Book Spotlight: This is Me Trying by Jenna Adams
Today I'm part of a virtual book tour organised by The Write Reads for This is Me Trying by Jenna Adams. The tour for ‘This is Me Trying' will run from 9th - 18th July 2025.
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Genre: Contemporary, Coming-of-Age
Age Category: Young Adult
Publisher: Neem Tree Press/Unbound Publishing
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Publication Date: July 17, 2025
Book synopsis for This is Me Trying by Jenna Adams
A contemporary YA romance novel exploring sexual consent, mental health, and co-dependency. When 14-year-old Brooke and 17-year-old Matt are cast as romantic leads in their drama group's performance of Romeo and Juliet, they didn't mean to actually fall in love. Brooke considers secrets and lies a small price to pay for a relationship with an older guy, until she discovers that Matt's role in taking their relationship to the next level one night was illegal. When her anxiety reaches breaking point, she makes a decision that changes her life forever.
Years later and now adults, Matt is reunited with Brooke, desperately seeking redemption. Can they both find the strength to forgive one other, or is it too late?
Told in three acts this captivating debut reveals a young woman’s journey for independence as she strays away from everything she has ever known to navigate her traumatic past.
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About the author, Jenna Adams
Jenna Adams began writing at the age of fourteen and now writes from her third-floor flat, which is full of houseplants. She has written for a variety of publications including The Book Network, Brook Charity, and The Content Wolf, and is passionate about exploring mental health, consent, and codependency in her writing.
You can find out more about her work on her website, www.jennaadamswriter.com
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Book Spotlight: Calm by SJ Barker
Today I'm part of a virtual book tour organised by The Write Reads for Calm by SJ Barker. The tour for ‘Calm' will run from 16th - 25th September 2024.
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Publisher: Neem Tree Press
Length: 288 Pages
Genre: Dystopian Thriller
Age Category: YA
Date Published: 19 September 2024
Book synopsis for Calm by SJ Barker
In this enthralling dystopian YA thriller where emotions become weapons, the fight for humanity’s true essence takes centre stage.In a near-future Britain, society’s calm facade conceals a sinister truth: the state maintains its control by meddling with the nation’s water supply. The result? A population lulled into apathy. Lulled, apart from a courageous few known as the Resistors.
New Resistor Owyn joins lifelong Resistor Tiegan in a fierce quest for freedom. Spurred on by the promise of a mass Resistance, they ignite a chain of events that shakes the foundations of Britain’s oppressive regime.
One thing is clear: the price of freedom is higher than they ever imagined.
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About the author
S. J. Baker teaches English in a secondary school in Hull, where she does her best to pass on her own love for reading and writing to her students. Books have always loomed large in Ms. Baker’s life, so it was perhaps inevitable that after completing a degree in English Literature at Cambridge she should train as a teacher and spend her career sharing her love of story-telling with young people. Reading aloud to her own children as they grew up confirmed her in the belief that we learn much about life and how to live well from the books that we read. She lives in East Yorkshire with her husband and two exuberant black Labradors.
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Book Spotlight: Nocturne With Gaslamps by Matthew Francis
Today I'm part of a virtual book tour organised by The Write Reads for Nocturne With Gaslamps by Matthew Francis. The tour for ‘Nocturne With Gaslamps' will run from 10th - 23rd September 2024.
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Publisher: Neem Tree Press
Length: 224 Pages
Genre: Mystery
Age Category: YA
Date Published: 5th September 2022
Book synopsis for Nocturne With Gaslamps by Matthew Francis
A historical crime fiction novel set in Victorian London’s gaslit theatre scene, where ghosts lurk in the shadows and murder takes centre stage.Gaslight. Ghosts. Murder.
Hastings Wimbury has always dreamt of playing Hamlet, but for now he works as a theatre gas-boy. Here, he tends to a gas chandelier so powerful it creates its own weather, and limelight machines that can throw a shadow onto a wall ten miles away.
When Hastings suddenly disappears, his fiancée Flora sets out to find him with the help of Cassie, her rival in love who is more preoccupied with the ghosts terrorising the streets of London. Soon total darkness is imposed upon the city, and they realise that something far more sinister is at hand…
Ladies aren’t supposed to solve mysteries, but this is a matter of life and death.
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About the author
Matthew Francis is Professor Emeritus in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. He read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge University. He writes novels, short stories, and poetry collections. He has won the TLS / Blackwell's Prize for Poetry and the Southern Arts Literature Prize, and been shortlisted twice for the Forward Prize, twice for the Welsh Book of the Year Award and once for the Ted Hughes Award. In 2004, he was chosen as one of the Next Generation Poets. He is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Matthew lives with this wife in Aberystwyth, Wales where he enjoys playing chess, cooking and playing the ukulele.
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