A Few Words From An Absolute Nobody

A Few Words From An Absolute Nobody

By Ricardo Chin

Genre:-Spiritual Memoir/ Non Fiction

Pages:-320

Ricardo Chin tells his story honestly, no matter how raw it gets. Ricardo grew up in a strict poverty-stricken household, were violence was part of everyday life. Ricardo went from gangs, crime violence on the streets to the Royal Marines. To anyone looking from the outside saw a Royal Marine soldier fighting for his country, but it didn't feel the same for him. This is a really emotional story, that is inspiring and one of survival. Ricardo shows that no matter how your life is or was, you can get though it and come out the other side. A story of hope for anyone. This is a book I would highly recommend reading, if you think you can go no more, you can and will.

Blurb:-Born into a broken home in a run-down community marked by deprivation, crime, and violence. Ricardo Chin grows up with one thing in mind: inflicting suffering back on a world that's failed him.

 By his teens, he's fighting with inner-city gangs; by his early 20s, he's a newly trained Royal Marine Commando on his way to Afghanistan. In the eyes of the military, he's doing his duty; in his own troubled mind, however, he's a stone-cold killer out for revenge.

 Wounded in action on the battlefield, Ricardo moves into close protection in post-war Iraq but find the insecurities that have plagued him all his life soon follow, Embarking on a spiritual quest that leads to the ancient tribal wisdom of South America, he comes to realise there's a higher purpose to existence-one built on love, not hate.

 A Few Words from an Absolute Nobody is the record of one man's inspirational journey from unconsciousness to enlightenment, with profound lessons for all of humanity. It's only by stepping back from the mental warzones we inhabit daily that we will learn the fight for survival is already won. Beneath the uniform of our flesh lies an inextinguishable energy; beyond the personal hardships and challenges, a masterplan.

 The universe is calling to us...we just need to stop and listen

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My Review:-Ricardo Chin tells his story honestly, no matter how raw it gets. Ricardo grew up in a strict poverty-stricken household, were violence was part of everyday life. Ricardo went from gangs, crime violence on the streets to the Royal Marines. To anyone looking from the outside saw a Royal Marine soldier fighting for his country, but it didn't feel the same for him. This is a really emotional story, that is inspiring and one of survival. Ricardo shows that no matter how your life is or was, you can get though it and come out the other side. A story of hope for anyone. This is a book I would highly recommend reading, if you think you can go no more, you can and will.

The Accidental Plus One

The Accidental Plus One

By Alison Ripley Cubitt

Genre:-Non Fiction/Biography/Humour

Pages:-235

Blurb:-A burnt-out media executive. A chance to leave it all behind. Can she take that leap into the unknown, or is she doomed to fail?

 Alison was stuck going nowhere. Her shiny career had well and truly lost its lustre, despite the money her TV bosses were offering. Nothing would ever make up for the sacrifices she'd made in the past 15 years.

 When she spotted am opportunity for her other half on the other side of the world, could she leave behind a well-paid job and all that was familiar to up sticks? When the couple's dream home became a restoration nightmare, they were off once again, crisscrossing the planet in a whirlwind journey of love, life, and passports.

 The Accidental Plus One: Travel Tales from a Trailing Spouse is a heart-warming and humorous true story, that proves that sometimes love leads us on the most unexpected journeys.

 If you like stories about brave but foolhardy risk-takers, quirky characters, and amusing tales from departure lounges and arrival halls, you'll love this fun, globetrotting adventure.

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My Review:-Moving across the world isn't an easy job as Alison finds out. Sorting out the dog came first, she couldn't leave it behind, followed by New Zealand Residency, selling the flat and a lot more. All this while sorting out her own wedding, a small simple one, with the help from her family and friends, everything sort of went ok, apart from almost no champagne. I love how Alison is prepared to move with her University Professor husband, not just once but many. Alison shares with us just what its like to pack up a house, finding a new house, as well as furniture, cars friends and a job for herself at times. Not everything goes to plan which we find out. The way the author has wrote the storyline, it was easy to picture just what was happening, Interesting, unique and funny all rolled into one book.

I Died At Fallow Hall

I Died At Fallow Hallow

By Bonnie Burke-Patel

Genre:-Classic Crime & Mystery Fiction/Psychological Thriller/Romantic Suspense/Narrative Theme

Pages:-256

Publisher:-Bedford Square Publishers

Blurb:-The classic Agatha Christie-style country house murder mystery combined with the subjective, searching, contemporary literary novel

Combines terrific plot twists, characters with a rich inner life and a dramatic outer life, and beautiful writing-a must for reading groups.

