Tag: reading
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Review: Celestial Lights – Cecile Pin
Celestial Lights follows Ollie as he’s going where no man has gone before, to Jupiter’s moon to search for life. More exquisite writing from Pin that starts gentle but leaves a heavy hole after finishing.
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Bookish Confessions
It’s time to spill the tea. Here are my bookish confessions that I both think you need to know, and will make you feel better about your own reading habits.
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May New Releases
The month of multiple bank holidays is finally with us, so let me help you with the best of this month’s new releases. Get the kettle on, feel the sun on your skin and get ready for a new book. Sounds perfect, right?
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Review: Brielle and Bear – Salomey Doku
A beautifully illustrated graphic novel duology, set at university which romance at its’ core. I come away from these smiling so much!
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Brighton Book Festival: Look What’s Coming
I’m beyond excited to share that I’m back at Brighton Book Fest this year, talking all things new releases with the brilliant Isabella Silvers.
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Review: Kin – Tayari Jones
Two motherless girls, raised side by side until their lives take them in different directions. An unforgettable tale of sisterhood.
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April New Releases
The warmer days have been teasing us and it’s almost outside reading time, so let me help you with the best of April’s new releases. Get the kettle on, feel the sun on your skin and get ready for a new book.
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Portsmouth Comic Con
I’m beyond excited to share that I’m back at Portsmouth Comic Con this weekend and I’ll be interviewing the legendary Juno Dawson!
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Review: Havisham – Elle Machray
You’ll know of Miss Havisham through Dickens’ Great Expectations but get ready to find out who she was and could be when women write their own stories. One of my favourite reads of the year, a stunning reworking of one of literacy’s most ignored women.
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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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