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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Elektra follows in the path of Ariadne and retells an Ancient Greek myth. This time the focus is on the battle of Troy and the women that it affected – some you may have heard of but others get their voice for the first time. Elektra by Jennifer Saint The House of Atreus is …
Hay-on-Wye is a top destination for bookworms all over the world. As I’ve always lived in Wales, I’ve been lucky enough to visit several times. Now I live even closer than ever and it’s just a short drive over, plus I am lucky enough to have book-loving friends who will come with me and understand …
The Giver of Stars is an inspirational tale of friendship, determination and above all the power of books! The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes Alice Wright doesn’t love her new American husband. Nor her domineering father-in-law or the judgmental townsfolk of Baileyville, Kentucky. Stifled and misunderstood, she yearns for escape and finds it …
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 …
