"After so many years, the five women murdered by Jack the Ripper have been given a platform as women - mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, lovers". Read my review of Hallie Rubenhold's brilliant look into the lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper...
Book review: The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett
"This is the sort of book that leaves you to answer all your own questions". Read my review of Shirley Barrett's brilliant speculative fiction novel...
Book review: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
"Relevant, poignant and eye opening. This book brilliantly explores the history of (and current day) racism within Britain". Read my review of Reni Eddo-Lodge's incredibly eye-opening look at racism in Britain...
Books I wish I could read again for the first time
One so many occasions (especially when I'm not enjoying the book I'm currently reading) I think back on all my favourite reads and just wish I could go back read them for the first time again and experience that immense true love book feeling all over again. So that's what I'm going to talk about …
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Review: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Synopsis: Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront. Review: This was …
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Review: A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured …
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Review: Heaven’s Crooked Finger by Hank Early @hankjearly @crookedlanebks
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ’s church—a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to …
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Review: This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and This Is Going to Hurt intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result …
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Review: Night by Elie Wiesel
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, …
Review: In Bloom by C. J. Skuse @CJSkuse @HQStories
Pssst! The below review has spoilers for Sweetpea! Even the In Bloom synopsis spoils Sweetpea, so continue with care! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Rhiannon Lewis has successfully fooled the world and framed her cheating fiancé Craig for the depraved and bloody killing spree she committed. She should be ecstatic that she’s free. Except for one small problem. …
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