 Layered and subtle, with more than one crime at its heart; a police procedural but also a novel about identity and self-knowledge and much more.

Anna Deerin moves to a remote Cotswold cottage to become a gardener, trying to strip all her life as a woman striving for, craving the anonymity and privacy her new off-grid life provides. But when she claers the last vegetable bed and digs up not twigs but bones, the outside world is readmitted. With it comes Detective Inspector Hitesh Mistry, who has his own reasons for a new start in the village of Upper Magna.

 Drawn in spite of herself to this unknown woman from another time, Anna is determined to uncover her identity and gain recognition for her, if not justice. As threats to Anna and her new life grow closer, she and DI Mistry will find that this murder is inextricably bound up with issues of gender, family, community, race and British identity itself-all as relevant in decades past as they are to Anna today.

 Praise and reviews 'A hard-hitting mystery drama that simultaneously celebrates and skewers the country house tradition, Bonnie Burke-Patel's debut is beautifully written, told with empathy and a razor-sharp wit. I couldn't put it down'-Seth Insua, author of Human, Animal

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My Review:-Anna Deerin, once a ballerina until she got hurt. Anna now lives a simple life, off-grid on Upper Magna, a little village in the Cotswold. Anna Grows her own fruit and vegetables to sell at the weekly farmers market. While tendering to the gardens, Anna digs up more than just vegetables. The bones she finds are of a young female, but who is it? Detective Inspector Hitesh Mistry has been assigned to the case. It's not long before Anna and DI Mistry are trying to find out more about the body. But has someone got other ideas about them finding out more... Both Anna and DI Mistry have came here from London and have a past that they are happy to leave behind.

Gender, family, community, identity and race all related within this book.

X in Provence

X in Provence

By Tani Ruiz

Genre:-Women's Fiction/Erotic Romance/Erotic BDSM Fiction

Pages:-297

Publisher:-Austin Macauley Publishers

Blurb:-Escape to the beautiful lavender fields of Provence

 X in Provence is a novel about obsession, betrayal and survival set in a place that normally conjures up paradise. Soon after English journalist Rai leaves a thriving career in Hong Kong to live with Alain, a brilliant French sculptor in Provence, she is delighted to discover la dolce vita. But she also encounters a darker demimonde-the sex-sodden underbelly of this region of southern France. Call it the 'other' Provence. Rai is captivated by the novelty of it all and the loving reassurances of her charmer beau and is thrilled when he proposes. After marriage, however, Alain turns chilling, and conflict ignites between rai's intellect and her internal dysfunctions-a treacherous teetering depicted with stark clarity. Alain has a brother-two if you count the dead one-and the dynamics between these divergent characters deepen the plot. The novel offers a new take on an age-old theme: the perils of addiction to highly charismatic, highly narcissistic personalities and what women will do to cling on. Combining splashes of erotica, psychological suspense, mystery and wanderlust, X in Provence is women's fiction at its gripping best.

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My Review:-X in Provence is Tani Ruiz's debut novel. Ravinia, is a English journalist. Ria decides to leave her career and home in Hong Kong to be with Alain, a French Sculptor in Provence. Her relationship with Alain is everything she could ask for, but after getting married things start to change. Alain and Provence both have a darker side, a side that Rai hadn't seem or wants to either. But how far will she go and how safe is she? A book of betrayal, obsession, vulnerability, survival and so much more. Even though it has a dark side and not everyone is going to like it, I found once I started reading I couldn't put it down. Beauty and the Beast combined with 50 Shades of Grey.

Trouble In Combe Tollbridge

Trouble In Combe Tollbridge

By Roseanna Hall

Genre:-Humorous fiction/Modern & Contemporary fiction/General & Literary/Family life fiction

Pages:_304

Publisher:-Farrago

Blurb:-Combe Tollbridge, on the Exmoor coast, is a quiet fishing village, always happy to welcome visitors for the sake of the local economy, but when an irritating journalist looks like staying overtime, a dine-and-dash couple plays tricks in the neighbourhood, and a family with more than one secret to hide features in the national news, the mixed blessing that is tourism becomes all too clear.

