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The Book Lover's Boudoir
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A book review website that covers all genres including horror, literary and fantasy. E-books, paper backs and hard backs are reviewed. Books are rated on a scale of 1-5 stars.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4047 )
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New Fears REVIEW COPY
The horror genre's greatest living practitioners drag our darkest fears kicking and screaming into the light in this collection of nineteen brand-new stories. I... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
I Am Watching You
When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it-until she realises they are fresh out... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence REVIEW COPY
It's not every day that the Devil knocks on your door. From the critically-acclaimed author of Only Forward comes a delightful new tale about Hannah, a young... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Paris for One and Other Stories REVIEW COPY
Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been in a romantic weekend away - anywhere - before. Travelling abroad isn't really her thing.... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
In your hands is a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West.... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Mythago Wood
The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, long, life. Now, after his death, his sons have... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
What Becomes
Always attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility - each... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Wychwood REVIEW COPY
Elspeth May, a young female journalist who never seems to be in the right place at the right time, suddenly gets her big break only to find that no one will eve... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Carnivore REVIEW COPY
Meet Leander: lover, fighter, liar. He learnt a long time ago that nothing is as intoxicating as blood. But whether it's his or someone else's doesn't matter... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic ARC
Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Everything We Keep
A luminous debut with unexpected twists, Everything We Keep explores the devastation of loss, the euphoria of finding love again, and the pulse-racing... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2011
A celebrated winner of fiction's Orange Prize, Helen Dunmore is as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her novels. As in her fiction, these haunting... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Rabbit: A Memoir REVIEW COPY
Patricia started life on the lowest rung of society: poor, black, and female. With an alcoholic for a mother and four siblings, she was raised on a steady diet... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Snowman MOVIE-TIE IN ARC
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING MICHAEL FASSBENDER OVER 30 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE The first snow will come. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Man Crazy
An intense roller-coaster ride into the abyss, MAN CRAZY charts the fall and rise of teenager Ingrid Boone, abandoned by her father, moving from town to town,... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Dark Harvest
Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol' Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project.' They're in the prime of their lives but our bright young things are all burnt out. Six sparky twenty-somethings jus... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Limehouse Golem REVIEW COPY
Dan Leno, the great music hall comedian, was known in his lifetime as 'the funniest man on earth'. So how could he have been involved in one of the most... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Another Day Gone
In the wake of the 2005 London bombings, Sara returns to her childhood home in Oxfordshire to find that her sister, Polly, has finally come back after being... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE