There are 200 roses in Sarajevo, each are memorials made from concrete scars caused by mortar explosions and filled with red resin. Each rose on the pavement of the city … Continue Reading Book Review: Rose of Sarajevo by Ayse Kulin
Earlier this year I read The One by John Marrs after my friend Alice spent the best part of year (probably longer to be honest) nagging me to read it. … Continue Reading Book Review: The Passengers by John Marrs
This is my first venture into Esther Freud’s work and, while melancholic, I couldn’t love you more is beautiful and incredibly moving. It’s the story of three generations of women, … Continue Reading Book Review: I couldn’t love you more by Esther Freud
I have mixed views on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab. The concept and story is so intriguing, yet I wasn’t entirely sold on it. As always … Continue Reading Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
A few years ago, I read the Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, the story of Lale a Slovakian Jew in Auschwitz forced to permanently mark his fellow prisoners. During … Continue Reading Book Review: Three Sisters by Heather Morris
It’s Sunday the 28th August 2005, the sun has set over Bramham park in Leeds, I’ve spent the past three nights sleeping in a tent unwisely pitched on a hill meaning … Continue Reading Book Review: The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
We are 100 would make a superb TV series. Seriously, someone, somewhere must have picked this up already and if they haven’t, they need to. I’ve been back on a … Continue Reading Book Review: We are 100 by Nathan Timmel
Where are you indeed? Okay, I fully got swept up in Normal People – the book and tv series….I did not get swept up in Sally Rooney’s new novel, Beautiful … Continue Reading Book Review: Beautiful world where are you by Sally Rooney
By this point, I have completely abandoned my mission to clear books off my TBR, I managed four out of the ten, then new books appeared on my Kindle and … Continue Reading Book Review: Freckles by Cecelia Ahern
When I bought The Comfort Book by Matt Haigh, I bought myself some sunflowers at the same time in the spirit of comfort. I look at sunflowers and immediately the … Continue Reading Book Review: The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
Slight weeklong hiatus, so let’s get cracking! How many of us heard or read the ‘cool girl’ rant in Gone Girl nodding with a wry smile? “Men always say that … Continue Reading Book Review: Pretending by Holly Bourne
Okay, I’m led to believe that this may be a controversial opinion….I liked this book, I didn’t love it. I’ve had The Fault in our Stars in my kindle for … Continue Reading Book Review: The Fault in our Stars by John Green
I have never read a book where the characters are so odious and yet, have been so intrigued to find out what happens to them. The Party is about the … Continue Reading Book Review: The Party by Elizabeth Day
I’m starting with a confession it took me a long time to get into Dear Amy. I think I had serious book hangover after reading Songbirds, I still keep thinking … Continue Reading Book Review: Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan
I was about to start this review by saying this isn’t my ‘usual read’, then I thought I don’t really have a usual read. I’m a mood reader. I don’t … Continue Reading Book Review: The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
It’s official, Dorothy Koomson has never written a book I haven’t liked, granted there’s four on my Kindle that I need to read but I have complete faith in the … Continue Reading Book Review: I know what you’ve done by Dorothy Koomson