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Review Archive
Here you can find all of our past book reviews.
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Review of Fledging by Rose Diell
Lia lays an egg and is struggling to come to terms with how her body is able to birth something so bizarre...
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Review of Alter Ego by Helen Heckety
Helen Heckety writes beautifully on friendship but also on the frustrations in the minutiae of everyday disabled life.
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Review of Daughters of the Nile by Zahra Barri
This strong debut explores the lives of a family of women spanning three generations...
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Review of Takeout Sushi by Christopher Green
This debut is a collection of illustrated slice-of-life short stories mostly set in Japan. This was a really refreshing read for me as I...
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Review of Cross the Line by Simone Soltani
A spicy (and macaron-sweet) brother’s-best-friend romance WITH Formula 1 incorporated?! Yes PLEASE! Cross the Line is the sit in the back...
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Review of The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
Sometimes finding your place in the world is the greatest puzzle of all... The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers will be one of the most...
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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 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 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 Piglet by Lottie Hazell
We never know the real name of our protagonist in this story, we know her only by a cruel and unshakeable childhood nickname - ‘Piglet’....
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Review of The Liberators by E.J. Koh
This book presents an intergenerational family story at key points in Korean history. We initially meet young couple Insuk and Sungho,...
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Review of Happy by Celina Baljeet Basra
Happy Singh Soni is an idealist. Living up to his name, he wades through his own little world, cheerful and assured that his dream of...
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Review of Sad Girl Novel by Pip Finkemeyer
We all love a novel about a lost twenty-something trying desperately to be a writer, but is it becoming a tired trope? Not here. Promise....
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Review of Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Shark Heart is a gorgeously spellbinding novel that will have you swept away within the crashing waves of a truly well-constructed...
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Review of The Old Haunts by Allan Radcliffe
Allan Radcliffe is a celebrated journalist and has written award-winning short stories, so I was very much looking forward to his debut...
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Review of Lazy City by Rachel Connolly
Rachel Connolly is another debut writer springing out of the absolutely heaving Irish literary scene (probably my favourite literary...
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Review of Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare
For fans of Luster, Queenie and Insatiable, comes a debut with equally sexy and chaotic vibes. Sugar, Baby is a novel that follows Agnes...
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Review of Queuing for the Queen by Sweta Rana
Queuing for the Queen is set across twenty four hours, with a cast of characters who all meet while waiting in the line to show their...
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Review of Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman
Fans of We Were Liars will absolutely love Ella Berman's debut novel, Before We Were Innocent. It's a perfect-for-summer unputdownable...
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Review of The Revels by Stacey Thomas
The Revels is set in 1645, a time where the fear of witchcraft and the sport of witch-hunting was at its peak after King James I became...
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