Category: Review

320 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Netgalley eARC When Lydia wins a scholarship to the exclusive Temple House school for sixth form, she's automatically out of place, a token student, there to make it look as though the school is accepting of students from outside its typical social circles. In art class she meets Victoria, a… Continue reading The Temple House Vanishing ~ Rachel Donohue

320 pages ~ ★★★☆☆ ~ Netgalley eARC Twenty-seven year old Majella lives in a small close knit border town in Northern Ireland; she lives with her ma and works in the local chip shop. Her life is all about routine, at home and at work; she knows what time to expect her regulars and she likes… Continue reading Big Girl, Small Town ~ Michelle Gallen

304 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Netgalley eARC Can You Hear Me? is a new medical memoir written under the pseudonym Jake Jones of the experiences of a UK NHS ambulance paramedic.  Each of the twenty-seven chapter covers a memorable encounter Jake experienced, sometimes as part of an ambulance team but also as a first response… Continue reading Can You Hear Me? ~ Jake Jones

285 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Audiobook   Period. It's About Bloody Time is a book I've heard referenced quite a bit, it does seem bizarre that as something which around half of us experience throughout our lives are seen as a bit of a taboo subject and not something we should be talking about. During… Continue reading Period. It’s About Bloody Time. ~ Emma Barnett

320 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Hardback In a nutshell, The Bookshop Book is a global tour of bookshops and has made me desperate to go and explore which really isn't helping towards my goal of reading through all the unread books I already have!  I am quite guilty of defaulting to Amazon for all my book… Continue reading The Bookshop Book ~ Jen Campbell

415 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Kindle The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper is a historical non-fiction which is a little different to other Jack the Ripper books I've read as the focus for this is the background and lives of the five women rather than their murders. Split… Continue reading The Five ~ Hallie Rubenhold

216 pages ~ ★★★☆☆ ~ Audiobook When Cait announces to her friends that she's thinking of stopping shopping the announcement isn't too out of character, having previously put efforts into getting out of debt and improving her health they're used to her self-improvement experiments; she tracked her progress on her blog and later wrote this… Continue reading The Year of Less ~ Cait Flanders

260 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Netgalley eARC Richard and Leanne have been together for 16 years and married for 7 of them. During the prologue they're viewing a cottage by the sea for a potential purchase, the house needs a lot of work, the previous owners made half an attempt to create an open plan… Continue reading Make Do and Mend a Broken Heart ~ Katey Lovell