Book reviews, recommendations and literary life.
Book reviews, recommendations and literary life.
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 …
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 on my bookshelf for around a year now. I have …
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 days of scrolling on Instagram, I’d ordered Luster. Oops. BUY ON …
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 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction award. With such strong recommendations …
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 read at the tail end of last year. I picked …
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 second before reading the next. Thankfully my lovely boyfriend took …
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 my ten pence to the conversation too! My mum lent …
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 a mile. I was intrigued by the blurb too. It …
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 was ready to read about lockdown yet. It felt too …
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. (And you thought I didn’t know how to live.) Knowing …
