Category: Book Review: Fiction

• The Testaments

  “You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”

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  20th Dec 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, booker prize, Booker Prize Longlist, booker prize winner, Feminism, Fiction, Margaret Atwood, Modern Classics, Sci-fi, The Testaments

• A Dish Best Served Cold

  By Megan Thomas I reviewed this for the December edition of Buzz Magazine in the Book of the Month slot, which you can get for free all over South Wales now. I must admit that I went into reading it a little sceptical – it was like the crime/thriller equivalent of naming a romance novel…

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  8th Dec 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  a dish best served cold, Buzz Magazine, Chris Kinsey, crime, Fiction, Welsh literature

• The Handmaid’s Tale

  “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

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  29th Nov 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, booker prize, Feminism, Fiction, Film & TV Tie In, Margaret Atwood, Modern Classics, Sci-fi, the handmaid's tale, TV Adaption, TV Movie and Game Adaptations

• Palm Sized Press: Volume 1

  Palm Sized Press is an independent press and online flash fiction writing community and this is volume one of their flash fiction anthology.

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  29th Nov 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  Anthology, Fiction, flash fiction, microfiction, Non-fiction, Palm Sized Press, quick read, Short Stories

• The Canterville Ghost

  “It is very wrong to kill any one.” “Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!”

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  8th Nov 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  Classic, ghost, ghost fiction, ghost stories, Ghostly Stories, Oscar Wilde, quick read, Short Stories, short story, The Canterville Ghost

• Ghostly Stories

  Two ghost stories from the often-underrated voice of Celia Fremlin

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  31st Oct 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  Anthology, Celia Fremlin, ghost, ghost fiction, ghost stories, Ghostly Stories, horror, quick read, Short Stories

• Conversations With Friends

  “You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.”

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  4th Oct 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, conversations with friends, Faber, Fiction, Irish Literature, Sally Rooney, Sunday Times, Sunday Times University of Warwick Young Writers Award

• The Drover’s Wives

  Ryan O’Neill’s 101 retellings of the Australian classic short story, The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson.

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  24th Sep 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  Anthology, Australia, Australian Fiction, Classic, Fiction, henry lawson, Independent Publisher, ryan o'neill, Short Stories, the drover's wife, the drover's wives

• Heartburn

  “That’s the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there’s something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves minor atrocities on both sides to a nice, neat, simple one where one person has done something so horrible and unforgivable that the other person is immediately absolved of all the…

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  16th Sep 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, Book of the Month, Fiction, heartburn, Nora Ephron, quick read

• My Sister, The Serial Killer

  “Ayoola summons me with these words—Korede, I killed him.”

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  8th Sep 2019

  Book Review: Fiction, Booker Prize 2019

  booker prize, Fiction, my sister the serial killer, Nigeria, nigerian literature, Oyinkan Braithwaite, quick read, women's prize for fiction