Posts tagged book

“People think big ideas suddenly appear on their own, but they’re actually the product of many small, intersecting moments and realisations that move us toward …

I have to admit, when I opened this book I expected to be greeted by a collection of beautifully woven, gentle, precise stories. But I …

When I started to listen to Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things, I thought it was a bit sad as I was expecting something to the likes …

To the unappreciative and disinterested eye, Anywhere’s Better Than Here might be just another work of modern Chick Lit – lining up to be drowned …

It is every weird girl’s most decadent fantasy – being carried off by the Prince of Darkness and fed caviar in banyas; hunting firebirds with …

When Stephen King thinks your novel is “genuinely scary” you must be doing something right. Author of five previous novels, Alice Thompson’s sixth – Burnt …

My belly and whole is being warmed by a Languedoc Viognier – peach, honeysuckle, perfect body – as I sit down to write a review …

The first time I saw The Shipping Man it was lying on a shipbroker’s bed and I had only recently discovered what a shipbroker was. …

It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be was a book which I happened to stumble across in Urban Outfitters and …

Fifty Shades of Grey is, without doubt, one of the worst books I have ever read. After throwing it in the bin, ‘my subconscious told …