Hi and welcome to First Lines Friday – #Orentober edition! First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening ...
I Am Dust by Louise Beech #bookreview #IAmDust #Orentober #spooktober
Hi and welcome to another #Orentober #ThrowBackThursday! This week, I’m taking you back to my review of I Am Dust, a book I was lucky enough to receive months before its publication date (thanks again, Orenda Books!) and that I'm happily revisiting t ...
The Coral Bride by Roxanne Bouchard tr. David Warriner #bookreview #TheCoralBride #Orentober
When an abandoned lobster trawler is found adrift off the coast of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, DS Joaquin Moralès begins a straightforward search for the boat’s missing captain, Angel Roberts – a rare female in a male-dominated world.But Moralès finds ...
The Seven Doors by Agnes Ravatn #bookreview #TheSevenDoors #NordicNoir #Orentober
When the tenant of a house that university professor Nina owns with her doctor husband goes missing after an uncomfortable visit, Nina starts her own investigation … with deeply disturbing results.University professor Nina is at a turning point. Her ...
Everything that makes us human and flawed: talking to Eve Smith about bringing out a book about a pandemic during a pandemic #GuestPost #Orentober
Hi and welcome to FromBelgiumWithBookLove! Mid-May, Belgium in lockdown and I had finally talked myself into picking up The Waiting Rooms. It took some convincing, it felt too close to home, reading about one pandemic when the whole bloody world was ...
Trying to do better: Q&A with Will Carver #QandASunday #Orentober
Hi and welcome to #QandASunday! I think we can all agree that Casa Orenda has an abundance of talented authors, so choosing one to prod and probe is a very difficult thing to do! This time around, I opted to examine the undoubtedly beautiful but pitch-bl ...