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Here you can find all of our past book reviews plus articles, Q&As and author inspiration pieces.


Review of All Them Dogs by Djamel White
He was forced to flee to England for five years but now, Tony is back in town.
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Review of Lázár by Nelio Biedermann
This is a sweeping family-saga that charts the decline of Hungarian nobility from the start of the twentieth century to the Hungarian National Uprising of 1956.
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Review of Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
A gothic coming of age story on suppressed female desire in the early nineteen twenties and the controlling nature of old English boarding schools.
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Review of In Bloom by Liz Allen
An electric look into the lengths adolesent girls will go to for the promise of a bright future despite the dangers of a world which is out to get them.
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Review of Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hocchauser
A bold retelling of the beloved fairytale where the wicked stepmother is a woman with the best intentions for her daughters, battling the daily challenges of being a widower in a time where marriage means respectability and social standing is a cruel currency.
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Review of This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum
A fabulously gripping, twisty and tender thriller wrapped around a love story, one that you'll want to fly through, yet savour.
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Review of To The Moon And Back by Eliana Ramage
Nothing is overdone or overwritten and the emotions that steadily grow from page one fill each chapter with an undercurrent that makes you want to keep reading the prose forever.
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Review of Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall
It is an exploration into the paradox that is the tragedy that you may never be more than you are, and yet you must always strive to become more than you ever will be.
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Review of 200 Monas by Jan Saenz
With 200 Monas I was promised an unhinged and outrageous (in the best way) and readers, Jan Saenz delivered on every single expectation!
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Review of The Brides by Charlotte Cross
2026 is definitely the year of perfectly plotted and beautifully written retellings of Gothic fiction.
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Review of A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage by M.K. Oliver
It’s time to meet your next favourite (and murderous) heroine: Lalla Rook. You’re going to LOVE HER!
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Review of Love and Other Brain Experiments by Hannah Brohm
Are you a fan of rivals to lovers in a science lab setting? Then Love and Other Brain Experiments is the STEM rom-com to add to your TBR this month.
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Review of I'll Be the Monster by Sean Gilbert
I’ll be the Monster is a literary thriller from a unique new voice, which taps into the essence of Donna Tartt and elitism...
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Review of A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang
From the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and through the Cultural Revolution to the present day, Yang explores the legacy of colonialism through three generations.
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Review of Gloria Don't Speak by Lucy Apps
Inspired by the author’s volunteer work, this is an urgent, unique and empathetic debut centering the experiences of those with learning disabilities, a community of people we seldom see represented in literature.
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Review of Good People by Patmeena Sabit
A gripping literary crime novel where snippets of interviews, articles and reports piece together what happened leading up to and after the mysterious death of Afghan American teenager Zorah Sharaf.
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Review of Noon by Zain Rishi
A moving collection of poems from an exciting new talent on home, identity and sexuality.
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Review of What I Told My Friends by Alice Leigh
With twists and turns that lead to an ending that feels inescapable, and as though it had been clear as day upon the page from the very beginning, you’re brought on a journey that forces you to question every person who sets foot upon the page as you work to uncover the deepest truths of High Hill Manor, and the students that went there.
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Review of Murder Bimbo by Rebecca Novak
When a 32-year-old sex worker kills an extremist politician, Meat Neck, her life is turned completely upside down and she believes that the only person who can save her from this injustice is host of the feminist podcast, Justice for Bimbo.
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Review of Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity
Whether you’re already utterly in love with Gothic historical fiction or you haven’t yet found the book to pique your interest in the genre, Weavingshaw is the one to convert you.
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