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Special Feature: Upcoming Holiday Reading Michele Gorman’s Christmas Carol

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I always try and post about new upcoming cover reveals, author chats, and other literary related events and I know a lot of you are out there looking for new for your holiday reading lists!

So I thought this sounded like a cheeky book to add to your holiday reading!

Michele Gorman’s Christmas Carol is coming down the chimney on October 24th!

Gorman is also the author of the hilarious chick lit series, Single in the City.

This latest novella is a wickedly funny re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol. Here is a summary of the novella:

One winter wedding, two happy couples, three ex-boyfriends… And a very uncomfortable weekend.

Carol hates Christmas. Being recently dumped, she’s not crazy about weddings either. So her sister Marley’s nuptials, over the Christmas weekend, are making her positively Scrooge-like.

When she arrives for the weekend at the stately home in rural Scotland to find her three ex-boyfriends in attendance, Carol has no choice but to face her ghosts to discover what really happened in those relationships, learning a lot about herself in the process. As the snow falls outside and the fire crackles in the hearth, might one of the wedding guests become the harbinger of Christmases to come?

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Review: Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener

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In Sweden one fateful night, the life of a young English woman changes forever. Giselle Barrington witnesses the murder of her father, a spy for the British crown. While in Sweden, Giselle’s (Gigi) father procures a dangerous document that if discovered could mean a political nightmare for England, France, Sweden, and Russia!

It’s for this document he is killed for. He gave the document to Gigi to keep safe shortly before he will killed. After witnessing the murder Gigi knows three things–she must take the document safely back to England and second, the person who killed her father was also British which means there is a traitor in her father’s circle, and finally that man who killed her father will surely come for her next.

She needs to get it in into the hands of someone she can trust but she’s been away from the English court for so long and her father basically kept her in the dark as to his dealings.

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Review: Havisham by Ronald Frame

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What is it about Catherine Havisham that you remember the most from the classic Great Expectations? Is it all the clocks stuck on a specific time? The old decaying wedding dress?

Whatever it is about Miss Havisham, she haunts not only the novel but our memory long after reading Great Expectations.

Do you find yourself wondering what her life might have been like prior to being jilted at the alter? What might her back story have been? I know I thought about this the entire time I was reading Great Expectations.

In Ronald Frame’s novel, Havisham, we get a chance to see what Catherine Havisham’s life was like before she became the haunting figure we know so well.

Catherine Havisham was from ‘new money’. Her father did rather well with this brewery and provided some finery for his daughter. She is always aware that the Havisham names means something in her town.

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Review: The Arrow Chest by Robert Parry

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Ghostly hauntings, forbidden love, high society, the occult….what could be more thrilling? The Arrow Chest is a haunting Gothic tale of love set in the Victorian era with a distinct Tudor element.

Painter Amos Roselli has been in love with his childhood friend and muse, Daphne for years.

Daphne has modeled for a number of Roselli’s paintings for years, but when the rich industrialist Lord Oliver Ramsey of Bowlend commissions Roselli for a portrait he discovers the course of Roselli’s inspiration–the strikingly beautiful Daphne.

Ramsey pursues Daphne with vigor and vengeance, ultimately winner her hand. A marriage to Ramsey is ideal for Daphne. He is rich and can offer her a life of luxury and for a women like Daphne, this life has its own appeal.

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Announcement: Winner What Maisie Knew by Henry James

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And the winner of What Maisie Knew by Henry James is…..

Ty W(follows on Twitter).

The winner will be notified via email.

Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to Viking/Penguin for making this giveaway possible!

If you haven’t gone out to watch the film yet, do. This isn’t one that you want to miss! A modern retelling of a classic featuring the sexy and talented Alexander Skarsgård? I’m in!