I’ve never read a historical romance which dealt with addiction as it being anything other than a thing villains had a problem with, so...

The Matches Made In Scandal series have all featured women down on their luck through no fault of their own, offered a second chance by a...

There’s an absolutely amazing scene late in this book where the heroine Frances ‘Frankie’ confronts her social-climbing mother. Accusing...

I have to be honest and say that although Jack Reacher is one of my favourite fictional characters, the last few adventures haven't quite...

Third in Erica Ridley’s charming The 12 Dukes Of Christmas series of novellas, Wish Upon A Duke follows Christopher Pringle, the younger...

I’m actually going to start this review by talking about reading diversely, and how we all should be doing it. And by that, I mean that...

Youngest of the Somerset sisters, Hyacinth is delicate, vulnerable, protected. Smothered. While she was only fifteen when her parents’...

Brother and sister, Ophelia and Brandon are a pair of black cats who are dumped by the roadside after the tragic death of their owner, a...

Second in Erica Ridley’s Twelve Dukes of Christmas series set in the small town of Christmas, the hero of this one isn’t actually a duke....

Madame Eleanor Wilde is a con artist, and like all the best con artists, she knows the best way to con someone is to show them exactly...

I felt really sorry for Athena, the heroine of this story. Fleeing London disguised as a boy because her other options were unpalatable...

This is book 8 in the series, and though it would probably be ideal to start at the beginning to pick up on the worldbuilding I suspect...

After reading Barbarous, I feel as though I need a cup of tea and a lie down. It’s an absolutely rollicking adventure of a historical...

First in a new series of Regency-era mysteries, The Duke’s Agent is a fascinating whodunnit set in the northern county of Durham,...

Where Rock Your Plot differs from other plotting books is that it is unashamedly aimed at genre (read; popular) fiction. Which means it...

There are some pretty deep themes underlying this excellently written Regency romance; the hero is a soldier returned from war, and...

At its core, this is a Mary-Sue self-insert King Arthur fanfic where Arthur, Lancelot, Galahad and Percival all fall for the heroine. And...

This might be one of the most incredible true-crime books I’ve ever read - and I’ve read plenty. If you wrote this case as fiction, it...

First in Erica Ridley’s 12 Dukes of Christmas series (no, there aren’t 12 books - only 3, I believe) Once Upon A Duke introduces the...

The Everton Domestic Society provides assistance to discerning employers seeking unusual solutions. The Everton Ladies are carefully...