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Review Archive
Here you can find all of our past book reviews.


Review of Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang
Within these walls exist a force that allows the hidden parts of people to be seen’ I absolutely devoured Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang and...
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Review of The Deadly Spark by Roxie Key
Roxie Key takes us to Brighton, where multiple cases of deadly fires are starting to occur and our protagonist DC Eve Starling is on high...
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Review of Enchanted Islands by Laura Coffey
I must first say that the hardback copy of this book is absolutely beautiful. Each chapter transports us somewhere new and is bookended...
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Review of The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
Sometimes finding your place in the world is the greatest puzzle of all... The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers will be one of the most...
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Review of Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
Set on a fictional island off the coast of Wales we follow Manod, a young woman who is considering her future and how she wishes to shape...
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Review of Dark Island by Daniel Aubrey
One of my favourite things is when a debut author absolutely knocks it out of the park with their first novel AND that novel is the first...
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Review of The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey
Three generations of Irish women all have their own past when it comes to their relationship with faith, freedom and the changing...
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Review of The Four by Ellie Keel
We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms.’ If you’re looking for a contemporary twist on a classical dark academia...
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Review of Saltblood by Francesca De Tores
Well... Wow... What can we say about Saltbood..? We LOVED IT! Saltblood is Francesca’s debut historical fiction novel which was inspired...
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Review of The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
The Borrowed Hills is one of John Murrays’ leading 2024 titles and I can absolutely see why - the writing is exceptional, visceral,...
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Review of The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
The idea of this book is so utterly fantastic I was sold in the first ten pages! Odile Ozanne lives in the valley of the Chemin des Pins....
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Review of England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee
It’s not often you can say ‘I haven’t read anything like this before’ but here it’s true. Nicolas Padamsee has painted a portrait of...
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Review of All Us Sinners by Katy Massey
Set in late 1970s Leeds, this debut crime novel takes place against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders. It’s the story of...
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Review of The Chain by Chimene Suleyman
If you read one book this month, this year, let it be this one. Strap in and join the chain. This is a debut memoir that had me gripped...
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Review of I’m F*cking Amazing by Anoushka Warden
As well as giving a voice to the chronically misunderstood condition of vaginismus, this debut is a raw, unflinching and genuinely...
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Review of The Dark Within Them by Isabelle Kenyon
A psychological thriller which tests the faith of matrimony and how far you would go to cover up a secret. Faith healer Amber meets Chad...
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Review of Learning to Think by Tracy King
Having grown up in poverty surrounded by grief and anxiety, Tracy tells her story of how she and her family battled hardships graver than...
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Review of How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Frances always said that she’d be murdered. She was right! When a fortune teller warns seventeen-year-old Frances Adams that she will one...
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Review of Star Survivor by Lisa Brace
Four strangers. One Island. Reality TV gone wrong. Star Survivor is a fresh contemporary and commercial fiction novel, with a light yet...
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Review of My Name Was Eden by Eleanor Barker-White
Warning Readers will not be able to resist reading in one sitting! My Name Was Eden is a chilling psychological thriller that fans of...
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