Tag: Fiction

• People Person

  “Even though he didn’t really know his children, he loved them all the same. Each got twenty per cent of the love he had to offer. No more, no less.”

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  2nd Jun 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  Candice Carty-Williams, Fiction, london, People Person, quick read

• Malibu Rising

  “What binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”

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  26th May 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  Fiction, Historical Fiction, Malibu Rising, quick read, Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Expectation

  “Life is still malleable and full of potential.”

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  17th May 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, Anna Hope, East London, Expectation, Fiction

• A Flaw in the Design

  A nephew. An uncle. A psychopath – but which of them is it?

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  5th May 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  contemporary fiction, Fiction, Thriller, thrillers and mystery

• We Move

  “You only had to wait so long when reading a western story about India to come across a mango, a railway or a spiritual awakening”

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  11th Apr 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  Edinburgh International Book Festival, Fiction, Gurnaik Johal, Serpent's Tail, Short Stories, short story athology

• A Spell of Good Things

  “What is not yours is not yours o, even if you marry the person that has that thing. If it is not yours, it is not yours o.”

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  31st Mar 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  contemporary fiction, Fiction, Nigeria, nigerian literature

• Queen K

  Chalet girl meets Below Deck meets the Talented Mr Ripley meets The Great Gatsby… with some Russian billions thrown into the mix.

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  9th Mar 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  contemporary fiction, debut, Fiction, Thriller, thrillers and mystery

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

  “But maybe you should question the people who taught you this version of God. Because it’s not doing you any favors.”

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  20th Jan 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, Deesha Philyaw, Feminism, Fiction, National Book Award, Short Stories, short story athology, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

•  An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

  “Then, after four, there would be calm, and by five, when the night manager left to do the night’s cash drop, the floor staff would sit on milk crates behind the restaurant, next to the skip, and smoke weed, and though no one offered Sam weed, Sam would sit with them or stand in their…

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  22nd Dec 2022

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Existentialism, Fiction, Paul Dalla Rosa, Serpent's Tail, Short Stories, short story athology

• The Silver Cage

  “Love is a cage two people build around themselves.”

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  11th Nov 2022

  Book Review: Fiction

  Fiction, LGBTQ+, mystery, romance