Title: The End of Everything Author: Megan Abbott Genre: Fiction Publisher: Picador Publication Date: 19th August 2011 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Lizzie and Evie are inseparable. They walk home from school together, sleep over at each other's houses, even flirt with boys together. And they tell each other everything. Or at least, that's what Lizzie … Continue reading The End of Everything by Megan Abbott – Blog Tour – Book Review
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False Witness by Karin Slaughter – Blog Tour Review
Title: False Witness Author: Karin Slaughter Genre: Thriller Publisher: Harper Collins Publication Date: 24th June 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: You thought no one saw you. You were wrong. Leigh and her sister Callie are not bad people β but one night, more than two decades ago, they did something terrible. And the result was … Continue reading False Witness by Karin Slaughter – Blog Tour Review
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami – Book Review
Title: Heaven Author: Mieko Kawakami Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Picador Publication Date: 10th June 2021 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, … Continue reading Heaven by Mieko Kawakami – Book Review
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam – Book Review
Title: The Startup Wife Author: Tahmima Anam Genre: Fiction Publisher: Canongate Publication Date: 3rd June 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, changes … Continue reading The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam – Book Review
Snowflake by Louise Nealon – Book Review
Title: Snowflake Author: Louise Nealon Genre: Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 10th May 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. … Continue reading Snowflake by Louise Nealon – Book Review
Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth – Blog Tour Review
Title: Heatstroke Author: Hazel Barkworth Genre: Fiction Publisher: Headline Review Publication Date: 27th May 2021 (paperback) Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: This summer burns with secrets... It is too hot to sleep. To work. To be questioned time and again by the police. At the beginning of a stifling, sultry summer, everything shifts irrevocably when Lily … Continue reading Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth – Blog Tour Review
The Pact by Sharon Bolton – Book Review
Title: The Pact Author: Sharon Bolton Genre: Thriller Publisher: Trapeze Publication Date: 27th May 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed. 18-year-old Megan takes the blame, … Continue reading The Pact by Sharon Bolton – Book Review
Self-Contained by Emma John – Blog Tour Review
Title: Self-Contained Author: Emma John Genre: Memoir Publisher: Cassell Publication Date: 6th May 2021 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: There is a piece of cod-wisdom regularly dispensed to single women: romance will arrive when you least expect it. I had assumed it would also make its own travel arrangements too. Emma John is in her 40s; … Continue reading Self-Contained by Emma John – Blog Tour Review
Coming Undone: A Memoir by Terri White – Book Review
Title: Coming Undone Author: Terri White Genre: Memoir Publisher: Canongate Publication Date: 15th April 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream - living in New York City, with a top job editing a major magazine. In reality, she was struggling with the trauma of an abusive … Continue reading Coming Undone: A Memoir by Terri White – Book Review
Books On The Hill – Kickstarter Project
Something a little bit different here on the blog today! I was made aware by the lovely Anne Cater at Random Things Blog Tours of this project by Books on the Hill and it sounds incredibly worthwhile so please have a little read all about it! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/both-opendyslexia/open-dyslexia/rewards
