Blog - Karen's Book Bag

- 4 Gorgeous Seasonal Books for Christmas 2023
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: November 1, 2023
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Anne Booth , Christmas , Emma Heatherington , Love and Longing , NetGalley Read , Popular Fiction , Romance , Sarah Morgan , Seasonal Romance , Snow and Stars , Sue Moorcroft , Trees and Tinsel
  
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  It's the time of years for festive reading with so many seasonal stories to choose from! Check out my recommendations for four of the best, from Anne Booth, Sue Moorcroft, Emma Heatherington and Sarah Morgan, and do keep checking my blog as I add to it over November and December.
  
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- Books I Loved In September
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: October 4, 2023
  
  Category: Best-selling Author , Blog , Contemporary Fiction , Family Drama , Science Fiction , Thriller
  
  Tags: Andy Weir , Contemporary Fiction , Hazel Prior , Kate Hamer , Laura Elizabeth Woollett , Life and Otter Miracles , Project Hail Mary , Sci-Fi , The Lost Girls , The Newcomer , Thriller
  
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  Book lovers looking foryour next read! Check out my September reads. I've got some great recommendations here, from Hazel Prior's new book Life and Otter Miracles to Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary, plus romance, mystery and adventure titles. Do have a look now.
  
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- My Top Reads for August
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: August 31, 2023
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: A Typical Family , Adele Parks , August Reading , Black Rabbit Hall , Comtemporary Fiction , Dystopian Fiction , Eve Chase , Historical Fiction , I Did It For You , Jane Cowie , Just Between Us , Kate Foster , Mystery , Sierra Godfrey , The Msiden , Thriller
  
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  Looking for some late holiday reading? Catch up with my August blog to disover the best in historical fiction, mystery, romance and drama from an ecelctic mix of titles by Kate Foster, Jane Cowie, Adele Parks, Sierra Godfrey and Eve Chase.
  
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- The Joy of Audiobooks
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: July 31, 2023
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Amanda Prowse , Audiobooks , Daisy Jones and the Six , Emily Austin , Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead , Gone Tonight , Libby , My Husband's Wife , Sarah Pekkanen , Taylor Jenkins Reid
  
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  Are you a fan or Audiobooks? It's taken me a long time to get on board with them, but now I wouldn't be without my Libby membership, my trusty earphones and a really good Audiobook for the times when I'm on the go.
  
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- My Top Reads for July
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: July 28, 2023
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Alexandra Potter , Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up , Fair Rosaline , Historical Fiction , Humpur , July books , Lisa Jewell , Margaret Meyer , Natasha Solomons , NetGalley , None of this is True , Romance , The Witching Tide , Thriller
  
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  I've gone for an ecelectic pick of new books this month, from historical to thriller to laugh-out-loud romance to a book based on a Shakespearean heroine. Check out my reviews for suggestions of what to read next.
  
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- My Top Reads for June
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: June 28, 2023
  
  Category: Best-selling Author , Blog , Contemporary Fiction , Crime , Family Drama , Fantasy , Holiday Reading , Popular Fiction , Reviews , Wartime
  
  Tags: After That Night , Audrey Burges , Coming To Find You , Jane Corry , Karin Slaughter , Th House in the Cerulean Sea , The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone , TJ Klune
  
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  From my bookshelf to yours - here's my round-up of the books I've read and loved in June. From murder mystery with Karin Slaughter to a motely collection of children on a fantasy island with TJ Klune, it's an unusually eclectic mix this time, with something for everyone, I hope.
  
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- My Top Reads in May
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: June 1, 2023
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Ann Griffin , Corfu , Family Drama , Hear No Evil , Island of Longing , literary fiction , Music In The Dark , Popular Fiction , Romance , Sally Magnusson , Sarah Morgan , Sarah Smith , Scottish Historical Fiction , summer Wedding , Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  
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  Looking for the perfect summer read? Discover my May recommendations for top new books that encompass everything from Scottish historical fiction to romance on a sunny Greek island!
  
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- Cover Reveal! The Sewing Factory Girls by Posy Lovell
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: May 24, 2023
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Orion Books , Period Drama , Posy Lovell , Saga , The Sewing Factory Girls
  
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  The Sewing Factory Girls is Posy Lovell's heartwarming and moving novel inspired by the brave, hardworking women who fought to improve working conditions at the Singer Factory in Clydebank. It is an uplifting and emotional novel of friendship and courage, for readers who enjoy fiction based on real life stories.
  