 Meanwhile Professor Tolliday visits the coastal village for the first time in fifty years with his family. The once irresponsible student has come back to make belated amends, but it is his mischievous little granddaughter whose holiday fun causes the most trouble for the village. Perfect for fans of Hannah Ellis, Rebecca Shaw, Alix Kelso, Tracy Rees, Miss Read, Carola Dunn.

 From the author of the bestselling Miss Seeton mystery series.

 'An entertaining, richly textured novel of village life that lifts the spirits and makes you smile. I loved the characters, learned a lot from their experiences and believed in them as people. I'm moving in as soon as the next cottage is on the market' Peter Lovesey, author of Showstopper.

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My Review:-This is Book Two in 'An Exmoor Harbour Tales' series. I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing book one 'Moving To Combe Tollbridge' last year, so when I seen this one I had to give it a read. It's that time of the year when everyone likes to go on holiday and it's no different in Combe Tollbridge. There are a few storylines within this book, from the tourist that have came for the first time to Professor Tolliday who hasn't been for fifty years and brought his family with him. Why has the Professor came back after so long? Not all the storylines have an ending in this book, so I think we might be seeing more about them in book three. 

 I have to say Combe Tollbridge sounds like a place that I would be happy staying at. I'm not one for a lot of people or noise. We go on holiday to the same little Welsh village every year and in the past 15 years nothing much has changed.

How To Make A Sandwich

How To Make A Sandwich

by Lorena M. Proia

Genre:-Children's Fiction

Ages:-3-7 years

Pages:-32

Publisher:-Lorena M. Proia

Blurb:-Making a sandwich is fun and easy! And Rae knows just how to do it. The bread is like the parents, it keeps the sandwich safe and happy. The turkey is the love, the lettuce is the fun. But every time Rae adds an ingredient, it disappears, and she soon realizes there is a sandwich-stealing thief intent on eating her creation!

 Will Rae ever get to eat her lunch? Suddenly making a sandwich isn't so easy after all!

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My Review:-My granddaughter Emily and I read this book together. Rae is just like any other little girl, she's a artist, scientist, a doctor, but today she's a chef. Along with her cat Nero Rae gets everything she needs to make a sandwich, but things don't go to plan when she puts turkey on her bread (which is the parents) and it disappears, Phebe her dog gets the blame for eating it. Then her mam and dad eat other parts of her sandwich, but her mam does say that there is avocado to use. Rae explains how a sandwich is like a family. We loved everything about this book from the adorable illustrations to how beautiful the story is. There is so much to talk about within each page. Emily decided that the avocado could be the glue to keep it together, but as she said not everything needs glue to keep it together LOVE is want is needed most. What do you think the avocado would be?

Past, Present and Hope

Past, Present and Hope (Book 2 of The Nicholas Trilogy)

ByOliver Crane

Genre:-Contemporary/Literary

Pages:-389

Publisher:-TBLOD

Blurb:-A journey of rediscovery,

The unravelling of secrets,

and painful echoes of yesteryear,

...set in the magnificent scenery of the Scottish Highlands.

 In hedonistic London, with his wealth and success, Gary Huges seems to have it all, yet, an unshakeable emptiness gnaws at his soul.

 On a quest to rediscover his lost purpose, he embarks on a poignant journey back to the rugged beauty of the Scottish Highlands, from where echoes of his youth beckon. Auchenmore, the quaint Highland village that once held a fleeting promise of love, now stands as a poignant reminder of an unresolved past. As Gary grapples with the ghosts of his youth, he finds himself entangled in a web of long-buried secrets and emotions, until he is finally faced with the ultimate question, 'Who am I really?'

 But Gary's quest is not solitary as the past also casts a long shadow over others. Miriam yearns to break free from its grasp, its memories haunt Dorothy, and Nicholas is inexorably drawn back into its folds.

Past, Present, and Hope is a story of intertwined lives, where the echoes of yesteryears threaten to unravel the fragile threads of the present: a gripping journey of self-discovery, redemption, and the enduring power of hope.

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My Review:-This is book two in 'The Nicholas Trilogy'. I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing book one 'A Boy In A Storm.' I would highly recommend reading book one, but it can be read as a standalone. Along with some familiar characters we get to meet some new ones. Gary Huges takes us from London to Auchenmore a small village in the Scottish Highlands. Where Gary tries to reconnect with his past. Past, Present and Hope takes you on a journey of reconnecting, rebuilding and building new relationships. This is an exciting and amazing story, that you have to read. I can't wait to see what Oliver has for us in book three.