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


Review of Among Friends by Hal Ebbot
This is really clever literary fiction that looks at toxic masculinity alongside teenage girlhood in a viscerally realistic and quietly haunting way.
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Review of Awakened by Laura Elliot
This debut is a literary horror/sci-fi that will really get under your skin. Elliot does what all great writers of the genre do, she uses real life to write fiction that confronts humanity’s horrors.
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Review of The Show Woman by Emma Cowing
The Show Woman is inspired by the life of a very real person...
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Review of The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs
The Retirement Plan is filled with twists, marriage bliss and unbliss and of course, humour which will have you falling in love with all of the characters.
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Review of Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
Aftertaste is a beautifully written contemporary fiction novel which touches upon the themes of love, loss and the memories that food can bring to the forefront of our minds.
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Review of The Tradwife’s Secret by Liane Child
We meet Madison March, a tradwife influencer with a huge following, a lovely family and the perfect life... or so it seems...
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Review of Serial Killer Games by Kate Posey
I would recommend it to fans of Sweetpea-style dark humour with a sprinkling of romance.
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Review of The Everyday and Far Away by Jacqueline Jones
Jacqueline has created a perfect, emotive, and brilliant novel with livable characters and real-life issues that I'll be thinking about for a long time! Gorgeous and unforgettable!
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Review of The Ladie Upstairs by Jessie Elland
From the mind of the iconic Emmerdale actress, comes one of the most original and captivating debuts I’ve read all year. Full of deliciously gross femgore and underpinnings of feminist folklore, The Ladie Upstairs is perfect for fans of weird literary fiction with plenty to sink your teeth into.
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Review of Cat Fight by Kit Conway
A domestic thriller for fans of Desperate Housewives...
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Review of The Quiet by Barnaby Martin
A silenced world. A child in danger. Barnaby Martin imagines a future wherein humanity has become nocturnal...
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Review of Pig by Matilde Pratesi
Vale and Clara’s friendship is toxic. Living together in London, Vale works at a bookshop and races home every evening to Clara who’s waiting for dinner to be cooked and to be bathed...
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Review of That time everything was on fire by Kerry Downes
A heart-warming and powerful novel on female friendship, fertility, dating and finding yourself in your thirties.
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Review of Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter
A striking and all consuming novel on race and class set within the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Review of The Boys by Leo Robson
An astutely sharp and observant story, The Boys has the energy of a Sally Rooney novel met with the vibrancy of London, reminiscent of Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna.
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Review of Gunk by Saba Sams
The debut novel from Saba Sams, the author of the short story collection Send Nudes...
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Review of Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
I adored this read. From cover to cover, I could not put it down. If you lap up Irish fiction in the same way, this is an unmissable debut.
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Review of Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
With lyrical, observational style prose that drew me in from the first page, this is a short debut that packs a punch.
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Review of Overspill by Charlotte Paradise
Sara is 25 and has never used a tampon without having a panic attack and when she starts dating Miles, its not long before her struggles around sex come to the fore.
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Review of Mere by Danielle Giles
A dark story set in the dark ages, perfect for fans of folk tales.
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1 min read
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