Fiction Archives - https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/tag/fiction/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:39:05 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Book Review: One Dark Summer by Saskia Sarginson https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-one-dark-summer-by-saskia-sarginson/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-one-dark-summer-by-saskia-sarginson/#respond Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:54:16 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=15115 In One Dark Summer, Saskia Sarginson weaves a chilling psychological drama set in the quiet corners of the English countryside, where memories and secrets lie buried beneath the surface. The Synopsis of One Dark Summer It was the summer that changed everything… With trembling hands, Meg knocks on the door...

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Book Review: Wish You Were Here by Alex Brown https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-wish-you-were-here-by-alex-brown/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-wish-you-were-here-by-alex-brown/#respond Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:02:50 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=15052 Wish You Were Here tries to explore the very difficult topic of grief in a compassionate and honest way while creating an easy-to-read storyline of three friends enjoying their time in New York. The Synopsis of Wish You Were Here Your perfect escape awaits! Three friends. Two secrets. And a holiday...

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Book Review: The Dinner Party by Nina Manning https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-the-dinner-party-by-nina-manning/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-the-dinner-party-by-nina-manning/#respond Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:53:02 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=15108 What starts as a celebratory evening quickly spirals into a tense, gripping psychological puzzle in Nina Manning’s The Dinner Party. The Synopsis of The Dinner Party The perfect date… To celebrate their wedding anniversary, Lily Leonard books a table at the exclusive restaurant of Hector Bolson-Woods renowned celebrity chef. It...

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Book Review: The Black Rock Killings by Wes Markin https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-the-black-rock-killings-by-wes-markin/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-the-black-rock-killings-by-wes-markin/#respond Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:41:00 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=15093 The Black Rock Killings is a dark crime thriller set in Yorkshire that will keep you on the edge of your seat, questioning whether people can really be that cruel. The Synopsis of The Black Rock Killings A calculated killer. A life hanging in the balance. A decision that changes...

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Book Review: The Night Shift by Gemma Roberts https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-the-night-shift-gemma-roberts/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-the-night-shift-gemma-roberts/#respond Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:00:22 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=15021 Gemma Roberts has written a distinctive novel that takes place over just one-night shift, but don’t be fooled; it is action-packed and difficult to put down. The Synopsis of The Night Shift How can one 12-hour night shift be so deadly? I loved the anonymity, flexibility and solitude that working...

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Book Review: Becky by Sarah May https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-becky-by-sarah-may/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-becky-by-sarah-may/#respond Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:31:54 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=14734 “The truth changes everything. There’s such an awful intimacy to it, a banality even. Perhaps this is why the one time I actually, publicly, tell the truth, and not just to this room of forty or so people, but to the hundreds and thousands beyond it, I am accused by...

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Book Review: No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-no-land-to-light-on-by-yara-zgheib/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-no-land-to-light-on-by-yara-zgheib/#respond Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:00:57 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=13595 I cannot even begin to imagine how people who are terrorised and abused in their own countries must feel when, after escaping this trauma, they are exposed to more hatred when they have fought so hard for a new beginning. This is why books like ‘No Land to Light On’...

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What TV Shows Bookworms Should be Watching on Netflix https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/what-tv-shows-bookworms-should-be-watching-on-netflix/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/what-tv-shows-bookworms-should-be-watching-on-netflix/#respond Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:08:43 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=12526 2021 may not have started the way we wanted. We may be in the midst of another lockdown with the pandemic still raging across the world, but to ease the pain for book lovers everywhere, Netflix has us covered. I don’t know about you, but there have been times in...

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Review : Q by Christina Dalcher https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-q-christina-dalcher/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/book-review-q-christina-dalcher/#respond Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:38:33 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=12043 “I almost can’t remember how it felt before we all started carrying the Q numbers around with us, like an extra and unnatural print on the tips of our fingers, a badge of honour for some, a mark of shame for others.” These Q numbers now run lives. It dictates...

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Books of the Month: February 2020 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/books-of-the-month-february-2020/ https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/books-of-the-month-february-2020/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:19:55 +0000 https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/?p=11764 February sees no less than 200 books being published some of which are highly publicised while others very few have heard of. This month alone Stacey Halls’ second book, The Foundling is published alongside The Sister’s Grimm by Menna van Praag, Saving Missy by Beth Morrey and Djinn Patrol on...

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