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The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Classics First Published: 1993 Length: 250 pages Setting: Michigan I enjoyed this book a lot more than I...
Apr 25, 20231 min read


You made a fool of death with your beauty - by Akwaeke Emezi
Genre: Romance, Fiction, LGBT, Adult fiction First published: 2022 Length: 288 pages Setting: New York City and an unnamed tropical...
Apr 25, 20231 min read


Burying Eva Flores, by Jennifer Alsever
Genre: Young adult, crime fiction, thriller, paranormal First published: 2022 Length: 388 pages Setting: Town of Paonia in Colorado This...
Apr 25, 20231 min read


Sweet Bean Paste, by Durian Sukegawa
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Asian Literature First Published: 2013 Length: 213 Publication Language: Japanese Setting: Tokyo A...
Apr 25, 20231 min read


Daisy Darker, by Alice Feeney
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense First published: 2022 Length: 352 pages Setting: a remote house on a causeway in Cornwall, UK A great...
Apr 25, 20231 min read


Kim JiYoung, Born 1982, by Cho Nam-Joo
Genre: Fiction, Feminism, Contemporary, Asian Literature First published: 2016, first published in English in 2020 Length: 163 pages...
Apr 25, 20231 min read


The Trees, by Percival Everett
Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Horror, Crime First Published: 2021 Length: 309 pages Setting: Mississippi Such an incredible book - don’t want...
Mar 27, 20231 min read


Really Good, Actually, by Monica Heisey - a spoiler-free review
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Humor First Published: 2023 Length: 384 pages Setting: Canada I really enjoyed this book - I’ve...
Mar 21, 20231 min read


The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I personally thought that this book deserves every bit of hype it gets! Whilst reading, I had to constantly remind myself that I was...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Young Mungo, by Douglas Stuart
Wow this was an emotional, distressing and beautiful book. Set in the working class housing estates in Glasgow in super homophobic,...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


The Maid, by Nita Prose
This was such an enjoyable, funny, wholesome murder mystery told from the perspective of a young maid at a hotel who discovers a dead...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


No Exit, by Taylor Adams
This book is about a woman who was trying to travel home for Christmas to see her terminally ill mother, when she is caught in a...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


The Absolute Book, by Elizabeth Knox
This book is a mixture of so many genres: it is a fantasy that is set within our world and others, with elements of mythology, mystery,...
Mar 16, 20232 min read


Bunny, by Mona Awad
Imagine if Mean Girls was a horror/supernatural novel - this is kind of how I imagine it would be. I really, really enjoyed it, and had...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
This book tells the incredible story of the lives of the wife and children of Shakespeare and how their lives were changed by the plague....
Mar 16, 20231 min read


The Devil and the Dark Water, by Stuart Turton
This book was so different to anything I had read before - imagine a Sherlock Holmes detective story crossed with all the action and...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


How to Kill Your Family, by Bella Mackie
I always love books with unconventional narrators and this certainly didn’t disappoint. It is about a girl who is in prison for a crime...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


The Wolf of Baghdad, by Carol Isaacs
I cannot recommend this graphic novel / memoir enough! It is about the author reflecting on her family’s history in Iraq, where her...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Yinka, where is your husband? By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
A feel-good, empowering and interesting romance story about Yinka - a British born Nigerian Christian in her 30s, who is constantly asked...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Big Girl Small Town, by Michelle Gallen
For anyone who loves Derry Girls you really should read this! It’s very funny and quirky, set in Northern Ireland in the 2000s. It is...
Mar 16, 20231 min read
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