
Book Review: Spare …Prince Harry
Oh, what a circus! Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the past few months, you’ll have seen some of the furore around Harry and Meghan. It’s a furore I’ve … Continue Reading Book Review: Spare …Prince Harry
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Oh, what a circus! Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the past few months, you’ll have seen some of the furore around Harry and Meghan. It’s a furore I’ve … Continue Reading Book Review: Spare …Prince Harry
If The Villa isn’t on my best books of the year list come December, then I’ll have had a bloody good reading year. Amazingly, this was on my anticipated books … Continue Reading Book Review: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow seemed to be EVERYWHERE last year, I’d read so many positive reviews about it, I was beginning to think I was the last person to … Continue Reading Book Review: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
It’s fair to say my backlist didn’t fair too well last year. The majority of my 2022 reads were new releases or books I’d bought. I didn’t even attempt to … Continue Reading 2023 Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge….
So, I didn’t hit my 52 books target this year, for the second year running. I was a fair way off. I’m surprised by that; I’ve spent an obscene amount … Continue Reading 2022 in books (my favourites)
Duckling’s a nickname Lucy has never been able to shake off.And, if she’s honest, maybe it suits her.She just isn’t the type to socialise with other people.You might say she’s … Continue Reading Book Review: Duckling by Eve Ainsworth
I didn’t do a disappointing books post last year. To be fair, in 2021 there were just two books that I hated, it didn’t seem worth it. I smugly thought … Continue Reading My Most Disappointing Reads of 2022
Firstly, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, managed to relax and spend time with your loved ones. I’m using that weird lull in between Christmas and New Year … Continue Reading Book Review: The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
I have mixed feelings on this one. Very, very mixed feelings. It’s a book of two halves. There’s a lot to the man I never met by Elle Cook it appears as … Continue Reading Book Review: The Man I Never Met by Elle Cook
I love Dolly Alderton’s writing. I have done ever since I stumbled across her memoir “Everything I know about love” by accident a few years ago. A book I then bought for my best … Continue Reading Book Review: Dear Dolly by Dolly Alderton
Dorothy Koomson plays an absolute blinder with her latest book My Other Husband. I’ve read a lot of Dorothy Koomson’s work, I always look out for her new releases, luckily, … Continue Reading Book Review: My Other Husband by Dorothy Koomson
If you ever feel as though the world is totally shit and there’s no hope for humans (and let’s be honest sometimes looking around you’d be forgiven for thinking that), … Continue Reading Book Review: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
I try to steer clear of political books, I work in news, I don’t need the negativity in my down time too, but I couldn’t quite resist delving into Jonathan … Continue Reading Book Review| Jonathan Pie: Off the Record
As has been a running theme for 2022, I’m quite a few book reviews behind. Anywho, I did manage to read a fair few books through November so thought it … Continue Reading November in books| Mini reviews
What do you do when you’re 11 and your best friend – the Rolls bloody Royce of best friends – dies suddenly? This is what Norman Foreman’s facing when we … Continue Reading Book Review: The funny thing about Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson
It’s just turned 9pm on Tuesday, I’m in bed in my part time home (a hotel in Newcastle), I had every intention of a ridiculously early night but instead I’ve … Continue Reading Book Review: Wish you were here yet? by James Crookes