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- My Top Reads for April
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: April 28, 2023
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Andy Weir , April reads , Friendship. Mars , Lucy Clarke , Norway , Science fiction , The Hike , The Martian , Thrillers
  
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  My top choices for April take me from the mountains of Norway to the surface of Mars as I review The Martian by Andy Weir and The Hike by Lucy Clarke - both very different but very thrilling stories of survival in a hostile environment.
  
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- Spotlight Tour - Conviction by Jack Jordan
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: April 28, 2023
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Conviction , Courtroom Drama , Jack Jordan , Simon and Schuster , Spotlight Tour
  
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  Waiting with bated breath for June 22 and the release of Conviction by Jack Jordan - the thrilling new courtroom drama that poses the question, would you condemn an innocent man in order to save your own skin?
  
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- My Top Reads for March
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: March 29, 2023
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Blog , Code Name Elodie by Anna Stuart , Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood , Daughters of Troy by Claire Heywood , March 2023 book reviews , murder mystery , Mythology , One Moment by Becky Hunter , Romance , Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent , The Dead of Winter by Stuart MacBride , WWII
  
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  A murder mystery from Stuart MacBride, a WWII thrilling story from Anna Stuart, Heartbreaking romance from Becky Hunter, Dark secrets from Liz Nugent and a mythological retelling from Claire Heywood are my top reading picks for March 2023!
  
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- My Top New Books for February
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: February 27, 2023
  
  Category: Best-selling Author , Blog , Contemporary Fiction , Debut , Domestic Noir , Family Drama , Mystery , Reviews
  
  Tags: Blog , Brutes , Dizz Tate , Emily Koch , February 2023 books , February 2023 Recommendations , Kayte Nunn , Louise Candlish , The Only Child , The Only Suspect , What July Knew
  
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  Wintertime is reading time! There were so many great books out in February, and I've managed to read quite a few of them. Hope you enjoy my reviews of What July Knew by Emily Koch, The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish, The Only Child by Kayte Nunn and Brutes by Dizz Tate.
  
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- Sad to leave Ramsay Street? Make the move to Riverside.
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: July 26, 2022
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Audible Soap , Community , Drama , friendship , Glenda Young , Riverside , Series , Soap , The People's Friend , Wyndham Books
  
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  Sad to leave Ramsay Street? Make the move to Riverside. Riverside is the feel-good story of family, friends and community in a small town, and will be available in bite-sized 15-minute episodes from July 27. The show features romance, heartbreak and secrets, as well as gentle wit and humour – all the elements of a classic soap – with a cast of actors already well-known from TV and radio soaps Neighbours and The Archers.
  
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- Ten of the Best Holiday Reads 2022!
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: June 29, 2022
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Bella Osborne , Best Summer Books 2022 , Cathy Bramley , Emma Cowell , Holiday Reading , Holiday Romance , Isabelle Broom , L:izzy Barber , Lizzie Damilola , Lucy Clarke , Lucy Dickens , Mandy Baggot , Sue Moorcroft
  
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  There are so many brilliant books out this year that I struggled to limit myself to just 10 – and I’m cheating slightly by including one of last year’s best-sellers. Here's my pick of the best 5-starred reads!
  
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- Our House by Louise Candlish
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: March 1, 2022
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: ITV Serial , Louise Candlish , Martin Compston , Our House , Property Porn , Tuppence Middleton , TV Dramatisation
  
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  A new ITV series starting next week adapts Our House by Louise Candlish, a novel in which heroine Fi Lawson finds herelf in a nightmare situation we can alll identify with when she returns home to find her house has been sold from under her!
  
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- 10 Sparkling Romances for Christmas
  
  By: Karen Byrom
  
  Posted: December 17, 2021
  
  Category: Blog
  
  Tags: Anton du Beke , Cathy Bramley , Cathy Lake , Christmas romance , Danni Redd , Emma Heatherington , Festive Reading , Geidi Swain , Hannukah Romance , Jean Meltzer , Rachel Burton , Suzanne Snow , Trisha Ashley
  
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  I love a feel-good Christmas book, and fortunately for me there are even more to choose from this year, and more time to read them … check out my selection to help you choose your next festive read.
  
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