As a professional book reviewer and UK broadcaster, I provide honest, expert manuscript and editorial book reviews for authors and publishers across the UK and internationally. Whether you're a self-published author, a debut novelist, or a publishing imprint preparing a title for release, every review is built to strengthen credibility, boost visibility and earn genuine reader confidence.
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As a professional book reviewer, I offer thoughtful, reader-focused manuscript reviews and editorial book reviews for both consumer and professional titles. This includes book reviews for publishers and imprints, as well as constructive, honest manuscript reviews for authors preparing non-fiction titles for self-publishing or submission. Every review considers structure, clarity, thematic focus and overall impact — giving authors clear insight into how their work resonates with readers, and credible, quotable content to support self-publishing and submission goals.
A selection of recent, professional book reviews — spanning fiction, memoir, current affairs and more — showing the depth and honesty every author or publisher can expect.
ROCKNROLLA Thursday evening, the summer of 1979 and the Foster clan (Mum, Dad and four know it all teenagers), are in the lounge watching the highlight of the viewing week – Top of The Pops. Dad lets rip with a robust “phwoar” as a girl from Legs & Co, TOTP’s all female dance troupe, executes a …
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What does the physicist Albert Einstein have in common with singer Rita Ora, writer Elie Wiesel, activist rapper MIA (Mathangi Arulpagasam), and basketball star Luol Deng? Apart from being famous, they’re also refugees who were forced to leave the countries where they were born because of war, violence, and persecution. In every generation there are people like them who beat the …
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FROM RUSSIA WITH THORNS Moscow 1940: a young woman is escorted from her apartment into the back of a waiting car by two smartly dressed men. A third man is already inside, partially shielded by the evening darkness. He taps his fingers against the car’s glass partition and orders the chauffeur to drive on. The …
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THE CONFIDENCE GAME Scene 1: I am walking through a corridor that is lit by brightly coloured rows of ceiling strip lights. The bare painted walls are almost gleaming with whiteness. The sight intrigues me although I can’t think about it in a meaningful way because I am on a mission. The fist sized knot …
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STORM NAVIGATION Former Liberal Democrat politician and ex-Royal Dutch Shell Chief Economist Vince Cable, has written a comprehensive and readable analysis of the UK economy and how it should respond to the complex challenges arising from globalisation and weaknesses in emerging economies. After the Storm is the highly anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed book The Storm which examined …
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GET SMART Do you have a pension? What about savings, have you got any? If the answer to all those questions is “No” then maybe you should read Mary Waring’s The Wealthy Woman: A Man Is Not a Financial Plan. Waring is a chartered accountant and financial adviser who also happens to be on a mission …
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LOOKING THE OTHER WAY Not a day goes by without a newspaper, television, or radio report about the seizure of multi-billion-dollar assets owned by oligarchs with links to the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Since February 24th 2022, when Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, the global authorities have appropriated valuable real estate, rare works of …
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BEWARE THE MARKETS How should history remember Alan Greenspan? As the US Federal Reserve Chairman who made America rich? Or as a monetarist villain whose policies sowed the ground for the 2007/2008 financial crash? The fact the question even arises is a measure of how far his star has fallen. Once lauded as an economics …
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Carrie Bradshaw, the fictitious newspaper columnist in TV’s Sex and the City, almost certainly had her finger on the pulse when she said, “Maybe mistakes are what make our fate…without them what would shape our lives?” Bradshaw was no intellectual heavyweight (and in fairness she never claimed to be), yet in the show’s six- year …
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A young West Indian boy and a thick set man with a scarred face and shabby clothes, weave their way through a crowded grimy street in 18th century London, oblivious to the bemused stares of the passers’ by. The man is Doctor Samuel Johnson, poet, essayist and compiler of the first English language dictionary. His …
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This first volume of poems by Ockham’s Mary Pargeter is an exquisite feast of childhood memories, states of love and life reflections. She writes with the lightness of petals falling on water, yet underscoring the mildness is an honesty that surprises with its intensity. Pargeter, a successful graphic designer, isn’t afraid to wear her heart …
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It’s Monday morning, the Woking to Waterloo train pulls in at the station and there’s standing room only in all the carriages! Sure it’s annoying but what can you do? Wait for the next one, (which might be even more crowded), or grin and bear the hassle of being sandwiched between hundreds of jostling, bad …
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Antonia Fraser, (who I was lucky enough to interview at last month’s Surrey Heath Book Festival), turns the spotlight on one of the most volatile and extraordinary periods of nineteenth century British political history, with a narrative whose twists and turns grip the reader from start to finish. The 1832 Reform Act may have been …
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Sunday Times Best Selling Author Isabel Wolf, (whose work was featured in May’s Surrey Heath Book Festival), has come up trumps again with her latest offering, Ghostwritten. When Jenni Clark agrees to ghost write the memoirs of Klara, a survivor of Japan’s Second World War internment camps, she is unprepared for the coincidences and parallels …
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A death bed confession, some black and white photographs, the disgraced politician living in retirement in the Surrey village of Shere and the young woman who befriends him after a casual conversation in the William Bray pub. Disparate, seemingly unconnected threads which in the gifted hands of Carshalton author Jane Davis, are skilfully woven into …
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Disappointment is an occupational hazard for a book reviewer. I’ve read more than my fair share of novels shamelessly hyped as “brilliant” and “unforgettable” that turn out to be as memorable as a visit to the bathroom! Hence my scepticism when a copy of TR Richmond’s “What She Left” landed on my desk – complete …
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