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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata
This was a lovely lighthearted & short read about a Japanese woman who has worked in the same convenience store for 18 years. She loves...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Sorrow and Bliss, by Meg Mason
A really beautiful story that is written so well I kept thinking I was reading a memoir! The stream of consciousness writing style was...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Away With the Penguins, by Hazel Prior
Veronica is an old woman who lives alone in her house in a peaceful, remote area in Scotland, and has no one to pass on her fortune to...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
This book is about a woman who decides that she no longer wants to live, and wakes up in a library. She is told by the librarian that all...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Evidence of the Affair, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This short story is told through the letters sent back and forth between a man and a woman who have found out that their partners are...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


The Frequency of Us, by Keith Stuart
This book is about an old man who is presumed to have dementia, and social services send a carer around to evaluate whether he needs...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The book starts with the narrator receiving a call from her sister, saying she has killed someone, and needs her help. It is not the...
Mar 16, 20231 min read
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