July reads: 8 of the best new books published this month

July might have got off to a stormy start weather wise, but the publishing calendar…

Ellen Alpsten on The Tsarina’s Daughter: A People’s Princess

Never before has there been so much interest in female power, be it historically, or…

Book Review: Reputation by Lex Croucher

It feels strange to use the words Gossip Girl and Jane Austen in the same…

From magical middle grade to romantic coming-of-age tales: the best children’s and YA books to read this summer

Last month we shared our must-read adult fiction books for this summer. Now we’re taking…

Book Review: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

We arrive in the fictional town of Old Ox, Georgia, just after the Civil War…

Read an extract from This Shining Life by Harriet Kline

This Shining Life is about love and grief, how it can tear a family apart…

Book Review: Cows Can’t Jump by Philip Bowne

If faith is taking the first step even if you can’t see the staircase, then…

Book Review: The Cruelest Mercy by Natalie Mae

Second books, especially within a series, can often be tricky things, and for every second…

Book Review: Blackout – a series of love stories by six of YA fiction’s biggest authors

Blackout is a delightful, sprawling, warm and funny YA novel from six authors: Dhonielle Clayton,…

Book Review: That Weekend by Kara Thomas

Kara Thomas’ That Weekend is a lot of things. It’s creepy, gripping, tense from start…

Book Review: Someone I Used To Know by Paige Toon

With 16 published contemporary adult fiction novels to her name – not to mention several…

Book Review: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

Lionel, making his first tentative steps back into the world after a suicide attempt, attends…