Two things that won’t shock anyone. 1. I miss travelling and holidays. 2. I think Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. As such, I recently picked up The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris which has been...
Category: Book Reviews
Luster seemed to be the book on everyone’s lips at the start of this year. My grand plans had been to look away from all the noise of new books and focus on the ones that I have outstanding to read. Within I’ll say a few...
I was really lucky and received some beautiful books as presents at Christmas time, including Hamnet. If you’re on bookstagram you couldn’t move for seeing this book last year. It seems like Hamnet was universally applauded, which is cemented by the fact that it won the...
Hands up who has a pile of reviews to write that’s almost as big as their pile of books waiting to be read? Me too, my friends, me too. No time like the present then! First up is Slack-Tide, a slim but powerful book I...
Heartstopper (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) by Alice Oseman
posted by: Megan
October 18, 2020
I wrote very recently on here that if you’re going to buy Heartstopper, you have to get all three available volumes at once. If not you will be like me, devour the first in one sitting and be kicking yourself that you have wait another...
Oh hey, it’s just me, the last person on earth to read The Flatshare! Or so it seems – this book is basically Bookstagram Famous. When I started my account earlier this year I saw it all over my feed so I thought I’d add...
I did what we say we won’t do and I chose a book based solely on its cover. I mean, look at it – do you blame me? When I was browsing the tables in Storysmith, the scrumptiously vibrant cover of Supper Club stood out...
It goes without saying that 2020 is a year that will go down in history. There will be oh-so-many books written about. Memoirs, fiction and studies on the political, social and economic effect that it’s had on the world. I for one didn’t think I...
Let’s be honest, it doesn’t matter how many times you hear the saying, sometimes you’re going to choose a book based on its cover. That’s exactly what happened when I stumbled across Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker during a late-night online shopping trip....
The other day, I was writing a post when I realised that I hadn’t reviewed any Nora Ephron books. That is something that I have to fix immediately. Like I have said elsewhere, I became a fan of Nora Ephron before I even knew it....