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Slaves to Desire
by Eli Gilić Rating: ***** Slaves to Desire is a collection of eleven, erotic short stories in which both fictional and non-fictional...

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Aug 28, 20203 min read


The Stars of Heaven
by Jessica Dall Rating: **** Cecilia de Santa Rita e Durante is the heroine of The Stars of Heaven. She survives the earthquake that...

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Aug 25, 20202 min read


Stop Abusing Our Language
by Clive Seigal Rating: **** Stop Abusing Our Language is concerned with the deterioration of the spoken English language. It comprises...

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Aug 21, 20202 min read


New York Onions
by William Becker Rating: **** New York Onions is a short story dealing with issues of addiction, despair and loneliness all of which are...

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Aug 19, 20202 min read


Red Hail
by Jamie Killen Rating: ***** In 1960, the residents of a US border town, Galina, where nothing much happens out of the ordinary, are...

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Aug 12, 20202 min read


Dare to Hope
by Madison Michael Rating: **** Dare to Hope is the first book in the Double Dare Romance series by Ms Michael. It follows the lives and,...

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Aug 8, 20202 min read


Clean Slate
by Preeti Rajput Rating: *** Clean Slate is a collection of twelve short stories. Each of them is concerned with consequences....

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Aug 7, 20202 min read


Ramona's Man
by D. L. Yoder Rating: *** Wealthy business tycoon, Bradley Magnuson appears to have it all as he prepares to host his Corporate...

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Aug 4, 20202 min read


The Lane Betrayal
by John A. Heldt Rating: ***** It is August 2021 and eminent physicist Mark Lane at Janus Enterprises has developed two time travelling...

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Aug 3, 20203 min read


The Gallery of Stolen Souls
by Helen Moorhouse Rating: *** In 1860s London Samuel Temple is beginning to make a name for himself as a memorial photographer aided by...

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Jul 26, 20202 min read


The Guardians of Erum and the Calamitous Child of Socotra
by A. Ali Hasan Ali Rating: **** This epic tale is set in pre-Islamic Arabia and primarily follows a date farmer, Fada (mainly known as...

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Jul 25, 20202 min read


Soothsayer
by Kathryn Amurra Rating: **** Soothsayer is set in Ancient Rome and tells the story of Aurelia, who lives with her rather petulant and...

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Jul 19, 20203 min read


The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides Rating: *** The Silent Patient opens with the murder of Gabriel Berenson, seemingly by his artist wife, Alicia....

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Jul 16, 20202 min read


My Baby the Spy
by Annie Dolze Rating: **** My Baby the Spy is the story of two spies working for opposing organisations. Anya Lisoyva from Ryzkanova,...

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Jul 16, 20202 min read


Trust Me
by Nell Grey Rating: ***** Trust Me opens with an apparent suicide in a Welsh barn of a farmer, Glyn Evans. However, we are soon given a...

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Jul 12, 20203 min read


The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love
by Giovanni Boccaccio Rating: ***** This little book showcases eleven stories that are in Boccaccio’s most famous work, the Decameron....

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Jul 8, 20201 min read


Werewolf Nights
by Mari Hamill Rating: **** ‘Werewolf Nights’ tells us the story of Catherine Mercy; a thirty-something baker and widow in the town of...

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Jul 5, 20204 min read


The Sisters Grimm
by Menna van Praag Rating: *** 'The Sisters Grimm' is the story of four sisters born of the same Father on the same day but with...

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Jul 2, 20203 min read


Snapshots - a collection of short stories
by Eliot Parker Rating: **** Snapshots is a collection of ten short stories concerned with the human condition and those moments where...

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Jun 29, 20202 min read


The Black Tulip
by Alexandre Dumas Rating: **** ‘The Black Tulip’ , set in Holland in the late seventeenth century, is the story of Cornelius Van Baerle,...

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Jun 22, 20202 min read
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