Shaz's Book Blog

At Christmas time, it seems as though a woman's work is never done. Trimming the tree, mailing the cards, schlepping to the mall, the en...

Your family are always there for you...aren't they?  For Tara, Vee, Niall and Damian, the children of the Shine family, their parents ...

How do you know where you belong?   In June 1988, Elizabeth Kelly's parents think she belongs at home in Ireland. Her boyfriend is cer...

The Seafront Tea Rooms is a peaceful hideaway, away from the bustle of the seaside, and in this quiet place a group of women find exactly wh...

Sydney Strauss is obsessed with food.  Not just with eating it - though she loves that too - but with writing about it as an aspiring cook...

When Ellie Russet leaves home and her restaurant in the wake of disaster to housesit in the Kent countryside, the last thing she wants to do...

Some secrets need to be told...  As a child, Riley always suspected there was a secret her parents and brother protected her from, a secre...

These three friends are dreading Christmas. Cat needs to get off the ‘has-been’ heap and rescue her flagging TV career but the demands of ...

If you thought Harry & Suzie’s life couldn't get anymore sweepingly romantic than Harry asking her to marry him at the end of One Hu...

Thea’s parents decide to host a big family Christmas in a house by the sea… even though they are, in fact, about to split up. Thea herself i...

It all started with Paris. At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his girlfriend, cheered on by delighted tourists. In th...

As Christmas 1938 approaches, the staff at the Nightingale Hospital have their own wishes for the festive season.  Ward sister Frannie Wal...

Home, sweet home… Joy Cartier has been to some of the most beautiful places in the world – but none of them have ever felt like home. So m...

Dooleybridge, County Galway. Population: 482 (or thereabouts). The last place Fiona Clutterbuck expects to end up, alone, on her wedding nig...

When one door closes… Zoë and her fiancé Paul had everything ahead of them. So when Paul dies suddenly, Zoë doesn’t recognise the life she...

Love - is it worth its weight in gold? It's 1866 and the gold rush is on. Left to fend for herself in the wilds of New Zealand's w...

After months of caring for her terminally ill mother, Rebecca Rivera is left all alone in a world she doesn't trust--but she's deter...

Ally Richmond is dreading turning thirty and bidding farewell to her youth. And when her husband says he wants to start a family, she begins...

Librarian Callie Barnes has visions of reading and relaxing--and maybe having a few too many drinks--on her girls' weekend away. Her hop...

One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women's destinies. France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeym...