🌟Jaffareadstoo 12 in 12 ~ 2024🌟

 As the end of my reading year approaches

Here are my much anticipated 12 in 12

📖 Twelve authors who were new to me:

1. Alice McIlroy - The Glass Woman
2. Sally Keeble - Freeborn Girls
3. A.K.Blakemore - The Glutton
4. Joanna Tovey - The Little Penguin Bookshop
5. Jessica Moor - Hold Back the Night
6. Cara Reinhard - The Wife at the Window
7. Natasha Sammons - Before She Fell
8. G.D.Wright - After the Storm
9. Karen King - The Girl Next Door
10. Nicole Swengley - The Portrait Girl
11. Henry Porter - The Enigma Girl
12. Louise Davidson - The Fortunes of Olivia Richmond

📖 Twelve authors I have read before:

1. Nancy Revell - The Widow’s Choice
2. Lesley Pearse - The Long and Winding Road
3. Alison Morton - EXSILIUM 
4. Rosie  Clarke - Dangerous Times in Dressmaker’s Alley
5. Sarah Mallory - Wed in Haste to the Duke
6. Michael E Wills - Trouble
7. Jo Bartlett - A Found Family at the Cornish Country Hospital 
8. Ava Glass - The Trap
9. Laura Wilkinson - That Night in New York
10. A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal - Darcy McGuire
11. Daisy O’Shea - The Irish Family Secret
12. Julie Caplin - A Little Place in Prague

📖 Twelve books from authors I know will never let me down:

1. The Widows Choice - Nancy Revell
2. The Daughters of Mersey Square - Pam Howes
3. The Summer of Lies - Louise Douglas
4. The Teashop Girls at War - Elaine Everest 
5. The Split - S E Lynes
6. The Ghost of Seagull Cottage - Anne Allen
7. You, Me Her - Sue Watson
8. The Butterfly Garden - Rachel Burton
9. The Figurine - Victoria Hislop
10. Legacy of the Runes - Christina Courtenay
11. The  Royal Rebel - Elizabeth Chadwick 
12. The Viscount and the Thief - Emma Orchard 

🎧Twelve Audio Books I have enjoyed listening to:

1. The Dark Tide - Simon McCleave
2. The Perfumist of Paris - Alka Joshi
3. Men I’ve Loved Before - Adele Parks
4. The Outcast Dead - Ellie Griffiths
5. In Too Deep - Simon McCleave
6. The Ghost Fields - Ellie Griffiths
7. The Child - Fiona Barton
8. The Lady in Blue - Ellie Griffiths 
9. The Blackbird Oracle - Deborah Harkness 
10. The Dream Weavers - Barbara Erskine
11. Tansy Bloom, Monster Hunter - L J Weller
12. The Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths 

📖 Twelve books with covers I particularly liked:

1. Shadows in the Ashes - Christina Courtenay
2. The Sleeping Beauties - Lucy Ashe
3. A New Dawn at Owl’s Lodge - Jessica Redland
4. The House in the Water - Victoria Darke
5. Retreat From Nuala - Harriet Steel
6. The House of the Witch - Clare Marchant
7. Uncle Digit and the Truth about Magic - Jeremy Hullah
8. The Hollywood Governess Alexandra Weston
9. The Secret Orchard - Sharon Gosling
10. Twenty Poems about Classrooms - Candlestick Press
11. The Black Loch - Peter May
12. A Winter Dictionary - Paul Anthony Jones

📖 Twelve books that took me by the hand and led me into the past:

1. A Scandalous Match - Jane Dunn 
2. The King’s Witch - Tracy Borman
3. The Human Kind - Alexander Baron
4. The Persephone Code - Julia Goulding
5. Mary I: Queen of Sorrows - Alison Weir
6. The King’s Mother - Annie Garthwaite
7. The King’s Messenger - Susanna Kearsley
8. Diva - Daisy Goodwin
9. The Last Bookshop in Prague - Helen Parusel
10. The Island Girls - Rachel Sweasey
11. The Last Princess - Ellen Alpsten
12. Wanton Troopers - Lindsey Erith

📖 Twelve books that led me into a life of crime:

