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…
Fiction
Book Review: Convenience Store Woman
She found sanctuary in a supermarket. Now, she’s about to lose it. Keiko isn’t normal. At school and university people find her odd, and her family worries she will never…
Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles…
Book Review: The Lost Man (Blog Tour)
After adoring her previous bestsellers The Dry and Force of Nature, I am delighted to be back reviewing Jane Harper’s latest release The Lost Man. A huge thank you to Caolinn…
Book Review: Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami
So, it’s been a while… A detailed explanation for my mysterious vanishing will be provided in another post, but the short story for my disappearance is that for the past…
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: Love & Ruin (Blog Tour)
Everyone has heard of Ernest Hemingway. Irregardless of whether you’re familiar with his work or not, there’s a high chance you’ve heard his name crop up when literary greats are…
Lunacy in Literature (The Bell Jar, The Yellow Wallpaper and More)
As part of my Extended English Project, I chose to write about ‘lunacy in literature’ for my dissertation. This meant spending my summer scouring the internet for novels and articles…
Book Review: Force of Nature (Blog Tour)
Jane Harper’s only gone and done it again! After her sensational debut The Dry became a best-selling critical hit, Jane Harper’s follow-up Force of Nature hits shelves in hardback this…