Review: ‘The Secret Commonwealth’ – Philip Pullman 2019
The fantasy series on everyone’s lips in 2019 is The Book of Dust, and I’m delighted to share a guest review of the latest installment – The S...
The Flatshare – Author Interview with Beth O’Leary
Funny, sweet and oh so very readable! If you follow me on Instagram you might have seen me gushing about The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary. After falling head...
How I Finished 7 Book Series in 2018
At the beginning of the year I made some reading resolutions, one of them was to focus my reading on finishing series that I had begun. I am a serial offender o...
Best Books of 2018
Choosing the best books of the year is always a difficult task, but this year was especially difficult. Not only were there some really incredible titles publis...
30 Books to Read Before 30
I recently celebrated my 29th birthday, and as birthdays often do it prompted me to think about the year ahead and what I would like to achieve. One thing was f...
Review: ‘The Bell Jar’ – Sylvia Plath 1963
My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Bell Jar surprised me, it was so cutting, so wise, and so sad. The observations about people and about society are so razor sharp, m...
Review: ‘Dendera’- Yuya Sato 2009
My rating: 4 of 5 stars A strange, dark exploration of old-age, death, and womanhood. “Of course there are no men! Why the hell would I want to save any m...
Review: ‘The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea’- Yukio Mishima
My rating: 2.5 of 5 stars A disturbing tale of youth corrupted. Mishima crafted a vivid portrait of post-war Japan and mind of a child growing up in the shadow ...
Review: ‘This One Summer’ – Mariko & Jillian Tamaki 2014
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars A slice-of-life graphic novel that perfectly captures the frustrations and small anxieties of early teen life. The illustrations are g...
Guest review: ‘The Book of Dust’ – Philip Pullman 2017
My rating: 3 of 5 stars I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read a couple of years ago that Philip Pullman would be continuing Lyra and Pan’s story wi...