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
Category: Literary fiction
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
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu – Blog Tour Review
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
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!
Life With All The Books 