I've been a bit of a reading slump this month and haven're felt very inspired by most of the books on this list. Luckily after rea...

I'm not that fussed about Dave Eggers, I know some people absolutely love his books, but before The Circle  I'd only read What is th...

Continuing my quest to discover new authors, I downloaded a couple more kindle samples (the first part can be read here ), here's my fin...

Oh I had such high hopes for the Icarus Girl, but I'm left feeling dissatisfied. The Plot: Jessamy is an unusual child, sensitive a...

Kindly lent to me by my older sister, The Shock of the Fall  won the Costa Book of the year prize in 2013. Written by Nathan Filer, a former...

"Every generation get the end-of-the-world anxiety it deserves; it used to be transcendental, then it became elemental, and now it is ...

One of the best things about kindle is the 'try before you buy', where you can get samples of books, usually the first chapter, sent...

I'm so ashamed to admit I've read this, it's absolute trash and not even good trash like The Other Boleyn Girl  or funny trash ...

If you haven't read Hilary Mantel's  Wolf Hall and its equally brilliant sequel Bring Up the Bodies I highly recommend you get a c...

I'm holding The Uninvited partially responsible for the reason why I woke up screaming a couple of nights ago. I can't fully recall ...