Once, coming back from a university conference in Dublin, my friends and I got chatting to one of the other attendees about what he was writing his PhD on. He answered Picaresque novels and we all nodded sagely and said it …
Fiction
The Best Man for the Job by Lucy King *Mills and Boon Monday*
I’ve just this moment finished “The Best Man for the Job” by Lucy King and I want to write my review immediately whilst everything is still fresh in my mind. Yes, you read that right, I finally FINNISHED a book!! …
Sleigh Bells In The Snow- Sarah Morgan
Do you want: Snow Biscuits Romance Family Bonding, and Good Old Fashioned Christmas Cheer? Then you can trust Mills & Boon, and Sarah Morgan, to get it right! Seriously. With Mills & Boon at the helm this book was always …
Just For Christmas- Scarlett Bailey
I’ll let you in on a secret, I’m really not feeling that festive yet. Every day I see the announcements that there are so many weeks, days, minutes, seconds until Christmas day and I’m not filled with the usual Christmas …
You Had Me At Hello- Mhairi McFarlane (A Rainy Day Read)
Happy December everybody! I’ve been featuring a couple of what could loosely be termed ‘heavy reads’ on The Female Scriblerian lately and as much as I love those books, you do have to be in the right mood to read …
Jasmine Nights- Julia Gregson
I almost didn’t buy this book. That’s not a good start is it? I mean, almost– it suggests there must have been something wrong with it. Or, if not wrong at least not right. It could so easily ended up …