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


Review of Kill Story by J. D. Maduro
A cutting workplace thriller on toxic work relationships and what happens when you believe your workplace has become a crime scene.
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1 min read


The Bronx as Literary Inspiration: Alejandro Heredia on their debut novel, LOCA
A friend asked me recently, “how does it feel to write about a version of the city that doesn’t exist anymore?”
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Review of A Healthy Appetite by Katie Huttlestone
I couldn’t tell where it was going to go; the ending was spectacularly hair raising, my teeth on edge.
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An Inconvenient Truth by Lorna Elcock, Author of The Windhover
Perhaps, though, it shouldn’t have done. A writer is a reader first, after all, and books, their existence, have been a major part of my life.
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Review of To The Moon And Back by Eliana Ramage
Nothing is overdone or overwritten and the emotions that steadily grow from page one fill each chapter with an undercurrent that makes you want to keep reading the prose forever.
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1 min read


Review of Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
Sara is not your typical ISIS bride. For one, she’s smuggled dairy milk and gummy bears with her across the border...
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1 min read


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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1 min read


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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1 min read


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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1 min read


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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1 min read


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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1 min read


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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2 min read


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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1 min read


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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2 min read


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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1 min read


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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1 min read


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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1 min read


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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1 min read
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