Review: Alphabetical, Michael Rosen
Which letter of the alphabet marks your social class? Who invented the postcode? What letters have disappeared from our alphabet? Why do Americans use the alphabet differently? These are all […]
Unexpected Awesome
Review: The Boyfriend List, E. Lockhart
Oh Ruby Oliver, you taught me so much. I don’t read young adult fiction, I didn’t even read it much when I was a young adult. I get frequent book […]
Review: Of Bees and Mist, Erick Setiawan
Of Bees and Mist is a difficult book to categorise, it shrugs away any attempt to truly define it in any one genre. It is a sensual tale, not quite […]
Review: Longbourn, Jo Baker
It doesn’t take a particularly dedicated follower of this blog to realise that I am a big Austen fan so I was always going to take a friendly interest in […]
Review: The Universe Versus Alex Woods, Gavin Extence
This was Gavin Extence’s first novel and although it was being pushed heavily by Waterstones, I held off buying it because it was in hardback so was especially pleased that it […]
Review: Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir vs. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
The week before last I went to Hampton Court with a friend for the first time since I was eight. As well as getting completely lost in the maze and […]
Review: Game Of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
I am not generally speaking a fan of fantasy writing. That is not to say that I don’t read any of it ever – I read the Harry Potter series because I […]