Rom-coms, dystopias, family sagas, and full-on conceptual weirdness – this set of recent reads couldn’t have been more different if they tried. Some of these I tore through in a…
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Reading Round-up: Mona Awad, Donna Tartt, Olivie Blake, Angela Carter + More!
So, the end of 2025 was a bit of a write-off. Long story short: I was in and out of hospital – occasionally lucid, occasionally fully hallucinating – and somehow…
Book Review: Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio
Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets…
Book Review: Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also talented musicians—who fled China in the…
Book Review: Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
Camp counsellor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her highly strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one…
Book Review: Bunny by Mona Awad
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her…
2023 in Book Reviews: Motherthing, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, The List & New Animal
Today’s book review roundup is an eclectic mix of love, grief, chaos and just downright disaster. It includes; Ainslie Hogarth’s Motherthing, Coco Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Yomi Adegoke’s The List…
Book Review: Rouge by Mona Awad
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in…
Book Review: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
A historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. Carlota Moreau: a young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate,…