Edited in November 2021, this wonderful novel is the fifth in the Stella Bled series.
Paris 1940
The Reich is moving in and Stella Bled Lawrence can’t get out.
Stella has proved adept at the double agent game, too adept as it turns out. The British want her to stay where she is, even though she’s about to be trapped, and worse, the Nazis want to expand her work into [sic] a distressing direction.
When two Nazi agents go rogue, Stella is at the right place at the wrong time. She ends up on the worst mission possible and her Nazi handler Villemain demands success or else.
Stella thinks she can use this new mission to get herself and her poodle, Bijou, out of Paris. It isn’t the best place to be between food shortages, roaming packs of abandoned dogs, and desperate people with the Wehrmacht marching ever closer.
One problem leads to another and Stella’s assigned to work on the Reich’s plan for theft on a grand scale with sidelines into documenting Jewish art and apartments. Everyone wants something and Stella thinks she has nothing left to give until she realizes her wretched assignments might be used to help the people she cares about instead of hurting them. It’s a huge gamble, but she’s willing to take it.
Once she’s on the job, her expertise in art gets noticed and delivers an opportunity that the British never thought they’d have. The ultimate sacrifice is always on the table and Stella will have to make a devastating choice. People won’t survive. The question is…will Stella?
This lovely companion for days out in Cornwall was edited in October 2021.
Breath-taking views, with wonderful places to stop and explore.
Cycling in Cornwall provides everything you need for a great day out. This guidebook is for leisure cyclists who want to explore Cornwall and get away from the crowds and off the roads.
Thirteen enjoyable, stress-free cycle rides ranging from 2 – 24 miles, covering 160 miles in total.
Rides for all abilities and ages.
Each ride is clearly described with points of information along the way.
Colour map for each ride plus .gpx downloads.
Graded from easy to challenging. Includes parking, loos, and places to eat.
Most rides are traffic free or feature quiet, country lanes.
Trails include the South-West Coast Path, The Cornish Way, the Camel Trail and the Mining Trails, amongst others.
Edited in October 2021, this is the seventh and the Mark Noble series of space adventures.
Two books in one volume
Cybernetic Tyrant
Mark and the team have returned from deep space and discover that NASA seems to be run by robots. They are met by one in Earth orbit which refuses to allow them to communicate with Houston and also has locked the visiting scientists from Herade in the passenger compartment. It assumes the aliens are animals and stops all communication between the two species.
Finally, Mark, Anna, Bill, Chan and Mary are shipped back to Earth, but the reception they receive is totally unexpected and frightening. What has happened to their friends and colleagues while they’ve been away?
Deep Space Visitor – a second adventure in the same volume.
After celebrations to welcome the Heradians, Mark’s team are discussing how much help they need to occupy their original world in the Trappist-1 system. Development work on the spolding drive has meant that an expedition is also being planned to the pristine Earth the team had accidentally stumbled upon on the first main Trappist-1 expedition.
Just when they begin discussing the plan, Anna walks into the office and announces more information on a vague signal being received from deep in the solar system between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus.
What is it, and why does it lead to a spolding expedition to Nu Lupi, almost fifty lightyears from Earth?
Edited in September 2021, this is an emotional and gripping story.
You paid the price for wanting what you couldn’t have. Now DNA tests threaten to expose what you spent a lifetime hiding…
As an ambitious young woman in the years following the Second World War, Barbara made some hard choices, decisions changing everything that came after. She had to fight for what she wanted; then the stakes got so much higher.
A continent away, and decades later, Barbara’s daughter hires genealogist Karen Copperfield to make sense of the family’s DNA tests. Nothing about the results ties in with what Barbara’s children believed, and the shock is tearing the family apart. Barbara seems to prefer death to revealing the truth, and Karen soon discovers there is more than one secret she intends to take to her grave.
But when threats start to come from both sides of the Atlantic, it soon becomes clear that Barbara is not the only person who wants the past to stay that way.
DNA Never Lies is the first in a series of novels featuring Karen Copperfield, investigative genealogist. Karen helps people make sense of sometimes dark family secrets revealed by DNA tests as they ask: ‘what happens when nothing you believed is true?’
Escape into this emotionally gripping novel, packed with psychological suspense, for readers who love Kate Morton, Lucy Atkins and Barbara Vine.
A social media influencer. Millions of followers. One sadistic blackmailer.
Jessica Leigh is a social media tech influencer at the top of her game, and she intends to keep it that way. So when an up-and-coming tech company wants her to demonstrate their new brain chip, she jumps at the chance, despite her husband’s misgivings. After blazing rows between the couple, Jessica’s eye starts to wander and before long, she becomes entangled in a new love affair.
But little does she know she’s being watched, and after an encounter with a sadistic blackmailer, she must find a way to prevent her new love affair from going viral.
Bad Connections is the new novel by J. M. Eckford. If you like Sex and the City and Black Mirror, you’ll love this dark women’s fiction with a near-future, dystopian twist.
Another wonderful and humorous instalment in the Guesthouse on the Green series as Mammy and Moira travel Vietnam.
I love the series and can't wait for book four!
A quick but emotional read - reading about the cruelty to the dog was heartbreaking but this was a lovely tale of the love and healing that animals can bring to our lives.
I would have given five stars but for the missed typos - a few t...
I get the impression that this could be a nice story but I've had to give up after forcing myself to go as far as 15% of the way through. If this novel has ever been near a remotely professional editor then the author was conned.
Chapte...
Another very enjoyable story but with a few niggles, hence the four stars rather than five. Maybe it's because I was tired but the editing issues grated on me more than in the first story and, do people really generally believe that 'ear...
Edited in April 2021.
