Book reviews, recommendations and literary life.
Book reviews, recommendations and literary life.
Hi, I’m Megan, the founder of Behind Her Books, bookseller, writer and book lover based in Abergavenny, Wales. Reading has been a part of my life since I can remember and my book collection is starting to take over my house. I also study part-time for a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, which …
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Today is my bookseller birthday! I have now worked at Book-ish for one year and it is truly the happiest I’ve ever been in a job. I feel so lucky to not only have a job that surrounds me with books and other readers but to also work with amazing people that I now count …
The Key in the Lock is a simmering Gothic mystery, full of secrets, deception and ghosts from the past. The Key in the Lock by Beth Underdown I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unfurling out of an upper window and a hectic orange light cascading across the terrace. By day, Ivy …
It’s been a while since I pulled together a reading list, so where better to start than with 22 books to read in 2022. (Hands up if you’re singing this to the Taylor Swift tune?!) There are SO many exciting books coming out in 2022 it was hard to whittle it down, so I stuck …
Five Tuesdays in Winter is an intimate, nuanced and memorable collection of short stories. Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King For the first time ever, Lily King collects ten of her finest short stories, opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike. Told in the intimate voices of unique and …
To Paradise is a bold, sweeping novel that traverses three centuries and three imagined Americas, held together by the unified themes of love, loss and what it means to find utopia. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may …
Lunar Living is both magical and practical, teaching you how to work with the cycle of the moon to better understand yourself and reclaim ownership of your life. Lunar Living by Kirsty Gallagher Are there certain days when you feel overly emotional for no apparent reason? Do you have days when you feel exhausted, close …
I picked up The Binding on an innocent visit to the local Oxfam bookshop. I wasn’t intending to buy anything of course, but I tripped and fell, which led to me leaving with this and probably some others. But let’s not dwell on that, or why I am buying more books when I already work in …
I was lucky enough to get a proof copy of Cecily before it came out in July. My first thoughts were how beautiful the cover is! It’s extremely striking and is so much more modern than lots of other historical fictions novels. That aside, I was excited to read it. I’d already heard good things …
Something I’ve really got into lately is signing up for newsletters. There’s something so glorious about them landing into your inbox, a gleaming light amongst the boring emails from your bank or the junk ones telling you you’ve won $1,000,000!!! (I have blocked these so many times, but damn they are persistent.) Anyway, I thought …
Every month when it’s time to pen this post, I open up Goodreads to remind myself of what I actually read. This month when April Wrap Up time came around, I was genuinely shocked to find that I’d read seven books. Seven! Blimey. That explains why I haven’t done much else really… It’s been a …