1. Hangman Island - Kate Rhodes 
2. The Mistress- Valerie Keogh 
3. Nowhere to Hide - Kerri Beevis
4. The Trial - Jo Spain
5. The Drowning Isle - Simon McGleave
6. The Life Sentence - Jackie Kabler
7. Home is where the Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose
8. Whispers of the Dead - Lin Anderson 
9. Talking to Strangers - Fiona Barton
10. One Bad Apple - Jo Jakeman
11. Disturbing the Bones - Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers
12. The Wives - Valerie Keogh

📖 Twelve Featured Books of the Month

1. The Woman on the Ledge - Ruth Mancini
2. What We Did in the Storm - Tina Baker
3. The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
4. The Household - Stacy Halls 
5. The Lost Memories - Lorna Cook
6. The Theatre of Glass and Shadows - Anne Corlett
7. The Burial Plot - Elizabeth Macneal
8. A Little Trickerie - Rosanna Pike
9. Scandalous Women - Gill Paul
10. The Blue Hour - Paula Hawkins
11. Place of Tides - James Rebanks
12. A Secret Photographs - Jacquie Boese

📖 Twelve Feel-Good Books : 

1. Ten Poems about Hats - Candlestick Press
2. A Breath of Fresh Air - Jessica Redland 
3. The Happiest Ever After - Milly Johnson
4. A Duke of One’s Own - Emma Orchard
5. Finding Friends at the Cornish Hospital - Jo Bartlett
6. Under A Summer Skye - Sue Moorcroft 
7. Thank you, Next - Kathryn Freeman
8. Love at First Sight - Jessica Gilmore
9. Lessons in Love at the Cornish Country Hospital - Jo Bartlett
10. All Creatures Great and Small TV Tie-In 
11. A Skye Full of Stars - Sue Moorcroft 
12. A Christmas Wish on Arran - Ellie Henderson

📖 Twelve Must Read Books :

1. Secrets of Cresswell Hall - Victoria Darke
2. What We Thought We Knew - Claire Dyer 
3. The Memory of Us - Dani Atkins
4. The Porcelain Moon - Janie Chang
5. The Wild Swimmers - William Shaw
6. The Next Mrs Parrish - Liv Constantin
7. The Gathering - C J Tudor
8. We Begin at the End - Chris Whitaker
9. Love and Other Lost Things - Melissa Weisner
10. True Love - Paddy Crewe
11. The Glassmaker - Tracy Chevalier
12. The Last Bookshop in Prague - Helen Parusel

📖 Twelve books I am looking forward to reading in 2025: 

1. Famous Last Words - Gillian McAllister
2. The Queen of Fives - Alex Hay
3. The Players  - Minette Walters
4. Six Poppies -  Lisa Carter
5. The Garden - Nick Newman
6. The Weyward Duke - Katrina Kendrick
7. Nesting - Roisin O’Donnell
8. The Wolf Tree - Laura McCluskey
9. Confessions - Catherine Airey
10. Water Moon. - Samantha Sotto Yambao
11. The Homemade God- Rachel Joyce 
12. The Eights - Joanna Miller

To all the blog readers and book bloggers who support Jaffareadstoo

To all these talented authors for sharing the gift of your imagination with me and to the publishers who continue to support Jaffareadstoo.

Your books have taken me on the most wonderful armchair adventures 😊

Come back on the 31st December when I reveal my favourites in Reads of the Year 2024.

📖 End of the Year Book List ~ 12 in 12

As the end of my reading year approaches

Here are my much anticipated 12 in 12

📖 Twelve authors who were new to me:

1. Lisa Hobman - Wishing Under a Starlit Sky
2. Annabel Abs - The Language of Food
3. Fay Keenan - New Beginnings at Roseford Hall
4. Julie Shackman - A Scottish Highland Surprise
5. Jayne Cowie - After Dark
6. Siobahn MCGowan - The Trial of Lotta Rae 
7. Elena Collins - The Witch's Tree
8. Eliza Knight - The Mayfair Bookshop
9. Penny Ingham - Twelve Nights
10. Sarah Duguid - The Wilderness
11. Kerri Beevis - The Sleepover
12. Angela Britnell - A Little Christmas Panto

📖 Twelve authors I have read before:

