Title: Bitter Sweet Author: Hattie Williams Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publisher: Orion Publication Date: 3rd July 2025 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Review: First off, I must say that Bitter Sweet has one of my favourite covers of the year - utterly gorgeous. Happily, I can confirm that the book itself is just as excellent inside as it … Continue reading Bitter Sweet by Hattie Williams – Blog Tour Review
Category: Literary fiction
Junction of Earth and Sky by Susan Buttenwieser – Blog Tour Review
Title: Junction of Earth and Sky Author: Susan Buttenwieser Genre: Historical/Literary Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 1st August 2024 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: Coming of age in 1940s England, Alice's life is thrown into chaos under the shadow of the war. Forced to let go of her hopes and dreams, she finds herself uprooted … Continue reading Junction of Earth and Sky by Susan Buttenwieser – Blog Tour Review
Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor – Blog Tour Review
Title: Hold Back the Night Author: Jessica Moor Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 9th May 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Book Summary: From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delving into one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy and the heart-breaking … Continue reading Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor – Blog Tour Review
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker – Book Review
Title: The Women of Troy Author: Pat Barker Genre: Mythology, Literary Fiction Publisher: Penguin Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by … Continue reading The Women of Troy by Pat Barker – Book Review
The Divorcées by Rowan Beaird – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Divorcées Author: Rowan Beaird Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 28th March 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds … Continue reading The Divorcées by Rowan Beaird – Blog Tour Review
Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier, translated by Polly Mackintosh – Blog Tour Review
Title: Clara Reads Proust Author: Stéphane Carlier Translator: Polly Mackintosh Genre: Fiction Publisher: Gallic Books Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, peppered with a cast of quirky characters and a unique heroine. Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French … Continue reading Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier, translated by Polly Mackintosh – Blog Tour Review
The Guests by Agnes Ravatn – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Guests Author: Agnes Ravatn Genre: Suspense/Literary Fiction Publisher: Orenda Publication Date: 18th January 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Book Summary: It started with a lie… Married couple Karin and Kai are looking for a pleasant escape from their busy lives, and reluctantly accept an offer to stay in a luxurious holiday home in the … Continue reading The Guests by Agnes Ravatn – Blog Tour Review
In Memoriam by Alice Winn – Book Review
Title: In Memoriam Author: Alice Finn Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Viking Publication Date: 9th March 2023 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Book Summary: In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic … Continue reading In Memoriam by Alice Winn – Book Review
You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza – Book Review
Title: You Were Always Mine Authors: Christine Pride and Jo Piazza Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publisher: HQ Publication Date: 20th July 2023 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Is the truest family the one we’re born into, or the one we make for ourselves? Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for everything she has – her marriage, a stable job … Continue reading You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza – Book Review
Penance by Eliza Clark – Book Review
Title: Penance Author: Eliza Clark Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Faber & Faber Publication Date: 6th July 2023 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes?Did you see the pictures of the … Continue reading Penance by Eliza Clark – Book Review
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