Journalist, traveller, collector of hats, bookworm
I’ve really fallen behind these past few weeks with writing and reading. A combination of returning to work in the office full time (yay!!) and having a number of special … Continue Reading Book Review: The Sight of You by Holly Miller
I got started on this as soon as it appeared on my Kindle last week and had finished a day later. Sophie Heawood is an entertainment journalist, this is her … Continue Reading Book Review: The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
This book is superb. I finished it in a single Sunday afternoon sitting, it had me laughing, cringing (oh god the cringing) and examining white privilege, race, class and inequality. … Continue Reading Book Review: Such a fun age by Kiley Reid
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore (Helen Reddy and Ray Burton) I love Cecelia Ahern’s books. I love the touch of magic she sprinkles … Continue Reading Book Review: Roar by Cecelia Ahern
Here’s my wrap up for May, albeit few days late, for someone who works to tight deadlines on a daily basis, time keeping in my personal life leaves a lot … Continue Reading May Wrap Up
I have to start this post by saying sorry to Simon, he sent me a copy of this exquisite book two years ago with a lovely note inside. I had … Continue Reading Book Review: The Songaminute Man by Simon McDermott.
I read Half a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus quite a few years back, I enjoy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s writing, why it’s taken me seven years to pick up Americanah, … Continue Reading Book Review: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Welcome to Monday and the start of another new week. I finished Apeirogon by Colum McCann over the weekend and it gave me serious book hangover. It was a pretty … Continue Reading The TBR Shelf
This is a book for anyone who’s felt lost, in the wrong life or the wrong knickers. Bryony Gordon’s a Journalist for The Telegraph, this is her first memoir and … Continue Reading Book Review: The Wrong Knickers by Bryony Gordon
A few days on from finishing this book, I have mixed feelings about it…… Here’s the premise, in 1803, Phera, is born to the elephant keeper of the independent mountainous Sinhalese Kingdom … Continue Reading Book Review: The Elephant keeper’s daughter by Julia Drosten
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