Category: Usborne Publishing

Blog Tour: Faye’s Favourite Mysteries – My Secret Lies With You by Faye Bird

Posted June 10, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Blog Tour, Guest Post, Mystery, Thriller, UKYA, Usborne Publishing, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Monday Everyone. Today I’m really excited to kicking off the blog tour for Faye Bird’s latest YA thriller, My Secret Lies With You! It’s amazing and it’s certainly this summer’s top YA thriller of the year. You can read it one sitting like me. My full review will be up later this week. I’ve met Faye years ago when I first started as a librarian, and I bought her books at the event there and I couldn’t put them down. So I would highly recommend Faye’s book if you love Karen McManus and most recently Holly Jackson. The theme […]

Blog Tour – Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans: Kick-Ass Women in Science-Fiction

Posted May 12, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Blog, Blog Tour, Discussion Post, Guest Post, Science Fiction, UKYA, Usborne Publishing / 1 Comment

Happy Sunday everyone. Today I bring you a post as part of the blog tour for Kathryn Evan’s brand new science fiction thriller, Beauty Sleep. This is a book was featured on my most anticipated reads of 2019 and today I am finally reading it. It’s brilliant. Also the cover, the real book is even more beautiful. So today I am talking about my favourite women in sci-fi across books and film. But before that here is a little bit more about the gorgeous Beauty Sleep. My Favourite Women in Science-Fiction So instantly when I said I love to […]

BLOG TOUR: REVIEW & GUEST POST – SLAY ON TOUR by Kim Curran

Posted January 17, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, Guest Post, Kim Curran, Slay, Usborne Publishing / 3 Comments

What a way to kick off 2019!! I’m so excited to be part of the SLAY On Tour blog tour. The excitement when this book came in the post a couple of days before Christmas felt like Christmas had came early for me. This was my first book of 2019 and what a way to start it. SLAY on Tour (SLAY #2) by Kim Curran Publisher – Usborne Publishing Release Date – OUT NOW! Buy – Amazon | Book Depository SLAY are BACK…and this time they’re headed to Tokyo to track down another hell-raising demon. When they’re invited on tour […]

BLOG TOUR – ROSIE LOVES JACK: IMPORTANT JOURNEYS

Posted December 3, 2018 by Emma in Blog Tour, Featured, Important Journeys, Mel Darbon, Rosie Loves Jack, Usborne Publishing / 0 Comments

Today I’m so happy to be part of this blog tour celebrating important journeys. I’ll be honest I wasn’t sure what to write at first and then it hit me… and this feels like one the most honest and best piece of writing I’ve written about myself on here. So I really hope you enjoy. A LIBRARY HOLDS MILLIONS OF JOURNEYS… but all you need to do is find just one – MY JOURNEY. Every one has a life journey, we all embark on that special journey we know will stay with us forever. I was going to start this […]

REVIEW – A PLACE CALLED PERFECT by Helena Duggan

Posted October 15, 2018 by Emma in 2017 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Fantasy, Featured, Helena Duggan, Middle Grade, Mystery, Usborne Publishing / 0 Comments

A book that will haunt you in the best way possible weeks after you’ve read it. A Place Called Perfect (Perfect #1) by Helena Duggan Publisher – Usborne Children’s Publishing Release Date – August 1st 2017 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Violet never wanted to move to Perfect. Who wants to live in a town where everyone has to wear glasses to stop them going blind? And who wants to be neat and tidy and perfectly behaved all the time? But Violet quickly discovers there’s something weird going on – she keeps hearing noises in the night, her mum […]

GUEST POST – Tamsin Winter discusses her tips to surviving secondary school…

Posted September 10, 2018 by Emma in Guest Post, School, Tamsin Winter, Usborne Publishing / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, it’s a new term, a lot of us are returning to work like me as librarian or a teacher and some of you are heading back to school. Some of you are heading back for GCSE year, starting college of Sixth Form, going to University or could you be starting that journey from scratch with your first year in secondary school. There are a lot of books in Teen and YA that really captures a teenagers life, through school, family, friendships, and social media. So this month I’ve got some of my favourite authors that really talk about […]

REVIEW – ARE WE ALL LEMMINGS AND SNOWFLAKES? by Holly Bourne

Posted August 15, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Contemporary, Holly Bourne, UKYA, Usborne Publishing / 2 Comments

Holly Bourne’s book are always my most anticipated, as soon as finished the latest from her, I’m craving for more. I was so excited when it came through the door from Usborne, I really am so very lucky. It’s not unknown that she is my favourite author. Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? by Holly Bourne Publisher – Usborne Publishing Release Date – August 9th 2018 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at “normality” for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for the new friends she never expected […]

BLOG TOUR: REVIEW – THEATRICAL by Maggie Harcourt

Posted July 28, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Blog Tour, Book Review, Maggie Harcourt, Theatrical, Usborne Publishing / 1 Comment

Happy YALC Day everyone and to those who aren’t there like me, I hope your enjoying a bookish day in the a cooler environment. Once again I seem to be on some amazing blog tours at the moment. This one I’ve been excited since I found out. I admit I finished the book only few days and it’s still with me at the moment. The feels from Maggie’s writing is just…unimaginable really. As part of the blog tour as well as our review, we also share our memories of theatre. Mine is a little different so don’t forget to continue […]

📚 REVIEW – SLAY by Kim Curran

Posted June 5, 2018 by Emma in 4 Stars, Book Review, Kim Curran, Slay, Usborne Publishing / 0 Comments

SLAYby Kim CurranPublisher – Usborne PublishingRelease Date – May 3rd 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Meet SLAY – SLAY do two things and they do them well: they play killer music and they slay killer demons. When Milly, the lonely daughter of a world-famous opera singer, arrives home to discover that her mum has been taken over by something very evil, she finds herself in mortal danger. But the last people she expects to rescue her are the hottest boy band on the planet… Enter SLAY: playing kickass gigs in the spotlight, and saving the world from demons in […]