Tag: bookshops
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Review: The Quiet Girls – Dorothy Koomson
Dr Kez Lanyon is back and this time in a dark academia setting, under cover of a school girls disappearance. I adored it, Koomson is the Queen of the thriller for a reason.
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How to Keep Reading Stress Free
This one is for the Bookstagram and BookTok girlies: we need to take the stress and pressure out of reading and get back to how good it can be.
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Review: The Killing Spell – Shay Kauwe
A first of it’s kind: Hawaiian inspired fantasy with a magic systemic focusing on the importance of language. This was a lot of fun and fans of Babel will definitely enjoy this.
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Review: Strangerland – Monika Radojevic
Strangerland proves that love can transcend language, borders and whole oceans. Radojevic’s debut is a roaring success, readers will be incredibly moved by this one.
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March New Releases
Spring is definitely on it’s way and it’s time to find something great to curl up with, so let me help you with the best of March’s new releases. Get the kettle on, feel the sun on your skin and snuggle up with a new book. Sounds perfect, right?
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February New Releases
Spring is almost here and it’s time to find something great to curl up with. It’s definitely the perfect time to pick up a book being the National Year of Reading too, we’re ready to Go All In!
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Review: Black Dolls – Rachel Faturoti & Flo Woolley
It’s Battle of the Bands for Black pop-punk band Black Dolls and tensions are rising! A perfect mash up of Chinchilla’s Little Girl Gone and the TV show We Are Lady Parts.
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Review: Good Dirt – Charmaine Wilkerson
The fate of one jar ripples through history with this multi-generational story centring family legacy. This is Wilkerson’s best work yet and I’m so excited to see what comes next for her, do not miss this.
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Portsmouth BookFest Events
I’m super excited to share that I’ll be hosting two panels at Portsmouth BookFest this year! Hosting author panels are some of my favourite bookish events to do. It’s the National Year of Reading too so why not Go All In and get yourself stuck into a bookish event.
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January New Releases
The new year is well and truly underway and it’s time to find something great to curl up with. It’s definitely the perfect time to pick up a book being the National Year of Reading too, we’re ready to Go All In!
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Review: I Dreamed of You – Pim Wangtechawat
How does friendship fare when dreams and hopes of romance are involved? A beautifully light and delicate literary novel, set in beautiful Edinburgh.
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Best of 2025 – Your Must Read Books for 2026
2025 was another great year for reading. I read lots of my physical TBR (To Be Read Pile) and found some favourites lurking in there. I read some stunning new proofs, debuts that blew me away and brilliant novels from authors I already love. If 2026 is the year you get back into reading then…
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Review: I Can’t Even Think Straight – Dean Atta
Coming out for Kai didn’t quite go as planned, but the freedom he finds makes it all worthwhile, even if his best friend Matt isn’t ready to come out yet. Atta has knocked it out of the park again, a beautiful novel with nods to his previous work.
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Make Reading a Habit in 2026
If working out how to read more and to fit more reading into your already busy life feels like an impossible task, or if you just need some pointers to get you started, then let me share my top tips for getting more reading into your life in 2026.
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Review: Unwell Women – Elinor Cleghorn
A history of medical history through the lens of women, or, how women have been severely mistreated medically throughout history. Utterly brilliant yet continuously miserable.
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Review: Necessary Fiction – Eloghosa Osunde
A beautiful group of stories and characters that shows us what it means to be queer in Nigeria today. One of the most beautiful and quotable books I’ve read this year.
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November New Releases
Autumn is well and truly here and it’s time to find something great to curl up with. Get the kettle on, the blankets prepped and snuggle up with a new book. Sounds perfect, right?
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Review: Black Cake – Charmaine Wilkerson
A novel of uncovered family secrets and the lengths people go to for survival. I enjoyed the premise of this one, there was a lot going on and lots of twines to unravel.
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Review: Give Him to Me – Dorothy Koomson
Robyn witnessed the murder of her mother by her father and watched the world protect him, now she wants to track him down and is going through everyone connected with the case. I don’t think I’ll ever get enough of Kez and her cases, this is another brilliant one.
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Review: As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
Layla feels like she can’t leave Syria while she can still be of use in the hospital, but the revolution is getting closer and it’s only a matter of time… A devastating story of revolution and the hope that can blossom in the darkest of times.
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