For transparency, I’ve reached December and realised I am horribly behind compiling these reviews and I have read so many book this year so here’s another one!! Surprise!! You just…
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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: The Edible Woman
cw // mentions of eating disorders Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancée and quietly awaits marriage. But she…
Book Review: Mrs Dalloway
Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal…
12 Things To Check Out in 2021
We’re back in lockdown once again! While I continue to compose my Swiss ‘Tinder Travels’ pièce de résistance and attempt to stay sane among the busy new year workload, I…
Book Review: Wide Sargasso Sea
Born into an oppressive colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage, disturbing rumours begin to…
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: 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…