I usually go out of my way to make my book reviews fair and balanced, acknowledging their strengths even when I didn’t personally love them—but you know what? I really, really hated Watching Edie. There’s no way […]
The Summer That Melted Everything is nothing like I imagined. Looking in turn at the title, the cover and the blurb, I might have guessed YA love story, fantasy, magical realism. The Summer That Melted Everything is […]
As part of the biannual bibliothon challenge at the beginning of this month, I read Catherine Banner’s beautiful novel The House at the Edge of Night. You can find my full review by clicking here, but in short: I […]
I read The House at the Edge of Night while overlooking the sea off a beautiful Greek island, so I know I’m biased—but I think that even had I read this book in my dingy London flat, […]
When I started reading Marcia A. Zug’s intro to Buying a Bride, in which she states her intentions to prove the positive aspects of mail-order marriage, I was pretty sceptical. Amazingly, by the end of the book, Zug […]
If you’ve managed to make it this far without even hearing about The Girls, you must have been living underneath a rock (or, y’know, you just don’t obsessively follow book release news, you big weirdo)—because this […]
Before Hot Little Hands, I’d never made it to the end of a short story collection. It’s not that I don’t like short stories—there are a few I’ve adored—but I could never quite push myself to read […]
I read A Game for All the Family all in one go, right after having laser eye surgery which made reading words on a page fairly difficult—so that’s a testament to how gripping Sophie Hannah’s psychological thriller is. […]
If you’ve ever wanted to work in the TV industry, 25 Sense is the book for you. Lisa Henthorn’s debut novel will be out on 24th May, and it gives a great insight into what it’s […]
Jane Doe January is the compelling true story of Emily Winslow’s long search for justice after being attacked and raped when she was in college. Twenty years after the assault, her rapist was finally identified—and Winslow was thrown back into a […]
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