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Friday 31 August 2018
Thursday 30 August 2018
Book of the Month - V4 Vengeance by Nigel Seed
has RECEIVED
Book of the Month Award
August
Hitler’s Last Vengeance Weapons Are Going To War
Major Jim Wilson, late of the Royal Engineers, has been obliged to leave the rapidly shrinking British Army. He needs a job but they are thin on the ground even for a highly capable Army Officer. Then he is offered the chance to go to Northern Germany to search for the last great secret of World War 2, a hidden U Boat base. Once he unravels the mystery he is asked to help to spirit two submarines away from under the noses of the German government, to be the central exhibits in a Russian museum. But then the betrayal begins and a seventy year old horror unfolds.
Genre: War & Military
August
Hitler’s Last Vengeance Weapons Are Going To War
Major Jim Wilson, late of the Royal Engineers, has been obliged to leave the rapidly shrinking British Army. He needs a job but they are thin on the ground even for a highly capable Army Officer. Then he is offered the chance to go to Northern Germany to search for the last great secret of World War 2, a hidden U Boat base. Once he unravels the mystery he is asked to help to spirit two submarines away from under the noses of the German government, to be the central exhibits in a Russian museum. But then the betrayal begins and a seventy year old horror unfolds.
Genre: War & Military
Approx pages: 317
All books that have received a a Book of the Month Award during 2018 will automatically be considered for Book of the Year 2018
Friday 24 August 2018
The Lighthouse Keepers by Dodie Hamilton
has RECEIVED a
Chill with a Book READERS’ Award
Imagine a house that is alive; a Light House radiating Light to all that seek sanctuary within its wisteria-covered walls. All kinds of creatures find shelter there, handsome pilots that died during the Battle of Britain, Siamese cats with impossible names, dogs who lie by the Aga to keep warm, mediaeval Knights in white tabards and 21st Century warriors killed during the Gulf war. The living seek comfort as well as the dead, wounded heroes, bomb disposal men like Captain Lucian Nairne who returns from Afghanistan to the Scottish Borders to sleep, to dream, and to write letters to a beautiful green-eyed stranger. An Angel guards Six Chimneys, a Light-Keeper defending the Gateway to Heaven. Daisy Banks didn’t know such a place existed. She does now.
Genre: Romantic suspence / ghosts
The Lighthouse Keepers was read and evaluated by Chill's readers against the following...
Imagine a house that is alive; a Light House radiating Light to all that seek sanctuary within its wisteria-covered walls. All kinds of creatures find shelter there, handsome pilots that died during the Battle of Britain, Siamese cats with impossible names, dogs who lie by the Aga to keep warm, mediaeval Knights in white tabards and 21st Century warriors killed during the Gulf war. The living seek comfort as well as the dead, wounded heroes, bomb disposal men like Captain Lucian Nairne who returns from Afghanistan to the Scottish Borders to sleep, to dream, and to write letters to a beautiful green-eyed stranger. An Angel guards Six Chimneys, a Light-Keeper defending the Gateway to Heaven. Daisy Banks didn’t know such a place existed. She does now.
Genre: Romantic suspence / ghosts
Approx pages: 452
The Lighthouse Keepers was read and evaluated by Chill's readers against the following...
Were the characters strong and engaging?
Was the book well written?
Did the story / plot have you turning the page to find out what happened next?
Was the ending satisfying?
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Miss Moonshine’s Emporium of Happy Endings
has RECEIVED a
Chill with a Book READERS’ Award
Sometimes what you need is right there waiting for you...
Miss Moonshine’s Wonderful Emporium has stood in the pretty Yorkshire town of Haven Bridge for as long as anyone can remember. With her ever-changing stock, Miss Moonshine has a rare gift for providing exactly what her customers need: a fire opal necklace that provides a glimpse of a different life; a novel whose phantom doodler casts a spell over the reader; a music box whose song links love affairs across the generations. One thing is for certain: after visiting Miss Moonshine’s quirky shop, life is never the same again...
Nine romantic novelists from Yorkshire and Lancashire, including best-selling and award-winning authors, have joined together to create this collection of uplifting stories guaranteed to warm your heart. This intriguing mix of historical and contemporary romances will make you laugh, cry, and believe in the happy-ever-after.
"Each story is heart-warming, fun and engaging to read. One of those rare books that is literally unputdownable...It is joyous, uplifting, and it leaves you on a high. Joy incarnate!" Frankie Reviews
Genre: Collections & Anthologies
Miss Moonshine’s Emporium of Happy Endings was read and evaluated by Chill's readers against the following...
Sometimes what you need is right there waiting for you...
Miss Moonshine’s Wonderful Emporium has stood in the pretty Yorkshire town of Haven Bridge for as long as anyone can remember. With her ever-changing stock, Miss Moonshine has a rare gift for providing exactly what her customers need: a fire opal necklace that provides a glimpse of a different life; a novel whose phantom doodler casts a spell over the reader; a music box whose song links love affairs across the generations. One thing is for certain: after visiting Miss Moonshine’s quirky shop, life is never the same again...
Nine romantic novelists from Yorkshire and Lancashire, including best-selling and award-winning authors, have joined together to create this collection of uplifting stories guaranteed to warm your heart. This intriguing mix of historical and contemporary romances will make you laugh, cry, and believe in the happy-ever-after.
"Each story is heart-warming, fun and engaging to read. One of those rare books that is literally unputdownable...It is joyous, uplifting, and it leaves you on a high. Joy incarnate!" Frankie Reviews
Genre: Collections & Anthologies
Approx pages: 324
Miss Moonshine’s Emporium of Happy Endings was read and evaluated by Chill's readers against the following...