1. Rachael English - The Letter Home 
2. Jane Lovering - A Cottage Full of Secrets
3. Jennifer Bohnet - Villa of Second Chances
4. Three Cheers for the Shipyard Girls - Nancy Revell
5. Eva Glyn - An Island of Secrets
6. Kathryn Freeman - The Italian Job
7. Jo Bartlett - A Leap of Faith for the Cornish Midwife
8. Liza Perrat - Lake of Echoes
9. Linda Green - In Little Stars 
10. Kerri Beevis - The Sleepover
11. Robert J Lloyd - The Poison Machine
12. Phillipa Ashley - The Christmas Holiday

📖 Twelve books from authors I know will never let me down:

1. The Key in the Lock - Beth Underdown
2. Nicola Pryce - The Cornish Captive
3. Anna Mazola - The Clockwork Girl
4. Alison Weir - Elizabeth of York
5. Louise Beech - Nothing Else
6. Charlotte Betts - Letting in the Light
7. Sarah Stovell - Other Parents
8. Julia Prima - Alison Morton
9. Caroline Scott - Good Taste
10. Sue Moorcroft - A White Christmas on Winter Street
11. Yellow is for Sunflowers - Kathryn Freeman
12. Debbie Macomber - The Christmas Spirit

📖 Twelve Audio Books I have enjoyed listening to:

1. Little Bones - Sam Blake
2. The Phantom Tree - Nicola Cornick
3. The Winter Sea - Susanna Kearsley
4. The Shadowy Horses - Susanna Kearsley
5. Picture Her Dead - Lin Anderson
6. The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
7. The Dream Daughter - Diane Chamberlain
8. Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone - Diana Gabaldon
9. The Rock - L J Ross
10. The Various Haunts of Men - Susan Hill
11. The Chocolate Maker's Wife - Karen Brooks
12. Follow the Dead - Lin Anderson

📖 Twelve books that surprised me.....in a good way:

1. Dalvá - Laura Galloway
2. Oak - Katharine Towers
3. The Swallowed Man - Edward Carvey
4. Dog Leap Stairs - Barbara Emmett
5. Former Boy Wonder - Robert Graham
6. Detective Dachshund - Decima Blake
7. Writing from the Ukraine
8. The White Hare - Jane Johnson 
9. The Hollow Sea - Annie Kirby 
10. Ten Poems about Swimming - Candlestick Press
11. The Disobedient Women - Sangeeta Malay
12. The Picture Bride - Lee Geum-yi

📖 Twelve books that took me by the hand and led me into the past:

1. The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner
2. The Queen's Lady - Joanna Hickson
3. Conversos - V E H Masters
4. Traitor in the Ice - K J Maitland
5. Treason - Michael E Wills
6. The Missing Girls of Alardyce House - Heather Atkinson
7. Small Eden - Jane Davis
8. Daughters of Paris - Elizabeth Hobbes
9. The Hidden Palace - Dinah Jefferies
10. Good Taste - Caroline Scott
11. The Winter Garden - Nicola Cornick
12. Of All Faiths and None by Andrew Tweeddale

📖 Twelve books that took me into a world of crime and psychological suspense:

1. I know What You've Done - Dorothy Koomson
2. Sapphire - Heather Burnside
3. The Patient - Tim Sullivan
4. Breakneck Point - T Orr Munro
5. Dog Leap Stairs - Barbara Scott Emmett
6. Local Gone Missing - Fiona Barton
7. Deception - Lesley Pearse 
8. The Party House - Lin Anderson
9. Hope to Die - Cara Hunter
10. The 6:20 Man - David Baldacci
11. A Question of Identity - Susan Hill
12. The Hiker - M J Ford

📖 Twelve Non Fiction books 

1. The Fairy Tellers - Nicholas Jubber
2. 100 Voices  - edited, Miranda Roszkowski
3. Snow Widows - Katherine McInnes
4. The Heeding - Rob Cowen
5. Light Rains Sometimes Fall - Lev Parikian
6. End of Innocence - Zoe Apostolides
7. Britain by Night - Mark McNeil
8. Abandoned Britain -Simon Sugden 
9. Child of the East End - Jean Fullerton 
10. Lady Sapiens -Thomas Cirotteau, Dr Jennifer Kerner and Éric Pinca
11. The Boleyns : From the Tudors to the Windsors - Anna Harvey Purse
12. A Banker's Journey - Daniel Gross

📖 Twelve Books From Debut Authors :

