If you're looking for something extra to read (as well as Baby, Baby and The Labyrinth Year, which we hope you’ve bought and read!) some reviews of others you may enjoy, from Mari Howard…
Mari’s Book Club
Shadow Doctor: the Past Awaits
Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Hardback: £16.99Paperback: £9.99 (Amazon)
Ebook: £9.99 (Amazon)
When I met Adrian Plass recently, I had to restrain myself from calling him Doc. Of course, Adrian hasn’t taken up a bachelor existence in the middle of a Sussex wood, nor does he go out intermittently on mysterious errands of mercy. No, this side of the Shadow Doctor more resembles a famous sleuth who… Read More
Out of Silence
Instant Apostle, 2017
Paperback: £8.99I have enjoyed this warmly told story about a struggling psychologist’s journey towards his own healing through taking on the case of a ‘selective mute’ migrant. Each of the two main characters, Dr Mike Lewis and ‘Johnny Two’ have problems of fear and denial reactions to traumatic events, and we follow their parallel journeys towards… Read More
Destiny's Revenge & Destiny's Ruin
Books to Treasure, 2018
Paperback: £8.99by Philip S. Davies Books to Treasure (2018) Paperbacks £8.99 I’ve just completed reading this author’s Destiny series of novels for Young Adults, featuring Katelin, the reluctant and somewhat rebellious young Queen of Anestra. These second two books, very different from one another, complete the story of how Katelin, having succeeded to the throne on… Read More
Inspired
Thomas Nelson, 2018, printed & published in the U.S.A.
Paperback: £7.91 (Amazon, U.K.)Ebook: £6.99 (Kindle, U.K.)
This is a long overdue review of a fantastic book by an inspirational author. Rachel Held Evans, born into Southern U.S. evangelicalism, began questioning the ‘givens’ of Biblical faith and lifestyle as she grew into a young adult. Rather than giving in to those in her community who sidelined or justified her concerns about faith… Read More
In the Blink of an Eye
Linen Press, 2018
Paperback: £9.99Ebook: £4.79 (Kindle)
About the author: Ali Bacon lives near Bristol, where she’s actively involved with the local writing community. She has read her short stories at many literary festivals. I met Ali when we were both reading from our work at the first Hawkesbury Literary Festival (in 2015) and we both hope to be there again this year, reading and… Read More
Girl with Dove: A life built by books
William Collins
Hardback: £14.99About the author: Sally Bayley now teaches English at several Oxford colleges … but she grew up in a dreary, dilapidated house on England’s south coast, in a strange dysfunctional family. In this literary memoir, she attributes her successful escape to the books she read – each of them a ‘classic’ of its time and… Read More