Like with most stories that start with a twenty-something London-based office worker navigating the breakdown of a long-term relationship, your mind settles in for a harmless piece of Chick-Lit. And then Caroline O'Donoghue's Promising Young Women knocks you off-centre by turning into something else entirely. The praise on the book's sleeve repeatedly uses the word "gothic."…
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Favourite Reads of 2018 So Far
Somehow, we're already over half-way through 2018 and as the summer holidays approach I've had lots of people asking me what books they should read on holiday. So for this blog, I thought I'd try and pick my five favourite books from the first half of 2018, whether or not you fancy reading them on…
Broadening my Book-Buying Horizons
I like a lot of things about Amazon. It's fast, generally reliable and it almost always has what I'm looking for. What I don't like is that it means I never physically buy books in shops, especially independent ones. So for 2018, you might remember, I set a resolution to buy books from anywhere but…