Magical Realism – Escape to the Bookshelf

‘A Spell of Rowans’ by Byrd Nash

To be published 26/10/2021… Vic left home fifteen years ago under a dark cloud and she hasn’t been back since. Her new life in the city is built carefully around privacy and solitude and painstakingly constructed boundaries. When her mother dies, finally, Vic is finally drawn home to deal once and for all with herContinue reading “‘A Spell of Rowans’ by Byrd Nash”

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Set against the backdrop of Montverre, a boarding school where elite intellects study the complex intricacies of the ‘Grand Jeu’, this book focusses on the moments where two lives intertwine. Claire Dryden is Magister Ludi, master of the ‘Grand Jeu’ and first ever woman admitted into the mysteries of Montverre. Leo Martin was the MinisterContinue reading “The Betrayals by Bridget Collins”

‘A Girl Made of Air’ by Nydia Hetherington

This is the story of the greatest funambulist who ever lived. How she was born and raised in the circus, neglected by her parents and groomed to be a star. How she had to learn what love was and what it wasn’t. How she only learnt her own true story when it was almost tooContinue reading “‘A Girl Made of Air’ by Nydia Hetherington”

‘Pandora’ by Susan Stokes-Chapman

To be published 27/01/2022… Blake’s Emporium for Exotic Antiquities is a rundown shop of fakes; a mockery of the lustre and status it once held. Hezekiah Blake is to blame of course, him and his greed, but if her Uncle choses to run her dead parent’s legacy into the ground then there is not muchContinue reading “‘Pandora’ by Susan Stokes-Chapman”