1. Carole Johnstone - Mirrorland
2. June Wentland - Foolish Heroines
3. Susan Stokes- Chapman - Pandora 
4. Tricia Cresswell - The Midwife
5. Sally Page - The Keeper of Stories
6. Mel Giedroyc - The Best Things
7. Sophie Irwin - A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting 
8. Ellee Seymour - The Royal Station Master's Daughter  
9. Anita Faulkner - A Colourful Country Escape 
10. Cristina Bendek - Salt Crystals
11. Greg Mosse - The Coming Darkness 
12. Liz Hyder - The Gifts 

📖 Twelve Books I bought for myself :

1. The Locked Room - Elly Griffiths
2. The Lighthouse Witches - C J Cooke
3. The Whalebone Theatre - Joanna Quinn
4. Two Storm Wood - Philip Gray
5. The Plague Stones- James Brogdan
6. The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell
7. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stephenson
8. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carol
9. Letters in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
10. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
11. Daughter if the Forest - Juliet Marillier
12. The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley - Sean Lusk

📖 Twelve Feel-Good Novels :

1. Wishing under a Starlit Sky - Lisa Hardman
2. A Spring Surprise for the Cornish Midwife - Jo Bartlett
3. Tea for Two at the Cornish Kitchen - Jane Linfoot
4. The Girls - Bella Osborne
5. Three Cheers for the Shipyard Girls - Rosie Hendry
6. The Villa of Second Chances - Jennifer Bohnet
7. A Colourful Country Escape - Anita Falkener
8. Spring Tides at the Starfish Cafe - Jessica Redland
9. Summer at the French Cafe - Sue Moorcroft
10. The Italian Escape - Catherine Mangan
11. A Wedding at Sandy Cove - Bella Osborne
12. Christmas Castle in Scotland - Julie Caplin

📖 Twelve books I am looking forward to reading, and reviewing, in 2023:

1. Exiles - Jane Harper
2. The Witches of Vardo - Anja Bergman
3. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain - Victoria Mackenzie 
4. River Sing Me Home - Eleanor Shearer
5. Weyward - Emilia Hart
6. The Only Suspect - Louise Candlish
7. Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugents
8. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Fairies - Heather  Fawcett
9. Dirty Laundry - Disha Bose 
10. Mrs Van Gogh - Caroline Cauchi
11. We All Want Impossible Things - Catherine Newman 
12. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels - Janice Hallett 

To all the blog readers and book bloggers who support Jaffareadstoo

To all these talented authors for sharing the gift of your imagination with me and to the publishers who continue to support Jaffareadstoo in so many generous ways.

Your books have taken me on the most wonderful armchair adventures 😊

Come back on the 31st December when I reveal the books I thought were truly special

📖 Half Year Round Up ~ Six in Six

It's that time of year when I take a look at the first six months of my reading year

📖 Six authors who were new to me:

1. Julienne Brouwers - Double Deceit
2. Linda Tyler - The Laird's Secret 
3. Beth Morrey - Saving Missy
4. Tracey Bloom - The Wife Who Got A Life
5. Paula Greenlees - Journey to Paradise
6. Kate Hewitt - The Edelweiss Sisters

📖 Six authors I have read before:

1. Dorothy Koomson - All My Lies are True 
2. Helen Fields - Shadow Man
3. Patricia Scanlon - A Family Reunion 
4. Carol Cooper - The Girls from Alexandria
5. Sue Moorcroft - Under the Italian Sun
6. The Lost Hours - Susan Lewis

📖 Six books from authors I know will never let me down:

1. The Burning Girls - C J Tudor
2. The Scarlet Dress - Louise Douglas
3. Mr Right Across the Street - Kathryn Freeman
4. The Sewing Room Girl - Susanna Bavin
5. Dead Ground - M W Craven
6. How to be Human - Louise Beech

📖 Six books that led me into a life of crime:

1. Night Swim - Megan Goldin
2. Exit - Belinda Bauer
3. The Whole Truth - Cara Hunter
4. Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller
5. Condemned - R C Bridgestock
6. The Happy Family - Jackie Kabler

📖 Six books that took me by the hand and led me into the past:

1. A Net for Small Fishes - Lucy Jago
2. The Heart Stone - Judith Barrow
3. The Drowned City - Karen Maitland
4. The Prophet - Martine Bailey
5. The Damask Rose - Carol McGrath
6. Mrs England - Stacey Hall

📖 Six debut authors:

1. Sarah Pearse - The Sanatorium
2. Tina Baker - Call Me Mummy
3. V L Valentine - The Plague Letters
4. Anna Bailey - Tall Bones
5. Jennifer Saint - Ariadne
6. In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced - Justine Bothwick

To these talented authors for sharing the gift of your imagination with me. 

