Shaz's Book Blog

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen Lillian, a single, well-travelled woman of a certain age, wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen There are some lessons you shouldn't learn in school...Fiona Palmer is (un)happily married when a chance m...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen Tehran, 1983. A city paralysed by fear, its people silenced. And the beating heart of the regime is Evin priso...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets w...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.  A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry C...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen You were loved and lost - then you came back . . . Five years ago, three-year-old Dillon disappeared. For hi...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen Five Days in November, 1920:  As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of North...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen Forgive me, Dorothea, for I cannot forgive you. What you do, to this child, to this child's mother, it ...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen ‘You were adopted’.   Three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parents' will, tear Nisha’s caref...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen New Year's Eve, 1920. The Great War is over and it's a new decade of glamorous promise. But a genera...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen My parents sent me away  because I wanted too much, wanted badly.  And all that want was a dangerous thing... ...

The latest participant in my Countdown to Christmas features is guest reviewer Danielle with a festive fun Q&A. What’s your earliest...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen Sophie is a happy 18-year-old living in London with Anna, her Irish mother. Anna has devoted her life to Sophi...

How would you spend your birthday if you knew it would be your last?  Eighteen-year-old Leonard Peacock knows exactly what he'll do. H...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen London 1957. In a bid to erase her past, Sophie Schofield accepts a wedding proposal from ambitious British di...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen A ll four children have an idyllic childhood: a picture-book cottage in a country village, a warm, cosy kitche...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen Peek-a-boo I see you ... When five-year-old Helen Stephens witnesses her mother's murder, her whole ...

  Reviewed by Danielle Pullen London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caughty up in a glamorous whirl of partie...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's CID with a problem. T...

Reviewed by Danielle Pullen The first death looked like a suicide. But someone had tucked a picture of an angel and a handful of white f...