Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Rating: 5/5 Blurb: On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband’s home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride […]

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Rating 3.5/5 Blurb: Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the […]

The Songs of Us by Emma Cooper

Rating 5/5 Release date: Ebook: 31st May 2018 Paperback: 20th September 2018 Blurb: If Melody hadn’t run out of de-icer that day, she would never have slipped and banged her head. She wouldn’t be left with a condition that makes her sing when she’s nervous. And she definitely wouldn’t have belted out the Arctic Monkeys’ […]

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Rating: 5/5 Blurb: Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is […]

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

Rating: 5/5 Blurb: Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband’s crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a […]

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

Rating: 5/5 Blurb: There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant […]

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Mass

Rating: 3/5 stars Blurb: Feyre’s survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do […]

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Rating: 5/5 stars Blurb: Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she’s never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she couldn’t stick out more if she tried. Park is the boy at the back of the bus, Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book – he thinks he’s made […]

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (Book Review)

Rating: 4/5 Blurb: Maddy is allergic to the world; stepping outside the sterile sanctuary of her home could kill her. But then Olly moves in next door. And just like that, Maddy realizes there’s more to life than just being alive. You only get one chance at first love. And Maddy is ready to risk […]

Alice: The Wanderland Chronicles by J. M. Sullivan (Book Review)

Alice: The Wanderland Chronicles by J. M. Sullivan Rating: 4/5 Blurb: Ever since the outbreak of the Plague life hasn’t been easy, and for seventeen-year-old Alice Carroll it just got worse. Her sister, Dinah, has contracted the ‘un-deadly’ Momerath Virus and without a cure will soon be worse than dead. She’ll be momerath. Alice must […]