Friday, February 28, 2025

Ghost Encounters: The Lingering Spirits of North Devon by Helen Hollick with Kathy Hollick
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Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Taw River Press
Pages: 201
Genre: Non-Fiction (with a bonus of two short stories)

Book Description

Everyone assumes that ghosts are hostile. Actually, most of them are not.

You either believe in ghosts or you don’t. It depends on whether you’ve encountered something supernatural or not. But when you share a home with several companionable spirits, or discover benign ghosts in public places who appear as real as any living person, scepticism is abandoned and the myth that ghosts are to be feared is realised as nonsense.

Friday, February 21, 2025

The Fires of Gallipoli by Barney Campbell
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Publication Date: February 13th, 2025
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson
Pages: 320
Genre: Historical Fiction / WWI Fiction

Book Description

The Fires of Gallipoli is a heartbreaking portrayal of friendship forged in the trenches of the First World War.  

‘In this vivid and engaging novel of war and friendship, Barney Campbell shows us once again that he is a natural writer. This is a novel of men at arms of the highest quality.’  ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Edward Salter is a shy, reserved lawyer whose life is transformed by the outbreak of war in 1914. On his way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign, he befriends the charming and

Friday, February 14, 2025

Murder on West Lake by I. M. Foster
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Publication Date: December 9th, 2024
Publisher: Inez M. Foster – self-published
Series: South Shore Mystery series #3
Pages: 438
Genre: Historical Mystery

Book Description

A scream shattered the tranquil air, echoing off the ice-covered lake, and Daniel's heart froze. He knew that voice all too well.

After a pleasant afternoon of ice skating on the frozen waters of West Lake, local librarian Kathleen Brissedon stumbles across a gruesome sight in the nearby gazebo. It only takes a moment for her beau, assistant coroner Doctor Daniel O'Halleran, to determine that the victim was murdered.

To protect Kathleen from the ghastly sight of