The Outrun By Amy Liptrot Conogate Books Rating: ***** Synopsis: When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was once home, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have … Continue reading Book Review – The Outrun
YOU By Caroline Kepnis Simon & Schuster Rating: **** Synopsis: When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works, he is instantly smitten. But there's more to Joe than Beck realises and much more to Beck than her perfect facade. And the obsessive relationship quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences... … Continue reading Book Review – YOU
Conversations With Friends By Sally Rooney Faber & Faber Rating: **** Synopsis: Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the … Continue reading Book Review – Conversations With Friends
Hi everyone, so you may of seen a recent post of mine "Tacking my TBR part 3" where I list my bookshelf TBR pile and record how much I have read from it. Well I am slacking! It's coming towards the end of 2018 and I still have so many books on my bookshelf that … Continue reading Five for Friday – I WILL read these before the end of the year
Together By Julie Cohen Orion Rating: **** Synopsis: This is not a great love story. This is a story about great love. On a morning that seems just like any other, Robbie wakes in his bed, his wife Emily asleep beside him, as always. He rises and dresses, makes his coffee, feeds his dogs, just … Continue reading Book Review – Together
Every-time I see a list or a book sale that is called "Summer Reads" I know that it will pretty much be romantic, easy reading, mum books that I have no interest in at all. If these so called "summer reads" aren't your cup of tea either take a look at my alternative books to … Continue reading Five for Friday – Alternative Summer Reads
So many novels these days get transformed into films and make millions on the big screen, but many of these adaptions just don’t seem to be as effective on screen as they did in pages of a book. I have chosen 5 books which I adored but I hated the film adaption. 1. The Time … Continue reading Five For Friday – The Book was better than The Film
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is the Top Ten Bookish Worlds I’d Want to Live In. I'm hoping I have picked some places that other people haven't, some of them aren't necessarily "worlds" just fictional places I could see myself living in. 1. Middle Earth From JRR Tolkein's Lord … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesdays – Bookish Worlds I Want To Live In
Happy Valentines Day everyone! There will be no mushy mushy lovey dovey nonsense about our loved ones here, just some love for a few of our favourite romance novels. Here is a list of our top five, in no particular order... 1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen "You must allow me to tell you how … Continue reading HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
The Gilded Cage By Vic James Rating *** Synopsis In modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power—and you. If you’re not one of the ultimate one-percenters—the magical elite—you owe them ten years of service. Do those years when you’re old, and you’ll never get through them. Do them young, and you’ll never get … Continue reading Book Review – The Gilded Cage
