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


Review of All The Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
‘The missing boy is ten-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he’s a little shit...’
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Review of The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson-Wheeler
Agatha Christie meets F. Scott Fitzgerald in this utterly captivating tale, where not everything that sparkles is gold.
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Review of Luminous by Silvia Park
A very accomplished debut from a sophisticated writer who’s going to be huge in the sci-fi genre.
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Review of Bad Blood by Sarah Hornsley
Imagine being given your first murder case, only to realise that the suspect of a double homicide is your childhood sweetheart...
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Review of This Immaculate Body by Emma van Straaten
If you were obsessed with Baby Reindeer, then you’ll be obsessed with This Immaculate Body!
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Review of The Day of the Roaring by Nina Bhadreshwar
a brilliant first slice of crime procedural thriller with some hard-hitting and thought-provoking themes
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Review of Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
fantasy and slow-burn romance coupled with a contemporary twist on the classical crime and horror stories of Sherlock Holmes and Dracula...
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Review of Guilty By Definition by Susie Dent
a clever mystery novel which takes place within a dictionary publishing house with the majority of the cast being lexicographers
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Review of Amphibian by Tyler Wetherall
Girlhood at it’s finest. Puberty is a metamorphosis and Sissy is changing. Her body is no longer her own but something reptilian...
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Review of Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell
The Death of a Bookseller meets Sweet Pea in tone, Love Letters to a Serial Killer is the new razor-sharp thriller on the block...
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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 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 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 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 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 The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry then do we have the book for you! Jennie Godfrey’s heartwarming debut, The List of...
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Review of Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody
Cosmopolitan has named Kate Brody’s Rabbit Hole as one of ‘the 20 best books to look forward to in 2024’. This book is a deliciously dark...
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Review of Shot in the Dark by Anna Britton
I did not know that I needed this book (and its characters) in my life until they were in my life, but I was IMMEDIATELY intrigued by the...
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Review of The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
When Oceans 8 meets Downton Abbey, you get The Housekeepers. This bingeworthy debut novel breathes a lease of fresh air into the...
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Review of Don't Swipe Right by L. M. Chilton
Gwen finds herself single and miserable at her best friend's bachelor party, but her obsession with dating apps is going to change...
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