Postcards – Greece is the word

Greece is the word

I do love flicking through magazines to read the book reviews. They’re often fun and quirky although I do wish there were more of them! Having said that, in this week’s Heat Magazine I was very pleased indeed to see a book there that I’d read a while ago and like many other bloggers could not wait to shout about.

It’s only the debut novel of Heat’s very own books lady Isabelle Broom! Would the woman who has given readers so many tips and hits about fiction over the years deliver a cracking novel herself?

Well yes. Oh yes.

It’s the perfect book for a booktrail after all! From the very existence of the map to the sense of adventure when Holly travels and Greece opens up in front of her.

Zakynthos – My Map of You

The premise of the whole book was exciting. Turtle beach? yes please! Staying in Zakynthos,– oh go on then! This should be read on a tour to soak up each and every spot on that idyllic map.

The book is out tomorrow DO NOT MISS. We’re off to somewhere Greek with Isabelle for a cuppa and a cake tomorrow. Excited is NOT the word!

TILOS – An Octopus in my Ouzo

Speaking of which…. the second book to be reviewed on the page is a memoir entitled An Octopus in My Ouzo: Loving Life on a Greek Island. Not sure I’d want an eight legged creature in my drink but the mental image of that did make me chuckle and having met Jen, sums up her sense of humour!

The blurb says ‘Escape to the sunlight and colour of a wild island in the south Aegean’. Well that got me straight away and I was keen to find out what happened to Jen following her Falling in Honey where she writes of her life in Tilos. She goes here expecting the quiet life in paradise but gets something else entirely and reading the book is like going with her, with a good friend.
Deciding to live on this island and call it home, she paints a picture of what she sees with her words and they’re so evocative I swear I could taste that ouzo as I wrote. It’s a  real joy to live amongst the villagers with her and join her adventures.

So – you choose,  a fact finding holiday or a fictional jaunt to a Greek island? We recommend both. Greek is the word remember.

My Map Of You by Isabelle Broom (Michael Joseph, £7.99) is out tomorrow!!

An Octopus in My Ouzo out now!

Heat magazine with even more book reviews out now as well