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
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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
The Good Neighbours by Nina Allan – Social Tour
Title: The Good Neighbours Author: Nina Allan Genre: Fiction Publisher: Riverrun Publication Date: 10th June 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Cath is a photographer hoping to go freelance, working in a record shop to pay the rent and eking out her time with her manager Steve. He thinks her photography is detective work, drawing attention … Continue reading The Good Neighbours by Nina Allan – Social Tour
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
Darke Matter by Rick Gekoski – Blog Tour Review
Title: Darke Matter Author: Rick Gekoski Genre: Fiction Publisher: Constable Publication Date: 14th May 2020 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: James Darke is dreading the first family Christmas without his wife Suzy. Engulfed by grief, his grudging preparations are interrupted by a persistent knock at the door. Questions about the circumstances of his wife's death force … Continue reading Darke Matter by Rick Gekoski – Blog Tour Review
Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Make Me Smile!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Hello! I hope you are all having a nice week so far? … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Make Me Smile!
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