Tag: non-fiction
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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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Best Non-Fiction of 2025
If you’ve been around for a while then you’ll know that I love a non-fiction every now and then. They make up roughly a quarter of what I read each year and I love finding new perspectives and expanding my mind.
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Review: Poyums Annaw – Len Pennie
A collection of poems centring feminine rage and the female experience and most of all, love and hope. This is a brilliantly passionate collection and perfect follow up after her debut.
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Review: Your Tears Fall Like Pearls – Adukeh
A beautiful debut poetry collection, overflowing with grief.
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Disability Pride Month Recommendations
Disability Pride Month is celebrated throughout July and as ever, it’s important to highlight and celebrate these voices. The landscape is grim right now and we can start by educating ourselves and understanding more, using that knowledge and energy in our allyship.
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Review: Conversations on Love – Natasha Lunn
A collection of conversations on love with both experts in the fields and authors, covering everything that comes under the umbrella of love. There’s some really beautiful parts of this book and while not everything will resonate with everyone, you’ll find that you need to hear.
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Queer Graphic Novels
Graphic novels are rising in popularity and I’m absolutely here for it. The books are pieces of art and I always spend so much time lost in the artwork.
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Review: Reframing Blackness: What’s Black about “History of Art” – Alayo Akinkugbe
A brilliant and important argument defending the narrative for not separating Black Art from the rest of history, but actively including it. Beautifully written and accessible for all readers, art fanatics or not.
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Review: Queer As Folklore – Sacha Coward
From witches to werewolves, mermaids to vampires, so much folklore has queerness knotted in it, Coward looks at how stories have been lost and how they connect to queerness.
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Bookish Bingo Check In
I thought it was time I did a quick check in of my own! If you’re new here, I’m running a six month reading competition where you could be in with a chance of winning lots of bookish goodies!
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Review – Home Body – Theo Parish
Homebody is a non-fiction graphic novel in which author Theo Parish takes us on their journey to feel at home in their body. There are often books we say are necessary reading and I truly believe Homebody is one of them.
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Review – I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki – Baek Sehee
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a recount of the authors conversations with her physiotherapist and some of her thoughts in between. One sentence review: This book was worth the hype.
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Books for the Girls – Forever Learning
Books for the girls is an ode to the incredible women I’ve met in this space. It’s inspired by Monika Radojevic’s A beautiful lack of consequence, which looks at the experience of womanhood through many lenses and was just brilliant. I love finding themes that spread across genres and authors and this short series will…
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Review: How to Say Babylon – Safiya Sinclair
Following poet and author Safiya Sinclair, How To Say Babylon is her memoir of a life growing up Jamaican in a Rastafarian household. “You were born too sensitive for this world”
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Let’s Talk About Pre-Ordering
Have you ever wondered why authors, publishers and everyone else always talks about pre-ordering books? There’s a brilliant reason so let’s talk about it.
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My Bookish Bingo Choices
My 2025 reading challenge is live and I’ve loved seeing everyone get involved! In the spirit or sharing, let me talk through my choices for the nine prompts, most of which are already on my shelves
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My 2025 Reading Goals
We’ve talked a lot about reading goals already and how they stress some and leave others feeling not enough, so for transparency I wanted to share the goals I’m setting this year.
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Let’s Talk About Reading Goals
It’s the time of year where you might you’ll have seen readers panicking about hitting their reading goals and recommending quick reads to hit your goals. So let’s talk about it.
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