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


Review of A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan
A suspenseful and all-consuming summer thriller full of secrets and family drama!
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Review of Thirst Trap by Gráinne O'Hare
A blistering novel of female friendship, grief, sexuality and figuring it all out.
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Review of Among Friends by Hal Ebbot
This is really clever literary fiction that looks at toxic masculinity alongside teenage girlhood in a viscerally realistic and quietly haunting way.
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Review of Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
Aftertaste is a beautifully written contemporary fiction novel which touches upon the themes of love, loss and the memories that food can bring to the forefront of our minds.
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Review of The Everyday and Far Away by Jacqueline Jones
Jacqueline has created a perfect, emotive, and brilliant novel with livable characters and real-life issues that I'll be thinking about for a long time! Gorgeous and unforgettable!
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Review of The Ladie Upstairs by Jessie Elland
From the mind of the iconic Emmerdale actress, comes one of the most original and captivating debuts I’ve read all year. Full of deliciously gross femgore and underpinnings of feminist folklore, The Ladie Upstairs is perfect for fans of weird literary fiction with plenty to sink your teeth into.
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Review of Pig by Matilde Pratesi
Vale and Clara’s friendship is toxic. Living together in London, Vale works at a bookshop and races home every evening to Clara who’s waiting for dinner to be cooked and to be bathed...
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Review of That time everything was on fire by Kerry Downes
A heart-warming and powerful novel on female friendship, fertility, dating and finding yourself in your thirties.
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Review of Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter
A striking and all consuming novel on race and class set within the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Review of The Boys by Leo Robson
An astutely sharp and observant story, The Boys has the energy of a Sally Rooney novel met with the vibrancy of London, reminiscent of Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna.
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Review of Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
I adored this read. From cover to cover, I could not put it down. If you lap up Irish fiction in the same way, this is an unmissable debut.
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Review of Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
With lyrical, observational style prose that drew me in from the first page, this is a short debut that packs a punch.
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Review of Overspill by Charlotte Paradise
Sara is 25 and has never used a tampon without having a panic attack and when she starts dating Miles, its not long before her struggles around sex come to the fore.
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Review of Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh
At the age of seventeen where sexual experiences are like currency exchanged between the boys on the football field, John is trying to soak in all that’s there in his small Irish hometown before going away to college. It’s the summer before the rest of his life...
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Review of Ibis by Justin Haynes
I was engrossed in a time and place I haven’t read much about before and Justin Haynes was a wonderful writer to introduce me to it.
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Review of Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
Spanning seven decades, Homeseeking is perfect for fans of epic literary fiction.
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Review of Before We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya
A vulnerable debut and one that stuck with me long after the last page...
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Review of Blob: a love story by Maggie Su
A hilarious and witty debut, sure to make you smile and think ‘what the hell is going on?’
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Review of Ask Me Again by Clare Sestanovich
Eva and Jamie are friends. They live in New York. Times are changing.
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Review of The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji
Follow five women from three generations of a once wealthy and well-respected Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down...
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