So far in 2021 your books have taken me on the most wonderful adventures 

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Half Year Round up ~ Six in Six

It's that time of year when I take a look at the first six months of my reading year 

📖 Six authors who were new to me:

1. Jeannine Cumins - American Dirt
2. Ann Napolitano - Dear Edward
3. Therese Ann Fowler - A Good Neighbourhood
4. Catherine Jinks - Shepherd
5. Wendy Holden - Born Survivors
6. Kathleen McGurl - The Secrets of the Chateau

📖 Six authors I have read before:

1. Dorothy Koomson - Tell Me Your Secret
2. J P Carter - Little Boy Lost
3. Linda Green - One Moment
4. Lorna Cook - The Forbidden Promise
5. Caroline Kirby - When We Fall
6. Rosanna Ley  - From Venice with Love 

📖 Six books from authors I know will never let me down:

1. B A Paris -The Dilemma
2. Elly Griffiths - The Lantern Men
3. Elisabeth Gifford - The Lost Lights of St Kilda
4. The Secrets of Ironbridge - Mollie Walton
5. A Ration Book Wedding - Jean Fullerton
6. Up Close and Personal - Kathryn Freeman

📖 Six books that surprised me.....in a good way:

1. The Home - Sarah Stovell
2. Under the Stars - Matt Gaw
3. Just Another Mountain - Sarah Jane Douglas
4. The Lost Child - Emily Gunnis
5. Cabinet of Comfort - Paul Anthony Jones
6. The Weight of Small Things - Julie Lancaster

📖 Six books that took me by the hand and led me into the past:

1. Lady of the Ravens - Joanna Hickson
2. The Foundling - Stacey Halls
3. Echoes of the Runes - Christina Courtney
4. The Book of Longings - Sue Monk Kidd
5. The Silken Rose - Carol McGrath
6. The Mysterious Miss Fairchild - Sarah Mallory

📖 Six books I am looking forward to reviewing:

1. The Tuscan Contessa - Dinah Jefferies
2. Liar - Lesley Pearse
3. The Illustrated Child - Polly Crosby
4. The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon - Sarah Steele
5. Daughters of Night - Laura Shepherd
6. The Light Within Us - Charlotte Betts

A MASSIVE THANK YOU 

to all these talented authors for sharing the gift of your imagination with me. 

So far in 2020 your books have taken me on the most wonderful adventures 😊

My Six in Six...

And here we are at the end of June already and half way through my reading year



So here are my 6 in 6... in no particular order

Six new authors to me:

Joanna Nell

Victoria Sellman

Anna Sayburn

Vivienne Shannon

Caroline Kington

Anna Smith

Six authors I have read before:

Julia Quinn

Amanda Brooke

Rosie Howard

Jill Marsh

Mel Sherratt

Liv Constantine

Six books from authors I know will never let me down:

Maybe This Time - Jill Mansell

The Newcomer - Fern Britton

Bladesmith - Melinda Hammond

That Deplorable Boy - Jasper Barry

A Summer to Remember - Sue Moorcroft

The Strawberry Thief - Joanne Harris

Six books that took me by the hand and led me into the past:

Blood Queen -Joanna Courtney

The Cornish Lady - Nicola Pryce

The Conviction of Cora Burns - Carolyn Kirby

Anna of Kleves - Alison Weir

Belle of the Back Streets - Glenda Young

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock - Imogen Hermes Gowar

Six books that led me into a life of crime:

The Village of Lost Girls - Agustin Martinez

The Puppet Show - M W Craven

Blood Orange - Harriet Tyce

Apple of My Eye - Clare Allan

#Taken - Tony Parsons

The Last Widow - Karin Slaughter

Six books that left a lasting impression on me:

A River in the Trees by Jacqueline O'Mahoney

The Familiars - Stacey Halls

The Forgotten Village - Lorna Cook

Wakenhyrst - Michelle Paver

Under the Rock - Benjamin Myers

Concert - Hannah Fielding

Happy Reading

Thanks to  Jo at the Book Jotter for this idea