Edited in September 2021, this unusual and entertaining story about a young Nigerian teenager and his dreams of becoming a rock star is very different to anything I’ve read before.
My music. My life.
This is all sixteen-year-old Lanre Bandele dreams about – even though he is a lonely and unhappy schoolboy abandoned by his parents, staying with unsympathetic relatives and flunking his schoolwork. Still, he finds solace in his guitar playing and his secret fantasy of being a professional artist like Bob Marley. Maybe. Someday.
When an unexpected opportunity appears, it seems like his dreams can come true. As he embarks on his journey, he discovers an unexpectedly different world, colourful characters and an experience of twists and turns.
Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, this is a gripping yet tender coming of age story told with a vivid sense of place about a contemporary Nigerian teenager, music, love and above all, growing up.
A brilliant final novel in this gripping series about the Jewish gangs of New York.
How can a crooked man ever go straight?
Jewish gangster, Alex Cohen settles down in Florida surrounded by his wife and family. But his past life in the criminal underworld stalks his every move and when a bullet whizzes past his ear, he must decide whether to run or fight.
In his desire to go straight, Alex inserts himself in the East Coast porn film industry, only to find that the tentacles of the mob are clasped tight around his life. With the Feds using new laws to hunt down mob bosses, and rats in his own organization all too ready to testify against him, Alex must clean house before the authorities throw him in jail or the mob kills him to stop him ratting them out.
The seventh book in the Alex Cohen series is an historical thriller novel, which reveals the dying embers of Jewish organized crime in America. Leopold Borstinski’s crime fiction shines a light on the death of the old-style mob in an explosive finale.
Another wonderful historical romance in this lovely series.
He wants a respectable bride who will not ask for more than he can give – love. She has no need or desire to marry, and love is the only thing that might change her mind.
Hugh Brandforth, the seventh Earl of Ormsley, returns to his estate after wasting several weeks searching for a bride. He is looking forward to some much-needed rest and recreation. All is not as he left it, however, and within the space of an hour, he finds himself berated by his old nurse, assaulted by an eccentric termagant and subjected to the disrespect of her coachman.
Wishing to escape Bath and avoid the imminent proposal of a determined rake, Miss Cressida Harrington accepts Lady Ormsley’s offer of the dower house at Leighfield Park. A peaceful sojourn in the country is just what she needs. If Cressy did not expect to find the house in disarray and the garden a wilderness, these minor inconveniences do not have the power to disturb her. The unexpected presence of an earl she had no notion existed is quite another matter.
Secrets and scandal lurk behind the respectable façade of the house and grounds. Will they bring them together or drive them apart?
The fourth in the wonderful time-slip series by Michelle Vernal is an unputdownable read.
A story of love and secrets to take you to another time
Sabrina thought she’d put the past to rest, but now a secret threatens her future.
Liverpool 1982: Sabrina Flooks found the answers to why she was abandoned, but her story isn’t finished yet because while she looks to a future with Adam, her Aunt Evie has a secret that only her oldest friend, Ida and Adam’s father, Ray Taylor, know.
Liverpool 1927: Evelyn Flooks is a young woman who dreams of escaping her violent home life by opening a dressmaker’s with her mam. But a chance encounter with the swaggering Ray Taylor of the notorious Lime Street Boys gang sets her future on a course she could never have imagined.
When Sabrina learns what happened all those years ago between her aunt and Adam’s father, will she be able to reconcile Evelyn’s past with the woman she’s always known as her mother? And what does the future hold for her and Adam?
This is the second edition of book one in a series based on the ancient civilisation of Atlantis.
Exhausted by the tribulations of peace-keeping within the council of twelve the Atlantean Empsar, Con Dwig, knows something must change, and soon.Haunted by a prophecy foretelling the end of civilisation, he knows there is no time to lose.
But just when things start to run smoothly, the allegations start, and a young man Givas Voret finds himself accused of being the conduit of the prophecy. With friends in short supply and the end of the order looming, can anyone lead Atlanteans through their darkest days yet?
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...
