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Stories of Hope from Auschwitz by Petra Stevenson

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Stories of Hope From Auschwitz by Petra Stevenson Stories of Hope From Auschwitz was published on 26th March 2026 by Summersdale. Thankyou to Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour. About the Book An uplifting collection of real-life stories of the rebels, resistance fighters, saboteurs, escapees and survivors who held on to hope through the horrors of the Holocaust When Auschwitz was liberated in 1945, after the horror of one of history's greatest atrocities, the world rejoiced. Although seven thousand people had survived this ordeal, the camp had also been witness to countless others who had resisted, sabotaged and even escaped from their captors. Some fought for their freedom or against injustice, and others disrupted Nazi operations. Then there were those who found ways to hold on to hope and positivity and spread it to their fellow inmates - a source of light in one of the world's darkest places. Stories of Hope from Auschwitz celebrates those heroes of ...
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Like Me by Katharine Light

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Like Me  by Katharine Light A Huge Thankyou to Katharine for sending me a copy of Like Me to review  and to Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the book tour. Synopsis When exhausted single-mum Jess returns to Manchester for her twenty-year school reunion, she’s hoping for nothing more than a well-deserved break from reality. What she’s not expecting is to bump into her secret teenage crush, hot single-dad Sam, or to remember quite how much they have in common.  But they live so far apart, their kids aren’t always easy, and there are events in their shared past it’s best not to revisit. Surely the idea of a future together is just a crazy dream in their messy, adult lives?  Though when Sam invites Jess to accompany him to a mutual friend’s high-profile wedding, the years they spent apart once again melt away. What will it take for them to be together? Can they use their second chance to finally get it right ? My Thoughts This was an easy , thou...
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Dead Heat by Sabine Durrant

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Dead Heat by Sabine Durrant Dead Heat by Sabine Durrant was published on 12th March 2026 by Century. My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to  Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis Former journalist Matt Grimshaw's life is at a low ebb. He's 51, he's been 'let go' by the paper where he's worked for years, and his relationship with his long-term girlfriend has come unstuck. So when an invitation arrives from his two closest friends, Celia and Adam Murphy, to join them at their villa in Greece, he jumps at it. It may be harsh and unwelcoming on the Mani Peninsula but Matt determines to stay there for the whole summer and to write his much put-off screen-play. But then the Murphys plus children arrive, and a wealthy newcomer to the area starts throwing loud and lavish parties in his big house across the bay. As the nights become hotter and the parties wilder, everyone's motivations darken. Envy r...
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The Sea Stone Sisters by Eleanor Buchanan

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The Sea Stone Sisters by Eleanor Buchanan The Sea Stone Sisters by Eleanor Buchanan  was published by Headline Books on 12th March 2026.  My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis Four great stones once stood on a remote Scottish headland – the Sisters of Skara. Legend has it they were raised by a grieving father, to guide his abducted daughters home. A curse was placed on anyone who laid the stones low: their family, too, would be scattered to the winds, never to find their way home. Let yourself be whisked away from Scotland to Ceylon and from Australia to London in this epic tale about family mysteries, unexpected love and enduring courage. 1931. When businessman Charles Blackmore takes down the stones on the Scottish headland, he soon finds his fortune lost, his wife dead and his four daughters torn apart. They each cling to a ring they inherited from their mother, al...
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The Shrine by Lesley Thomson

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The Shrine by Lesley Thomson The Shrine by Lesley Thomson was published by Head of Zeus. My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to  Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis Stella Darnell knows her partner Jack is hiding something. After following him one evening, she discovers he's been consulting a psychic in a desperate attempt to reach his dead mother. A sceptic by nature, and feeling betrayed by his lies, Stella fears what this means for their relationship. Seeking distraction, she accepts DI Toni Kemp's invitation to join her for a holiday in a small village in Gloucestershire. But the visit is derailed when a body is discovered at a shrine where a woman died decades earlier. Drawn into the investigation, Stella must confront the legacy of a once-famous psychic whose shadow still hangs over Prestbury – while in the darkness, someone bent on revenge waits patiently for the perfect moment to strike... My Thoug...
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The Hiroshima Boy by Akiko Mikamo

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The Hiroshima Boy by Akiko Mikamo The Hiroshima Boy by Akiko Mikamo was published by Monoray. My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to  Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis As the soldiers lifted me from the floor, my father's eyes locked with my own.  For just a moment, I thought I saw a shadow of sadness across his face. But it disappeared as quickly as it had arrived, replaced with my father's look of perpetual determination. "You'll find me at the hospital," I said to him. He made no response to this. "Be well, Shinji," he replied to me. Shinji Mikamo, a teenager, is on the roof of his house, working with his father, when there is a blinding flash. When he regains consciousness, he is severely injured, burned all over his body, and buried in the rubble of a building. Somehow, his father manages to pull him out, and together they begin to search for help. They were - it turned out - only 1200 ...
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