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


Review of Central Places by Delia Cai
This is a fast-paced debut all about love, family, self-understanding and belonging. Recently-engaged couple Audrey and Ben visit...
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Review of When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
Written in lyrical prose with features of blackout poetry, this a debut that plays with form to tell the story of three orphaned siblings...
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Review of Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Sunburn is a coming of age, Sapphic romance which will leave you flushed and swooning. Basked within the stifling heat of Crossmore, a...
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Review of Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out by Ryan Love
Arthur is a 79-year-old grandfather who has been keeping a secret for as long as he can remember. He's gay, and he's ready to come out to...
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Review of Rosewater by Liv Little
With the recent sad news of gal-dem, the magazine that championed people of colour from marginalised genders, closing its doors, this...
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Review of None of This is Serious by Catherine Prasifka
None of This is Serious is set in Dublin and follows recent graduate Sophie as she navigates life after university. Sophie's friends all...
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Review of Starling by Sarah Jane Butler
Starling has lived her entire life in a van with her mother. Travelling from place to place, living off the land and rejecting modern...
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1 min read


Review of Can I Stray by Jenna Adams
This is a story told in 3 acts. In act one, we meet Brooke at 14 and Matt at 17. They are cast side by side as Romeo and Juliet and their...
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1 min read


Review of The Arena of the Unwell by Liam Konemann
i-D describes The Arena of the Unwell as "A sweaty, sticky mosh pit of a novel" and they got it exactly right. Liam Konnemann's debut is...
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Review of Send Nudes by Saba Sams
In this impressive debut, Sams has taken a magnifying glass to the nitty gritty of girlhood, and the result is a collection of stories...
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