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Literary Review Team

Welcome to the Literary Review Team, comprising over 30 dedicated book reviewers ready to support authors with transparent, honest, insightful reviews. This service is available to all Russell-Alexander Publishing authors as part of our Premium Editing Package and New Author Packages, helping to ensure your book garners early attention and engagement. Reviews from our team will be shared across various social media platforms on the day of publication, enhancing your book’s visibility and credibility from the start.

Our Literary Review Team is also available to external authors who are not currently working with Russell-Alexander Publishing. If you’re seeking unbiased, honest book reviews, please contact your preferred reviewers directly for a quotation. This option allows all authors to benefit from insightful reviews from our Reviewers, helping you reach your target audience with genuine feedback.

Lucy

Preferred Genres:
All Genres

About Lucy:

Books Reviewed:

Waagtail – Annie Woodcock
Death of a Bookseller – Alice Slater
No-one Saw a Thing – Andrea Mara
Magpie – Elizabeth Day
The Love Of My Afterlife – Kirsty Greenwood
The List – Yomi Adegoke
Blue Sisters – Coco Mellors
Where Sleeping Girls Lie – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Sweetpea – C.J Skuse
The Woman on the Pier – B.P Walter
You Said I Was Your Favourite – Monica Murphy
Don’t Swipe Right – L.M Chilton
The Lost Bookshop – Evie Woods
Dying For Christmas – Tammy Cohen

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Megan Yelland-Gilmartin

Preferred Genres:
All Genres

About Megan Yelland-Gilmartin:

Books Reviewed:

Just Boris – Sonia Purnell; Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney; A history of Britain in ten enemies – Terry Deary; Magnolia Parks, The Long Way Home – Jessa Hastings; One Day  David Nichols; Mary I Queen of Sorrows – Alison Weir; Politics on the Edge – Rory Stewart; Surviving Playboy – Crystal Hefner; Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying To Me? – Rob Burley; Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo; Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess – Andrew Lownie; Legends & Lattes – Travis Baldree; The Trading Game – Gary Stevenson; How To Solve Your Own Murder – Kristen Perrin; If He Had Been With Me – Laura Nowlin; Chums by Simon Kuper; Never – Jessa Hastings; Piglet – Lottie Hazell; Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege and the Murdaugh Family – John Glatt; The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting – KJ Charles; Daisy Haites – Jessa Hastings; The Weekend Away – Miranda Smith; A Curse for True Love – Stephanie Garber; Freezing Order – Bill Browder; Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus; The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read – Phillipa Perry;

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Olivia Bairstow

Preferred Genres:
All Genres

About Olivia Bairstow:

Books Reviewed:

Wagtail – Annie Woodcock
Life of Pi – Yann Martell
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
A Child –

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Poppy Falzon

Preferred Genres:
Romance, Thriller, Fantasy.

About Poppy Falzon:

Books reviewed: Wagtail – Annie Woodcock;

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Rachel McMahon

Preferred Genres:
All Genres: special interest in Romance and Fantasy.

About Rachel McMahon:

Books Reviewed:

Wagtail – Annie Woodcock

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Rebecca Griffiths

Preferred Genres:
All Genres

About Rebecca Griffiths:

Books Reviewed:

Wagtail – Annie Woodcock; What You Are Looking For Is In The Library – Michiko Aoyama; Headshot – Rita Bullwinkel; The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller; Circe – Madeline Miller; It Ends With Us – Colleen Hoover; Milk Blood Heat – Dantiel W. Moniz; Weyward – Emilia Hart; Elsewhere –  Gabrielle Zevin; Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin; Cleopatra and Frankenstein – Coco Mellors; The Bay – L J Ross; I am Homeless if this is not my Home – Lorrie Moore; A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J Maas; The Skeleton Key – Erin Kelly;

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Sarah Pritchard

Preferred Genres:
All Genres

About Sarah Pritchard:

Booked Reviewed:

Wagtail – Annie Woodcock; Christmas at the Little Village Bakery – Tilly Tennant; Christmas at Lilac Cottage – Holly Martin; Bella’s Christmas Bake Off – Sue Watson; One Wish in Manhattan – Mandy Baggot; A Cornish Christmas – Lily Graham; All I Want For Christmas – Jenny Hale; The Christmas Cake Café – Sue Watson; Nice Day for A White Wedding – A.L. Michael; The Way We Were – Sinead Moriarty; Me and My Sisters – Sinead Moriarty; Take A Chance on Me – Carol Wyer; Wicked Dix – Monica James; Dirty Dix – Monica James; Life Swap – Carol Wyer; Don’t Turn Around – Caroline Mitchell; The French for Christmas – Fiona Valpy; Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses – Jenny Hale; Saving Grapes – J.T. Lundy; The Kiss Before Midnight – Sophie Pembroke; Creature Comforts – Trisha Ashley; Playing With Fire – Kat Black; Secret Santa – Scarlett Bailey; Cover Story – Rachel Bailey; Humbugs and Heartstrings – Catherine Ferguson; Three Amazing Things About You – Jill Mansell; Etta and Otto and Russell and James – Emma Hooper; His Other Life – Beth Thomas; The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q – Sharon Maas;

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Tee

Preferred Genres:
All Genres

About Tee:

Books Reviewed:

Wagtail – Annie Woodcock

My name isn’t Joe- James Thomas

You made a fool of death with your beauty- Akwaeke Emezi

Rootless- Krystle Zara Appiah

The three of us- Ore Agbaje-Williams

You’ve Reached Sam- Dustin Theo

Primus- John T Leonard

The list- Yomi Adegoke

The wedding party- L.R. Jones

Liam’s proposal- Melinda R Morgan

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Tracey Handley

Preferred Genres:
All Genres

About Tracey Handley:

Books reviewed: Wagtail – Annie Woodcock;

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Vanessa Tanner

Preferred Genres:
All Genres - except Horror & Sci-Fi

About Vanessa Tanner:

Books reviewed: Wagtail – Annie Woodcock;

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