Were the characters strong and engaging?
Was the book well written?
Did the story / plot have you turning the page to find out what happened next?
Was the ending satisfying?
Wednesday 15 August 2018
V4 Vengeance by Nigel Seed
has RECEIVED a
Chill with a Book READERS’ Award
Hitler’s Last Vengeance Weapons Are Going To War
Major Jim Wilson, late of the Royal Engineers, has been obliged to leave the rapidly shrinking British Army. He needs a job but they are thin on the ground even for a highly capable Army Officer. Then he is offered the chance to go to Northern Germany to search for the last great secret of World War 2, a hidden U Boat base. Once he unravels the mystery he is asked to help to spirit two submarines away from under the noses of the German government, to be the central exhibits in a Russian museum. But then the betrayal begins and a seventy year old horror unfolds.
Genre: War & Military / Adventure / Action
V4 Vengeance was read and evaluated by Chill's readers against the following...
Hitler’s Last Vengeance Weapons Are Going To War
Major Jim Wilson, late of the Royal Engineers, has been obliged to leave the rapidly shrinking British Army. He needs a job but they are thin on the ground even for a highly capable Army Officer. Then he is offered the chance to go to Northern Germany to search for the last great secret of World War 2, a hidden U Boat base. Once he unravels the mystery he is asked to help to spirit two submarines away from under the noses of the German government, to be the central exhibits in a Russian museum. But then the betrayal begins and a seventy year old horror unfolds.
Genre: War & Military / Adventure / Action
Approx pages: 317
V4 Vengeance was read and evaluated by Chill's readers against the following...
Were the characters strong and engaging?
Was the book well written?
Did the story / plot have you turning the page to find out what happened next?
Was the ending satisfying?
Tuesday 14 August 2018
Cast a Horoscope by Suzi Stembridge
has RECEIVED a
Chill with a Book READERS’ Award
Rosalind Peters, known as Roz, is an air-stewardess in the early 1960’s; in the days when they were called air-hostesses. With a one hour induction, a training flight to Paris and an afternoon swotting from her manual, she is embarking on her first flight at night and she is solely responsible for thirty-six passengers on a Viking aircraft. The chief pilot of the small Yorkshire-based charter airline is her captain and in these days of fledgling package holidays her passengers are businessmen going to Hamburg to play hockey. It doesn’t take long for the sardonic captain, ex RAF and Berlin airlift, and seeming to the youthful Roz as middle-aged and corpulent, to size up the rooky learner. But rather than suffering the agonies of initiation Roz is won over by the Captain’s winning smile and the joy of flying. The whole glamorous Mediterranean world is opened up to Roz. Greece: Athens when one could walk inside the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Lindos on Rhodes with pristine beaches, Crete when airplanes landed on grass airstrips, Cyprus: Kyrenia before its annexation to Turkey, Cairo: when you could touch the Sphinx and Jerusalem: when the airport was in the Jordanian quarter, not to mention Tangier: city of blackmail and torture, and all before the days of mass tourism. But Rosalind’s middleclass background is conditioned to preserve her virginity and allow her to make a good marriage; these are days when strict rules govern life outside marriage and young people are expected to abide by what is acceptable in respectable society. Do her Northern roots compete to draw her back from the heat and dust of a Europe fast recovering from, but still affected by, the horrors of two world wars? In an era when sex outside marriage, worse illegitimacy and adoption carry such stigma will Rosalind find true love and be able to resist the temptations and excitement on offer in this liberated life style? Will the consequences of her actions affect other lives?
Genre: Fiction
Cast A Horoscope was read and evaluated by Chill's readers against the following...
Rosalind Peters, known as Roz, is an air-stewardess in the early 1960’s; in the days when they were called air-hostesses. With a one hour induction, a training flight to Paris and an afternoon swotting from her manual, she is embarking on her first flight at night and she is solely responsible for thirty-six passengers on a Viking aircraft. The chief pilot of the small Yorkshire-based charter airline is her captain and in these days of fledgling package holidays her passengers are businessmen going to Hamburg to play hockey. It doesn’t take long for the sardonic captain, ex RAF and Berlin airlift, and seeming to the youthful Roz as middle-aged and corpulent, to size up the rooky learner. But rather than suffering the agonies of initiation Roz is won over by the Captain’s winning smile and the joy of flying. The whole glamorous Mediterranean world is opened up to Roz. Greece: Athens when one could walk inside the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Lindos on Rhodes with pristine beaches, Crete when airplanes landed on grass airstrips, Cyprus: Kyrenia before its annexation to Turkey, Cairo: when you could touch the Sphinx and Jerusalem: when the airport was in the Jordanian quarter, not to mention Tangier: city of blackmail and torture, and all before the days of mass tourism. But Rosalind’s middleclass background is conditioned to preserve her virginity and allow her to make a good marriage; these are days when strict rules govern life outside marriage and young people are expected to abide by what is acceptable in respectable society. Do her Northern roots compete to draw her back from the heat and dust of a Europe fast recovering from, but still affected by, the horrors of two world wars? In an era when sex outside marriage, worse illegitimacy and adoption carry such stigma will Rosalind find true love and be able to resist the temptations and excitement on offer in this liberated life style? Will the consequences of her actions affect other lives?
Genre: Fiction
Approx pages: 384
Cast A Horoscope was read and evaluated by Chill's readers against the following...
Were the characters strong and engaging?
Was the book well written?
Did the story / plot have you turning the page to find out what happened next?
Was the ending satisfying?
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