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Review Archive
Here you can find all of our past book reviews.
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Review of The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
The Borrowed Hills is one of John Murrays’ leading 2024 titles and I can absolutely see why - the writing is exceptional, visceral,...
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Review of The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
The idea of this book is so utterly fantastic I was sold in the first ten pages! Odile Ozanne lives in the valley of the Chemin des Pins....
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Review of England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee
It’s not often you can say ‘I haven’t read anything like this before’ but here it’s true. Nicolas Padamsee has painted a portrait of...
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Review of All Us Sinners by Katy Massey
Set in late 1970s Leeds, this debut crime novel takes place against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders. It’s the story of...
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Review of The Chain by Chimene Suleyman
If you read one book this month, this year, let it be this one. Strap in and join the chain. This is a debut memoir that had me gripped...
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Review of I’m F*cking Amazing by Anoushka Warden
As well as giving a voice to the chronically misunderstood condition of vaginismus, this debut is a raw, unflinching and genuinely...
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Review of The Dark Within Them by Isabelle Kenyon
A psychological thriller which tests the faith of matrimony and how far you would go to cover up a secret. Faith healer Amber meets Chad...
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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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