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Review Archive
Here you can find all of our past book reviews.


Review of Learning to Think by Tracy King
Having grown up in poverty surrounded by grief and anxiety, Tracy tells her story of how she and her family battled hardships graver than...
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Review of How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Frances always said that she’d be murdered. She was right! When a fortune teller warns seventeen-year-old Frances Adams that she will one...
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Review of Star Survivor by Lisa Brace
Four strangers. One Island. Reality TV gone wrong. Star Survivor is a fresh contemporary and commercial fiction novel, with a light yet...
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Review of My Name Was Eden by Eleanor Barker-White
Warning Readers will not be able to resist reading in one sitting! My Name Was Eden is a chilling psychological thriller that fans of...
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Review of Crow Moon by Suzy Aspley
At heart I’m definitely a thriller girly, so when a debut thriller slides across my bookshelf, I’m like a kid in a very chilling candy...
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Review of Dancing in the Shallows by Clare Reddaway
I devoured this book in a single sitting! Centred around Isla Wintergreen who suddenly moves to the Isle of Skye following the death of...
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Review of Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
This is probably my favourite debut so far this year! In this powerful novel we follow Cyrus Shams, a man trying to make sense of life...
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Review of The Lodgers by Holly Pester
What a strange and quirky piece of literary fiction. A woman with a particularly perceptive intellect moves into a flat opposite her...
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Review of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry then do we have the book for you! Jennie Godfrey’s heartwarming debut, The List of...
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Review of Ours by Phillip B. Williams
Spanning decades from the 1800s to as far as the late 1900s, Ours tells the story of the antebellum US from a different standpoint. At...
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Review of Pity by Andrew McMillan
Set in Barnsley, Pity tells the story of three generations of men and their relationship with the history of where they were born. We...
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Review of Remember, Remember by Elle Machray
Well, this 176 page novella packed one hell of a literary punch and I adored every single page of it! Remember, Remember transports us to...
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Review of Bear Season by Gemma Fairclough
Well, this 176 page novella packed one hell of a literary punch and I adored every single page of it! PhD student Jade Hunter has gone...
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Review of Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead by Jenny Hollander
The haunting memories of Scarlet Christmas are at the front of Charlotte Colbert’s mind as it edges towards the ten year anniversary of...
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Review of Anna O by Matthew Blake
Resignation syndrome is a hypothesized condition that induces a state of reduced consciousness and may occur during and/or after a...
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Review of Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
Dolly Alderton fans will love the debut novel from Madeleine Gray, especially if you adored Good Material! Green Dot follows Hera who is...
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Review of The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Set in Malaya during the Second World War, this novel follows the destruction and ruin of the country, narrating the atrocities of child...
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Review of Nothing Serious by Emma Medrano
This contemporary novels explores the connection between two women who feel like they have no one else to talk to. Nicki is in her...
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Review of The Beholders by Hester Musson
June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of the River Thames, suspected to be the beloved missing child of the widely...
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Review of Here in the Dark by Alexis Solowski
Here in the Dark by Alexis Solowski is a dark literary thriller which incorporates aspects of the theatre and death, entwined around each...
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