Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
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…
Archive: Recommendations
Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie
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…
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
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…
The Faculty of Indifference by Guy Ware
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…
Unmastered by Katherine Angel
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…
White by Marie Darrieussecq
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…
Dominic Selwood’s Punctuation Without Tears: Punctuate Confidently – In Minutes
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…
Review of Reconciliation by Guy Ware
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…
Decision making lessons from Antarctic exploration. A book review of: When Your Life Depends On It by Brad Borkan & David Hirzel
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…
Review of A Secret Sisterhood Out June 1st
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…
Book Review of Owl Song at Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney
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…
Love across a broken map. An expanded book review by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone
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…
A Guide to Creativity by the Author of Eat Pray Love – Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
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…
The Intimacy of Tragedies: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
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…
An Engaging and Provocative Read – The Vegetarian by Han Kang
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…
An Unrushed Walk Through A Very Different Time – The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
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…
Penitent Perfection – The Apologist by Jay Rayner
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…
Satisfying Second Outing for Rowling’s New Sleuth – The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
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…
Superbly Creepy Debut – Home by Rebekah Lattin Rawstrone
Review by Tracey Sinclair. Buy this book here. A woman wakes up in hospital, not knowing where she is or how she got there. She is introduced to children she doesn’t remember, a family that isn’t hers…
Provocative Tale of a Modern Mother – Wounding by Heidi James
Review by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone Pre-order this book here. When I begin a novel, I anticipate a journey into new or differently interpreted experiences and I hope to be provoked into new or deeper a…
