderfully atmospheric with moody landscapes and a sense that danger can lurk in the most familiar places. A Deadly Likeness is book three of five in the Murder
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Our latest book club pick was The Coach Trip by Jo Lyons. It’s a light-hearted, feel‑good rom‑com centred around Nell, whose life goes from shaky to shambolic in record time. Nell is passed over for a long-held promotion. That’s bad enough. But when it goes to Ava, her younger, prettier, more popular but highly inexperienced
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Imagine battling the elements for survival on a remote Scottish archipelago. Your entire world consists of the struggles and successes of a small close-knit crofting community way out in the Atlantic Ocean. For over two thousand years people lived on St Kilda. But in 1930 the islanders’ wish to be evacuated was granted and, after
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The Last Hill Walker by John D. Burns is the author’s personal story of falling in and out of love with the hills. It’s the debut book by this best-selling author, but I read the highly entertaining follow-up (Bothy Tales) first. In my humble opinion, you don’t need to read them in order. In The
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The Guest List by Lucy Foley is a classic whodunit with a twist. It’s set on the rugged, bleak and peat-bog landscape of a recently reinhabited island off the coast of Connemara. The guests have assembled for the celebrity wedding of the year (Will Slater and Julia Keegan). But someone intends to spoil the party.
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is part coming-of-age and part gothic mystery. This atmospheric novel is set in post Spanish Civil War Barcelona and starts off when ten-year-old Daniel is taken to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books by his bookshop owner father. A book that will change his life For his
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A Little Bird Told Me by Rachael Gray is a cosy crime mystery where Laurel Nightingale moves to a pretty Yorkshire village and on her first day discovers a body. What is A Little Bird Told Me about? Criminal psychologist Dr Nightingale has moved ‘Up North’ to start again. But things don’t start out too
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Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (translated by Sophie Hughes) follows the story of millennial expat couple Tom and Anna’s pursuit of the perfectly styled Berlin life. What is Perfection about? Let me first say that Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico isn’t my usual read. Fairly or unfairly, the phrase ‘shortlisted for the International Booker Prize’ takes me
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The New Neighbours by Claire Douglas is the most recent psychological thriller by this best-selling author and is the latest Crawcrook Book Club read. What’s the story about? In this novel we find ourselves in Bristol with forty-something Lena who is struggling with big changes. Her marriage has floundered. Her teenage son will soon fly
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