Review written by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone. Buy this book here. The Medici Mirror is Melissa Bailey’s first novel and it is a gripping one. Hidden in the basement of an abandoned Victorian shoe factor…
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Buy The Wicked Girls Review by Tracey Sinclair From Mary Bell to Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, children who kill children remain uniquely horrifying and perennially fascinating. Alex Marwood isn’t…
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Buy Redshirts. Review by Tracey Sinclair. You don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to love Redshirts – though it certainly doesn’t hurt. This cleverly written novel is set in a universe suspiciously simil…
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Buy this book here. Review by Tracey Sinclair. The title of this book is, as the author cheerfully and rather cheekily admits, something of a misnomer, since there’s little actual evidence that Willia…
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Buy this book. Review by Justine Solomons. You know how some books stay with you for ages? Shift your world perceptions, make you re-assess your own actions and thoughts? Well, Still Alice is one of t…
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Buy this book. Review by Justine Solomons. I remember watching the 2011 London Riots and being amazed, but also thinking ‘this is inevitable isn’t it?’ Our capitalist society just isn’t fair. Things l…
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Due to be released on 12 September 2013, pre-order your copy here. Review by Zoe Cunningham The Cruellest Game contains an important admonition. It’s one we should all know already, yet countless hero…
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A while back we met with, Katy Grant and Karen Green, the founders of the very popular Facebook Book Club. They started their group just over a year ago, to help friends decide what books to read. Sin…
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Buy this book here. Review by Julia Newhouse In the wake of big criminal cases (like the recent discovery of three women held captive in Ohio for over a decade), communities tend to ask themselves wha…
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Buy this book for only £2.29 here. Review by Julia Newhouse. Have you ever just wanted to shut the world out? Destroy your phone? Stop going into work? Take up residence in a walk-in closet? Wait. Tak…
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Buy The View on the Way Down. Review by Julia Newhouse. There are books that hit that you, because they are emotionally heavy. They move, they provoke, they touch you. These are the very adjectives th…
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Buy this book. Review by Justine Solomons. I really enjoyed the Human Script and since reading it a while have found myself reflecting on it often. Chris Putnam is a young scientist working on the Hum…
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Buy this book here. Review by Tracey Sinclair. The discovery of the long-lost skeleton of Richard III in a Leicester carpark has reignited interest in this most controversial of monarchs, but those lo…
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Review by Caroline Goldsmith. Buy this book here. Back in 2012 Tracey Sinclair introduced us to the world of “Dark Dates”, a London inhabited by vampires and home to feisty heroine and “sensitive” Cas…
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Pre-order this book here. Review by Julia Newhouse. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a compelling book about a young woman finding her place in the politics of varying niche positions: at an a…
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Buy this book Review by Julia Newhouse When you have read and loved an author’s work, their name comes to mean something to you. Just as you might avoid a novel because you hated an author’s other wor…
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Buy this book Review by Justine Solomons This is a stunning debut. I absolutely loved it, finishing it within a single day. Butler has created two beautiful central characters playing their lives ag…
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Preorder this book here. Review written by Julia Newhouse. There is nothing quite as enjoyable on a cold winter’s day as a good, hearty bowl of escapist fiction. There is something wonderfully all-enc…
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Review by Julia Newhouse. Buy the series starting with The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4. There is something to be said for coming to a series late. Having not spent my formative years in th…
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Buy this book. Review by Tracey Sinclair. If you want to know more about the Ancient Greeks but are daunted about where to start, Charlotte Higgins’ lively book is just up your alley. Written with a t…
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