top of page
Search


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 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


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


The Daisy Chain, by Al Campbell
The book is set in England in 1771 and is a historical fiction tale about botany, art, scientific discovery, exploration, trade and the...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


The Confessions of Frannie Langton, by Sara Collins
A historical fiction (and kind of a murder mystery) book set in the 1800s about a girl called Frannie who is born on a cane plantation in...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


The Christie Affair, by Nine De Gramont
This book is a re-imagining of the time when Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days and never explained what happened. It is told from...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


A Terrible Kindness, by Jo Browning Wroe
In October 1966, a landslide at a coal mine in Aberfan in Wales crushed a row of houses and a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults....
Mar 16, 20231 min read


A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting, by Sophie Irwin
I think this book will be perfect for fans of Jane Austen - it’s a cosy and comforting story about a young woman in the late 1800s who is...
Mar 16, 20232 min read


The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Absolutely blown away by this book, I read it over 6 months ago but continue to think about it a lot. Yes it did break my heart but it’s...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Babel, by R.F. Kuang
Set in an alternative universe in 1800s Oxford, a young Cantonese orphan is taken back to England with a man who gives him an education....
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Little, by Edward Carey
I was blown away by this book, I think about it all the time, and cannot recommend it enough for people who enjoy historical fiction!...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


The Colony, by Audrey Magee
A quietly powerful book about the residents on a tiny rural Irish island in 1979 where two foreigners come to stay over the summer (an...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan
I loved everything about this book, and I will re-read it when I need a beautiful and hopeful story - it is such a gentle, quiet, tender...
Mar 16, 20231 min read


Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus
I tried so many times to love this book, because the concept of this sounded so up my street, but I ended up DNFing at about 50% of the...
Mar 16, 20232 min read


Weyward, by Emilia Hart
This book features 3 different POVs spanning five centuries: a woman in the 1600s on trial for witchcraft, a young girl in the 1900s who...
Mar 15, 20231 min read


The Lie Tree, by Frances Hardinge
This is a young adult gothic fantasy fiction set in the Victorian age about a young girl called Faith who is brave, curious, incredibly...
Nov 9, 20211 min read


The Silent Companions, by Laura Purcell
This is the best scariest ghost story I have read so far! It is set in the 1800s and is a gothic, dark horror that hooked me from the...
Nov 9, 20211 min read


The Coffin Path, by Katherine Clements
This book was the perfect scary Halloween ghost/horror story! It is set in the remote Yorkshire Moors in the 1600s, and it is about sheep...
Nov 9, 20211 min read
bottom of page
.jpg)