Frankfurter Buchmesse is the place to be in October. It is the most important trading hub for printed and digital content and a key event in the cultural and social calendar. This year the fair takes…
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At Byte The Book, we’re always on the lookout for initiatives that align with our values and offer meaningful opportunities for our community. That’s why we wanted to share Libraro with you—a platform…
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Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews and recommends Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. This isn’t an easy book to read. Such a Fun Age looks at two women caring for Briar, a little girl just on the cusp of her…
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Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews and recommends Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie. Metamorphosis is the word I would use to summarise this collection, the second one from Irenosen Okojie. Everything is po…
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Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews and recommends Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz I deliberately read this novel slowly. Easily devoured in a few hours, if this is the kind of writing you like, you don’t…
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Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews and recommends The Faculty of Indifference by Byte The Book Member, Guy Ware. Robert Exley works at the Faculty, a counter-terrorism branch of government in which his…
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Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews and recommends Unmastered: A Book On Desire, Most Difficult to Tell by Katherine Angel I loved this book. At first, I was taken aback by all the space; there is an aph…
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Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews and recommends White by Marie Darrieussecq Edmeé and Pete have never met. They come from separate parts of the globe, but White follows their individual journeys to An…
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I’m not sure about all of you but I have a real phobia around punctuation. An old writing tutor once said to me that I just stand over text and sprinkle punctuation at random. So I was really pleased…
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Reconciliation, the second novel by Byte the Book member Guy Ware, is a page-turning quest to uncover the real story of the family spy; a story that rewrites both past and present. Reconciliation take…
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Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews When Your Life Depends On It co-written by Byte the Book member, Brad Borkan and David Hirzel. Antarctic exploration of the early 1900s, before radio communications an…
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Byte the Book members, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have been interested in literary female friendship for some time. Not believing that the famous male literary friendships, like Coleridg…
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Maeve runs Sea View Lodge in Morecambe. Nearly eighty years old, Maeve has lived there all her life. A guest house that once catered to civil servants in the war, builders afterwards and now specialis…
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I was lucky enough to be given Love across a broken map by Farhana Shaikh of Dahlia Publishing. Through Byte the Book and the Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society, I’d been invited to the All P…
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Buy this book. Review by Tracey Sinclair. Do you want to pen a best seller? An award winning play? An Oscar nominated script? Then, suggests mega selling writer Elizabeth Gilbert, you might very well…
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Review by Jantien Abma Buy this book. This pocket-sized book comprises of two ‘slice of life’ stories, the titular Kitchen and forty-page Moonlight Shadow. Each brief yet peculiarly intimate story is…
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Buy this book here Review by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone. When I was studying my A Levels I had a friend from Southern Japan. I was with her the first time she saw England in the snow. It was a small cou…
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You can buy this book here. Review by Jantien Abma The Rainbow follows the life of small farm-owner Tom Brangwen as he grapples with the frustrations of love, intellect and English tradition in the mi…
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Review by Justine Solomons Buy this book The Apologist is great. I’m a big fan of Jay Rayner’s writing. I tend to buy the paper at the weekend, skim the headlines and look at pictures, but Jay’s one o…
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Buy this book. Review by Tracey Sinclair. The first novel in the Cormoran Strike series was overshadowed by the media furore when ‘Robert Galbraith’ was unhappily outed as a pseudonym for none other t…
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