Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
FRIDAY FAVE ~ HARLEM SHUFFLE Colson Whitehead is a global literary icon. Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes & a US National Book Award, he is best known for The Underground Railroad
The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews
THE LEVIATHAN Reading the first few pages of this book was utterly disconcerting. It was as if a mist descended around me, as if I could smell and sense the surroundings of England
The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas & Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
BIBLIO RECCS People are we in for a treat today, gracing our page we have none other than @holliepoetry as our guest recommender. A best selling author, poet, activist an
Empire Of The Vampire by Jay Kristoff
EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE When I received this advance proof from @harpervoyager_uk I was beyond excited. Vampires, nuns, the grail: SIGN. ME. UP. I would die for a screen ad
Matrix by Lauren Groff
MATRIX Oh. My. Days. Historical Fiction fans, I am sounding the klaxon. Author Lauren Groff is award winning and Matrix, her latest book, published a few weeks ago, is notching up
The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT An ultimate Friday Favourite. Hilary Mantel was the very first author that we connected over. It was that frisson of excitement when you find a kindred spi
Still Life by Sarah Winman
STILL LIFE This book, this book, THIS. BOOK. One of us was in, hook, line and sinker from the very first sentence. The other took a little bit more time to fall in love with it but
The Women Of Troy by Pat Barker
THE WOMEN OF TROY Definitely one of the books we were most excited to receive all year — we were both *desperate* for this one — and my oh my, our proof and finished hardback a
Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
(ULTIMATE) FRIDAY FAVOURITE I have previously written about Wolf Hall, meeting and watching Mantel’s plays with the author herself and how our love of these books brought Sophi
Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
Wolf Den Let me state at the outset that this book was a DAMN triumph. I feigned a headache so I could cancel plans to finish this book kind of excellent. There is so much cl
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
NEW RELEASE A debut novel by @sarah_penner_author published in the UK in March, this is a book I have seen constantly both in the press and on #bookstagram feat
The Revolt by Clara Dupont-Monod
PAPERBACK REVIEW This is an astonishing read, pure epic medieval historical fiction bursting at the seams with love, war and political subterfuge. Dupont Monod achieves more in und