BookTrail Book Awards – 2024
BookTrail Book Awards – 2024
The Awards are back! It’s that time of year again when we celebrate those memorable bookish moments. The books that have fallen through the door, into the trolley, heck even into your hand in the bookshore. The memories made and the funny moments captured.
First up – The one with a fantastic dreamy location
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Set in the very real area of Tokyo called Jimbocho – A neighbourhood filled with bookstores!
I would love to go here for real even if 1% of this book is real!
The one with the best adventure
Saltblood
Oh this was good! I have always wanted to go on a pirate ship and sail the seven seas. Maybe minus the pillaging and the violence but hey ho. This book was fantastic.
You don’t often get to meet female pirates but Mary Read was amazing. Loved the bookish name too. She was actually a real life pirate but Francesca has taken her life and other details and fictionalised a swashbuckling story.
What a ride!
The series I am most excited about
The Troubled Deep
This fell onto the mat and I started reading it straight away. Fresh voice by an acclaimed author Rob Parker. But a brilliant new series involving a police diver who looks into cold cases in Norfolk.
The one where I go back to a very happy time
Dead Behind the Eyes
This crime mystery set in Tours, France. I haven’t read much modern English language fiction set here so that was a lovely surprise!
Beautiful place and lovely people. The food! The places to wander and read books!
Cracking novel too.
The quirky one
Maps of Imaginary Towns
The title got me, the writing made me stay. Loved the concept and how it was imagined.
The one where my eyes were opened
Scandalous Women
I had no idea about Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann and the birth of the sexy novel! I didn’t even know what Valley of the Dolls was about. Boy did I learn something in THIS book. No wonder the cover is the colour of a flushed cheek. Just sayin.haha
The one where I met a very shady character from the past
A Poisoner’s Tale
I had no idea there was a woman in Italy, back in the day, who created a network of drug dealers essentially who sold poisons to anyone who needed them. Poisons that women could put in their husbands food or drink if they wanted to be free from their marriage or abusive relationship. Italy was very religious at the time and women were restricted in what they could and couldn’t do. This was so well written and researched that I ended up cheering them on. Impressive!
What an epic reading year!! Hope you had one too.
Susan x
