Title: The Funeral Cryer Author: Wenyan Lu Genre: Fiction Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publication Date: 4th May 2023 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: An Yu's Braised Pork meets Flaubert's Madame Bovary in this unforgettable, tragi-comic tale of one woman's mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China.The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: … Continue reading The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu – Blog Tour Review
Category: Literary fiction
My Favourite Books of 2022!
I have read so many books that I loved this year and of the 133 that I have read, I have finally managed to narrow it down to a top 25! So, numbers 25-6 are in no particular order but I did manage to pick a top 5 after much deliberation! I wholeheartedly recommend every … Continue reading My Favourite Books of 2022!
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart – Book Review
Title: Young Mungo Author: Douglas Stuart Genre: Fiction Publisher: Picador Publication Date: 14th April 2022 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles … Continue reading Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart – Book Review
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson – Blog Tour Review
Title: Shrines of Gaiety Author: Kate Atkinson Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Doubleday Publication Date: 27th September 2022 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, … Continue reading Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson – Blog Tour Review
All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien – Blog Tour Review
Title: All That’s Left Unsaid Author: Tracey Lien Genre: Fiction Publisher: HQ Publication Date: 15th September 2022 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: 1996 – Cabramatta, Sydney ‘Just let him go.’ Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny … Continue reading All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien – Blog Tour Review
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer – Book Review
Title: Isaac and the Egg Author: Bobby Palmer Genre: Fiction Publisher: Headline Publication Date: 18th August 2022 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Isaac stands alone on a bridge and screams. Something screams back. And that, like everything which follows, is unforgettable. This is a book about a lot of things - grief, hope, friendship, love. It's … Continue reading Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer – Book Review
Utopia by Heidi Sopinka – Book Review
Title: Utopia Author: Heidi Sopinka Genre: Fiction Publisher: Scribe Publication Date: 11th August 2022 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: It’s okay for men to make bad art. There’s no price on their head for doing it … Nothing for men is pre-determined, except their chance at great success. Los Angeles, 1978. When Romy, a gifted young … Continue reading Utopia by Heidi Sopinka – Book Review
Girls They Write Songs About by Carlene Bauer – Book Review
Title: Girls They Write Songs About Author: Carlene Bauer Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Magpie Publication Date: 7th July 2022 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: Rose and Charlotte arrive in 1990s New York, fresh out of university and fizzing with ambition. When they end up working at the same music magazine, Charlotte – earnest, bookish – is wary of … Continue reading Girls They Write Songs About by Carlene Bauer – Book Review
More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez – Blog Tour Review
Title: More Than You’ll Ever Know Author: Katie Gutierrez Genre: Fiction / Psychological Thriller Publisher: Penguin Michael Joseph Publication Date: 7th July 2022 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: Lore Rivera was married to two men at once, until on a baking hot day in 1986, one of them found out and shot the other. A secret … Continue reading More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez – Blog Tour Review
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas – Book Review
Title: Vladimir Author: Julia May Jonas Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Picador Publication Date: 26th May 2022 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me.And so we meet our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose husband, a charismatic professor at … Continue reading Vladimir by Julia May Jonas – Book Review
Life With All The Books 