I popped into town and bought myself a few books from my favourite independent bookshop, plus a little extra book themed item, so I thought I would share with you what I picked up!
Let’s take a look!
I love these covers. I have read the first three books in the ‘Dream Harbour’ series, and I am currently reading number four! ‘The Daisy Chain Flower Shop’ is book six, which brings me onto my next purchase…
This is just a picture of the cover because I ordered this one as they didn’t have any more of these in stock, so that will be arriving at the weekend! Woohoo!!
This book comes highly recommended in my local indie bookshop and if you have followed my blog, or know me, you’ll know that me and my husband love Italy! So I love that it is set in Rome.
I won’t lie, the cover attracted me first because I like pink and green and sushi 🤣 then I read the blurb and it sounded intriguing and then I realised it was written by the comedian Mark Watson, who is very funny, sold!
Any book that has bookshop in the title piques my interest and this sounded so cute! And its a nice short one. I’ve read a couple of translated fiction books in the last couple of years and always find them quite different to my usual read but also really interesting so I’m looking forward to this.
I got this one to read to the children when I go back to work in September. This book is all about celebrating the magic of reading, and I’m all about that ✨️
I also, FINALLY, picked up the ‘Book Club’ hat from Primark! I love it and it was only £4.50 🧢
Would it too much to actually wear it to Book Club?!?! Haha 😄
This year I wanted to set some reading intentions for 2026. I find Reading Challenges, although fun, quite tricky to stick to, especially set titles as I think my book choice (unless it’s for Book Club) is quite driven by my mood and what I fancy at the time, as well as releases in certain months.
Lets see how its going so far…
Try to read at least 4 books a month.
January: 5
February: 6
March: 6
April: 3
May: 4
June: 5
Try and read at least 2 different genres each month.
I read ‘A Neighbours Guide to Murder’ with a physical book and on Spotify.
Book Events
An author afternoon with Louise Candlish discussing her latest book ‘ A Neighbours Guide to Murder’. This was a library event snd was really enjoyable.
My local, indie bookshop Book Club for March was discussing ‘The Dentist’ by Tim Sullivan. A brilliantly funny talk.
Last weekend I attended a book event with my mother in law.
We went to see bestselling author Louise Candlish, promoting her latest novel ‘A Neighbours Guide to Murder’.
When she told me about it I thought, why not! At the time I hadn’t read any of her books, but I had seen the TV adaptation of her novel ‘Our House’, which was really good. I started to listen to her latest book, on Spotify a few days before the event.
It was a brilliant talk and it was really interesting to hear about her writing process, how she comes up with her ideas and themes, and her work making some of her books into TV adaptations.
One of my ‘Reading Intentions’ for the year was to attend more book events, so I was really pleased this came up.
She was really friendly to talk to and very obliging when it came to signing books.
I bought a physical copy of her latest book so that I could carry on reading it. I also bought a copy of her novel ‘ The Only Suspect’ because she said in that book are her favourite and best twists, 2 of them, and I love a twist in a thriller so I was sold! She signed this for me too!
Roseanne Byford 