Category: Fiction

  I enjoy a good thriller. I like intrigue, twists, surprises, clever narrators and anything that’s unexpected. And boy, did this book ever deliver. On all counts. I didn’t expect that much from this book going in – I’d heard good things, but nothing that hinted at it being a huge departure from any other READ MORE

  I read this book for a book club hosted by Allison Paiges on Patreon. But I had already heard of it, because she had raved about it at great length earlier in the year, saying it was one of her all time favourite books (she had even gotten a tattoo of the wolf girl READ MORE

  I committed the cardinal readers’ sin with this one – I watched the show before reading the book. I love Toni Collette, and I thought she did such a fantastic job that I wanted more, which is when I searched out the book from my library and devoured it. This story starts dramatically with READ MORE

  I’ve been hearing Emily Henry’s name all over the internet for a while now. I don’t normally go for romance novels, as any of you who have been around here for a while know, but every once in a while I decide to dip a toe in. Normally it gets nibbled by a hungry READ MORE

  If you haven’t read this book, what would you expect it to be about? If you have read it, what were you looking for when you picked it up? Based on the title, I thought it would be about a group of perhaps ladylike Southern women who have a book club where they drink READ MORE

  Now that I’ve started the Renée Ballard series, it feels easy to continue. This is the second book in the series, and also crosses over into the Harry Bosch series as well. In this one, though, Bosch actually appears. One highlight is that Titus Welliver – the actor who plays Bosch – narrates the READ MORE

  I love simple stories about normal people doing normal things that somehow capture an essential element of what it means to be human. Books like this. This is such a quiet book about a quiet man called Ove just trying to be left alone. Ove is an older gentleman. He has recently lost his READ MORE

  I don’t know how, but somehow I managed to pick up several graphic novels (after not having read any for years) that were just so impressive, poignant and important. This was, obviously, one of those books. This is the graphic novel version of a novel by the same name written by Jason Reynolds. It’s READ MORE

  The second book in the Out of the Hitler Time series, this book jumps forward in time from where When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit left off. In this book the family are now living in a boarding house in London during the early days of the Blitz. Things are tough – not just because READ MORE

  If you are the type of reader who can withstand tragedy and pain as long as it’s presented in beautiful prose and has characters whose pain you will feel acutely, then this is the book for you. Because man, does it ever serve up the tragedy with both hands. The story begins with Tom, READ MORE

  I picked this book up because I watched one of Lauren and the Books‘ videos (I’d link the actual video but it was months ago when I watched it and I don’t remember which one) in which her partner, David, reads this whole book in a weekend, and he doesn’t normally read that much. READ MORE

  When it comes to police procedural thrillers, Michael Connelly pretty much has the genre on lock. Thanks to his wildly successful Harry Bosch series (which was made into a TV series starring Titus Welliver), and fast pace at which he releases new books, his fans are often devoted ones. First published in 2017, The READ MORE

  This book was a big surprise to me. It turned out to be exactly what I wished The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Aged 81 would be. Also what I hoped The Unlikely Pilgrimmage of Harold Fry would feel like. It’s a simple story at the outset – it’s the story of Arthur READ MORE

       Like many of you, I picked up the first book in the Heartstopper series, read it straight through in one sitting, and immediately picked up volume 2. So the two are inextricably linked in my mind, and I can’t remember which held what part of the story to review them separately. (I READ MORE

  I’ve seen this book around a lot, and was intrigued by the premise. This is the story of two fathers. One white, one Black. Each has lost a son to violence, and they are connected by their sons, who were married to one another. Both fathers did not react well to their sons’ homosexuality READ MORE

  I have had this book on my shelf for so long now that I can’t even remember getting it! I kept meaning to pick it up… and then just not. But I was in the mood for something a bit light this week, and I saw this, and it seemed like the way to READ MORE

  I can’t believe I only just discovered this series of books. It is so my type of thing, and I had a period of reading all the books I could find about the holocaust – particularly those told from the perspective of a young girl (this was after reading Anne Frank’s Diary of a READ MORE