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


Review of Malc's Boy by Shaun Wilson
Written with refreshingly frank, darkly comic dialogue and Cumbrian dialect, I grew really attached to this story and would love to read more by this author, an impressive new voice in literature.
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Review of The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke
Are YOU an Agatha Christie fan? Are you getting The Traitors withdrawal symptoms?
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Review of Princeweaver by Elian J Morgan
Welsh folklore and a slow-burn queer fantasy romance—need we say more?
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Review of Unapologetic Love Story by Elle McNicoll
From the very first page, in the author’s note, Elle sets the tone with a bold, unapologetic response to stereotypes about autistic people
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Review of Thornby Manor by Stephanie Bramwell-Lawes
Surrounded by fog and perched high above the town, Briar begins to sense that not all is as it seems.
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Review of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
I do love when the rose-tined glasses slip from the world of perfect traditional life social media... Do you?
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Review of Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell
An immediately captivating feminist twist on a story of transformation, betrayal and identity.
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Review of Honey in the Wound by Jiyoung Han
2026 seems to be the year of sweeping epic novels about life under Japanese imperialism and this one is not to be missed.
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Review of Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
Josh Silver is an expert in complex and layered characters as you’re never quite sure who’s side you’re on and you can never predict what’s going to happen next.
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Review of Sanctuary by James Cleary
Greed and paranoia play out across the page, showing the worst of humanity.
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Review of Witch Queen Rising by Savannah Stephens
After ten years in a self-imposed isolation, Seraphine finds herself back at the home she ran from.
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Review of Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu
A deeply moving and evocative debut of young Black women navigating their education and freedom. A coming of age story for the ages! A triumph of a novel.
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Review of Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger
Ellie’s gone feral: she’s growing fur and going on late night rampages ending up on the other side of London without any recollection of what happened.
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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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