Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur. Into his empty…
Contemporary
Book Review: This Love by Dani Atkins
Sophie Winter lives in a self-imposed cocoon – she’s a single, thirty-one year old translator who works from home in her one bedroom flat. This isn’t really the life she…
Book Review: Conversations with Friends
Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to…
Book Review: The Unhoneymooners
Thank you to the lovely team at Little Brown’s Piatkus for sending me a copy of one of my most highly anticipated reads of 2019, The Unhoneymooners. You truly do…
Book Review: The Hating Game
I received a copy of Sally Thorne’s hilarious The Hating Game when it was published many moons ago by Piatkus in the UK. However, be it that I was simply busy with…
Book Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Bernadette Fox has vanished. When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for…
Book Review: The Incendiaries (Blog Tour)
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult…
Book Review: Absent in the Spring
Happy Publication Day to Carrie Elks! The third instalment in the Shakespeare Sisters saga, Absent in the Spring, hits shelves today and Little, Brown were extremely generous enough to provide…
Book Review: The Leavers (Blog Tour)
Dialogue Books’ incredible launch title The Leavers by the equally incredible Lisa Ko hits shelves tomorrow and I am absolutely delighted to have been sent a copy by the lovely folks…