Christmas in July 2026

(courtesy Storm Publishing) When you dive into as many romcoms, festive or otherwise, as this reviewer does, it doesn’t take too long to spot novels which have that extra special something. Maybe it’s dialogue that sounds like it might bounce out of the mouths of actual living breathing human beings Continue Reading

If you are aficionado of festive romcoms – and if not, why not, and what did the Grinch do to your cold, dead, tinsel-starved heart? – you will be well aware that they’re all about future love. Two would-be lovers who don’t know they needed to fall in love, or Continue Reading

Who among those of us who read books like others breathe and eat – to be fair we all breathe and eat but let’s just go with this overblown comparison for the sake of the review, shall we? – hasn’t dreamed of someone (very distant with their passing causing us Continue Reading

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Australia) Since 1942, with a break between 1943-1946 and beginning again in 1947, Oslo has sent a minimum twenty-metre tall, eighty-year-old tree to Trafalgar Square in London as a symbol of the enduring bonds between the two countries, established most profoundly during the dark days of Continue Reading

When you think of a romcom novel, you think usually of two people which is fair enough because a relationship isn’t much good if there’s only person in it. Fairly logical when you think about; but when you really dive into a romcom, what keeps you there, and keeps you Continue Reading

(courtesy official Holly Martin site) Full disclosure upfront – I am not a fan of short stories. It’s not how they are written or the characters or the narrative ideas contained within; in a great many cases, these are all superbly presented and you have to admire how the various Continue Reading