Reading in the Daisies

Publication - 21st September 2017 Rating - 5* Synopsis - After a young woman is brutally attacked on her way home from the local supermarket, checkout girl Bea is determined to find out who’s responsible. She enlists the help of Ant, the seemingly gormless new trainee – but can she really trust him? Customers and colleagues become suspects, secrets are uncovered, and while fear stalks the town, Bea risks losing the people she loves most.  I've been invited to post an extract from Rachel Ward's brilliant new cosy-crime novel The Cost of Living, published by Sandstone Press,   and I've chosen a brilliant scene set in the supermarket our heroes Ant and Bea work in. Rachel Ward brings her characters to life with humour and a brilliant eye for detail. My favourite crime novel of the year!!! Hope you guys enjoy it as much! By half past eight the store was well past the ‘What’s for tea?’ evening rush. There were a few stragglers late home from work and a cou...

So the plan going forward is to make an appearance at least once a month to share my favourite books (mostly) with everyone.... Obviously with my track record of posting I really need to get into a routine before I commit fully, so at the end of may there will be a glorious recap of what I've read, including the embarrassing choices/maybe my favourite films/possibly some awesome moments. The end of June is bringing a big change in my life so I'd really love to be able to share all the things that are opening up in my world, along with sharing the my always reliable love of reading.  That's it for now!  Taran x  

So, after coming home to find my not so little kitten Flynn in a box, who was fairly unhappy to be disturbed, I was reminded me of one of my favourite picture books . . . My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve Sutton. This amazing book has a brilliant rhyme scheme, a individual illustration style and the best line from any picture book ever, "The cat from Norway, got stuck in a doorway." (And after putting it aside yesterday for myself to buy, I ended up having to sell it to a lovely woman who I couldn't deny the chance to have this awesome book.) Following this I decided to share with you some of my favourite picture books of all time, there are quite a few, so I've had to select a few special one.  So let's start with the best picture book available for really young ones, and to be honest one I can recite pretty much from cover to cover if necessary. Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. When you start this book and discover the gorgeous and ...

So I'm in London at the moment doing an intern-ship at a small political publishers, which is actually the leading political publishers in the country; but that's just the way of publishing books on politics. Well it been an interesting four weeks, with best-selling memoirs, crazy bitch fights  involving the Managing Director and a grammatically-incorrect dog, Nuns, Awkward ness, South Africans, Cricket, UKIP Racism, Book Prize Longlist, French Food, New Jobs, a horrible head-cold, crazy ass tourists pushing me into cyclists and most magical of all NEW iPhones!!! Unfortunately so far I haven't had enough time or energy to fit in much reading, instead I have been audio-booking it every morning to a number of books. This week 'The Name of the Wind' (One of the best fantasy books written in a few years) and this is what brings me to my reason for this post....my love of Audible !  Come on what could be better than a monthly audio-book credit....£3.99 a month is...