Monty's Book Reviews

14/08/2025

Book Recommendation - The Heretic Cypher by Murray Bailey. The Kindle edition is currently FREE on Amazon for a couple of days

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07/08/2025

With the movie prop auction taking place today including Darth Vader's original light saber it inspired this short story

There was a palpable tension in the room as the auctioneer stepped up to his platform. He banged his gavel down onto the wooden mat and the whispers around the place died away. This was the lot tha…

31/07/2025

Give these guys a follow - they do loads for families like ours who are affected by Myotonic Dystrophy

We have reached 1500 followers on our public Cure DM page. Thanks to everyone for continuing to raise awareness 💚💚

31/07/2025

Give these guys a follow - they do loads for families (like ours) who are affected by Myotonic Dystrophy

We have reached 1500 followers on our public Cure DM page. Thanks to everyone for continuing to raise awareness 💚💚

31/07/2025

The final part of my travels to Chester Zoo with the CureDM charity team.

It’s Sunday morning and I’ve had another night with virtually no sleep. I spent most of the night listening to an audio book and sweating. We went down for breakfast but after everythin…

30/07/2025

Part Two of our weekend trip to Chester Zoo

I’m woken up at 6.30am when Sam decides it is time to get up and watch TV. I say ‘woken up’ but in truth I’ve barely had any sleep. A combination of the heat and my bladder&…

30/07/2025

At last, the day has finally come. We booked our hotel months ago and since than we've had to endure a major heatwave (hope it is a tiny bit cooler whilst we are away) and I've been made redundant from my job of 13 years. At least the new series of Only Connect is back so it's not all bad news. As the childhood song goes "We're all going to the zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, we're all going to the zoo tomorrow, we can stay all day" except we've got a whole…...

At last, the day has finally come. We booked our hotel months ago and since than we’ve had to endure a major heatwave (hope it is a tiny bit cooler whilst we are away) and I’ve been mad…

17/07/2025

GirlieOnTheEdge - Six Sentence Stories - Writing Prompt Word - Row “Hi Mum, I just popped round to see you and Dad but you’re out, are you back any time soon.” “It’s our wedding anniversary and we’re in Hyde Park as it’s where we first met.” “Hope you’re having a great time, what are you doing in the park? “We’re having a row”...

GirlieOnTheEdge – Six Sentence Stories – Writing Prompt Word – Row “Hi Mum, I just popped round to see you and Dad but you’re out, are you back any time soon.” “It’s our wedding a…

17/07/2025

Only Murders In My Mind - Writing Prompt 64 (Image) It all started because I forgot to put my mobile phone on charge when I went to bed last night. I took my usual sleeping pill, stuck on the latest podcast from those guys at 'Only Murders In My Mind' and then sank into the kind of deep sleep that I find only achievable via chemical assistance....

Only Murders In My Mind – Writing Prompt 64 (Image) It all started because I forgot to put my mobile phone on charge when I went to bed last night. I took my usual sleeping pill, stuck on the…

17/07/2025

Only Murders in My Mind - Writing Prompt 67 (Image) 12-07-25 Ever since she was little she'd loved them, everything about them. Their smells, their feel and their varied colours, shapes and sizes. It was inevitable that she'd find a job related to them but we all thought that she'd set up a local florist shop rather than sign on as the ship's botanist on a ten year exploratory mission to the newly discovered planetoid in our neighbouring solar system....

Only Murders in My Mind – Writing Prompt 67 (Image) 12-07-25 Ever since she was little she’d loved them, everything about them. Their smells, their feel and their varied colours, shapes…

16/07/2025

The Heretic CypherEgyptian Stones - Book 15 Stars Genre : Mystery, Adventure, ThrillerPages : 319 (Kindle Edition) Publisher's Blurb When Egyptologist Alex MacLure’s friend and mentor dies he’s stunned to discover she’s left a message—hidden, encoded, and meant only for him. With a mysterious artifact and a trail of cryptic symbols, Alex is thrust into a deadly race against time....

The Heretic CypherEgyptian Stones – Book 15 Stars Genre : Mystery, Adventure, ThrillerPages : 319 (Kindle Edition) Publisher’s Blurb When Egyptologist Alex MacLure’s friend and mentor d…

16/07/2025

It's time for the blog tour for Murray Bailey's excellent thriller The Heretic Cypher. Read my thoughts here.
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