Book Reviews

Book Review: The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin

The Princess has every reason to be happy. She’s a princess after all, with a handsome husband, and two beautiful kids, and an enormous castle full of servants ... Read More...

Book Review: Shiver by Allie Reynolds

In the past, Milla, Saskia, Curtis, Dale and Brent are all rising stars of the professional snowboarding world. They’re used to the dangerous, high-stakes natur... Read More...

Book Review: The Once and Future Queen – Secrets of the Starcrossed by Clara O’Connor

A good idea doesn’t ensure a great book. Such is the case with The Once and Future Queen: Secrets of the Starcrossed. Despite the promise of a grand romance, ... Read More...

Book Review: Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic

When we first meet Anya, she is on her way to a holiday in France with her boyfriend of five years, Luke. It should be a happy occasion. It isn’t. From the mome... Read More...

Fiction Preview: 20 books to look forward to reading in 2021

We’re only three weeks into the New Year and January has already delivered some of 2021’s most anticipated reads – from Ashley Audrain’s psychological drama The... Read More...

Book Review: A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan

In A Room Called Earth, the debut novel from Australian writer Madeleine Ryan, we are shown the world through the eyes of an unusual woman (we never learn her n... Read More...

Book Review: Paris By Starlight by Robert Dinsdale

Having been thoroughly enchanted by Robert Dinsdale’s speculative fiction novel The Toymakers in 2018, I excitedly picked up his latest book, Paris by Starlight... Read More...

Book Review: The Last Thing To Burn by Will Dean

In a remote farmhouse in the East Midlands, surrounded by wide, flat, open fields, lives a pig farmer called Lenn. He resides with a woman he calls his wife. A ... Read More...

Book Review: A Thing Called Love by Nell Carter

“This is not a love story” the front cover of this Nell Carter novel warns readers, even before they pick it up and dive right in. Instead, as the title tells... Read More...

Book Review: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

Ready Player Two is the slightly more mature, but no less blinkered, early years teen to Ready Player One’s enthusiastic and nerdy kid who can’t stop giving you... Read More...

8 cosy and heart-warming books to read over Christmas

‘Tis the season for candy canes, cosy knitwear and twinkling light displays. For book lovers, it’s also the season for feel-good festive fiction that leaves you... Read More...

Book Review: People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield

Stories of Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer who stalked East London’s impoverished areas in the late 1800s, have reverberated through the decades... Read More...

Film

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Sing Me A Song Review

Come Away Review

TV

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Music

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Single Review: Andrea – Fighting For

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Books

Book Review: The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin

Book Review: Shiver by Allie Reynolds

Book Review: The Once and Future Queen – Secrets of the Starcrossed by Clara O’Connor

Book Reviews

Book Review: The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin

Book Review: Shiver by Allie Reynolds

Book Review: The Once and Future Queen – Secrets of the Starcrossed by Clara O’Connor

Book Review: Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic

Fiction Preview: 20 books to look forward to reading in 2021

Book Review: A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan

Book Review: Paris By Starlight by Robert Dinsdale

Book Review: The Last Thing To Burn by Will Dean

Book Review: A Thing Called Love by Nell Carter

Book Review: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

8 cosy and heart-warming books to read over Christmas

Book Review: People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield