"For me, this one was emotionally destructive, whilst also being, in parts, very unsettling." Read my review for incredible debut novel The Push by Ashley Audrain...
Book review: Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
"This book was absolutely terrific and a genuinely scary ghost story that I loved from page one". Read my review for this incredibly spooky ghost story by Michelle Paver,,,
Book review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
"Bury me with this book. This was such a wonderful reading experience". Read my review for Shirley Jackson's positively wonderful classic horror novel...
Book review: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
"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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