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• The Book Of Strange New Things – Michel Faber

  

  What’s it all about?:A monumental, genre-defying novel over ten years in the making, Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently –...

  

  What’s it all about?:The fiercest new voice of feminism – Emer O’Toole is the perfect mix of Caitlin Moran, Germaine Greer and Lena Dunham. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin

  

  What’s it all about?:The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller‘The Immortalists is about as good as it gets’ Karen Joy Fowler‘Like literary nectar’ Hannah... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• All Day At The Movies – Fiona Kidman

  

  What’s it all about?:When war widow Irene Sandle goes to work in New Zealand’s tobacco fields in 1952, she hopes to start a new, independent life for herself an... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – We Were The Salt Of The Sea by Roxanne Bouchard (translated by...

  

  What’s it all about?:As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Killed (Henning Juul #5) by Thomas Enger, Translated by Kari Dickson

  

  What’s it all about?:Henning Juul sits in a boat on a dark lake. A man with a gun sits opposite him. At the man’s feet is a body that will be soon be dumped int... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2018 – Why The Yew Tree Lives So Long by Kate Mosse...

  

  What’s Why The Yew Tree Lives So Long all about?:This is a story about a particular group of yew trees including what they have seen through history and how the... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2018 – FEBRUARY READ – Matilda by Roald Dahl

  

  What’s it all about?:Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she’s knocking off double-digit multiplication problems... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Lie Tree – Frances Hardinge

  

  What’s it all about?:Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy – a proper young lady who knows her place as inferio... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2018 – FEBRUARY READ – Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

  

  What’s it all about?:About three things I was absolutely positive.First, Edward was a vampire.Second, there was a part of him—and I didn’t know how dominant tha... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Bear And The Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1) – Katherine Arden

  

  What’s it all about?:At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stay With Me – Ayobami Adebayo

  

  What’s it all about?:Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• If I Fall, If I Die – Michael Christie

  

  What’s it all about?:A heartfelt and wondrous debut about family, fear, and skateboarding, that Karen Russell calls “A bruiser of a tale . . . a death-defying... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Gracekeepers – Kirsty Logan

  

  What’s it all about?:For readers of The Night Circus and Station Eleven, a lyrical and absorbing debut set in a world covered by water. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anatomy Of A Scandal – Sarah Vaughan

  

  What’s it all about?:Sophie’s husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Five Star TBR Predictions #1 – The Wrap Up

  

  Hello everyone! Last year, I was inspired by one of my favourite book-tubers, Mercedes from Mercy’s Bookish Musings who posted a brilliant video where she went... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock band, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is ... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Come A Little Closer by Rachel Abbott

  

  What’s it all about?:They will be coming soon. They come every night.Snow is falling softly as a young woman takes her last breath.Fifteen miles away, two... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mini Pin-It Reviews #18 – Four Random Books

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to another mini pin-it reviews post! I have a massive backlog of reviews and this is my way of trying to get on top of things a bit. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Paper Butterflies – Lisa Heathfield

  

  What’s it all about?:June’s life at home with her stepmother and stepsister is a dark one—and a secret one. She is trapped like a butterfly in a net.But then... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE