If you're anything like me, lockdown is likely to be taking its toll on your mental wellbeing. For me, being stuck inside, with little to no access to family and friends is extremely difficult, while having all my future plans cancelled is somewhat excruciating. I'm counting down the days until I can drink warm cider [...]
Synopsis:Alicia Berenson lived a seemingly perfect life until one day six years ago. When she shot her husband in the head five times. Since then she hasn't spoken a single word. It's time to find out why... Wow, talk about a thrilling and surprising book - what a rollercoaster of a read! I've read a lot [...]
Synopsis: ‘Julia, it’s me. I need you to call me back. Please, Julia. It’s important . . .’In the last days before her death, Nel Abbott called her sister.Jules didn’t pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help.Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one [...]
October was my best reading month so far this year. I managed to finish eight books (or 2336 pages, according to Goodreads) which has, alongside a second national lockdown, inspired me to increase my Reading Challenge target to 52 books for the year. Having completed so many great books, I felt it was the perfect [...]
Synopsis: Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle-class peers. After a messy breakup from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places [...]
Synopsis:Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective anymore.With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds [...]
Synopsis:Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessness; like we're somehow failing to live our best life. What does doing it right even look like? And why do so many women feel like [...]
Synopsis: Ageing and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. When she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top [...]
Synopsis:The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the [...]
Synopsis: This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told. From the top of the country to the bottom, across more than a century of change and growth and struggle and life, Girl, Woman, Other follows twelve very different characters on an entwined journey of discovery.It is future, [...]
