Hi and welcome to My Life in Books 2023! I did this meme back in 2020 and in 2022, and recently, I spotted the 2023 version on Annabel’s Blog, and today Cathy (ICYMI) and Karen (ICYMI) joined in as well. I loved their answers and decided to join in a ...
Viking rites and tainted love – and Scandinavia’s deepest, darkest winter… Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson tr. David Warriner #bookreview #YuleIsland
Art expert Emma Lindahl is anxious when she’s asked to appraise the antiques and artefacts in the infamous manor house of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families, on the island of Storholmen, where a young woman was murdered nine years earlier, her kille ...
It started with a lie… The Guests by Agnes Ravatn #bookreview #TheGuests
A young couple are entangled in a nightmare spiral of lies when they pretend to be someone else … Exquisitely dark psychological suspense by the international bestselling author of The Bird Tribunal.It started with a lie…Married couple Karin and Kai ...
When you wake up without your memories, who can you really trust? The Glass Woman by Alice McIlroy #bookreview #TheGlassWoman #NetGalley
Black Mirror meets Before I Go to Sleep by way of SeveranceWhen you wake up without your memories, who can you really trust?Pioneering scientist Iris Henderson chose to be her own first test-subject for an experimental therapy, placing a piece of tec ...
Meet the housemates from hell: Halfway House by Helen Fitzgerald #bookreview #HalfwayHouse
They’re the housemates from Hell…When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O’Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find … working at a halfway house for very high-risk ...
My Bookish Month of November 2023
Hi and welcome to another monthly overview! Another month bites the dust, and I can't say I'm sorry to see the back of it. A month of very little sunshine, way too much rain, and last week: a furry friend who was feeling very poorly indeed and tur ...





