A trend which is on the rise, and which I am rather happy about, is book subscription boxes. I have no idea where the subscription box trend started – was it Sephora? Birchbox? Those are the first I remember hearing about, for make-up, giving people an affordable way to try out products that were usually … Continue reading BOOK SUBSCRIPTION BOX: Book Box Club
Ever since I was a child, I have loved books. Reading them, buying them, just being around them. That’s why I did an English degree. I had idle dreams of owning a bookshop, or of being a librarian, or being an author, because my naïve mind had no concept of the publishing industry at that … Continue reading BLOG: Working, Writing and Camp NaNo
Author: Cara Delevigne (twitter / website) UK Publisher: Trapeze Genre: Young Adult, Realism, Coming of Age story Buy Now: ebook | hardcover | paperback First and foremost, I would like to warn that this review contains spoilers regarding the plot of the novel. This is partly because I feel that some of the material within this book … Continue reading REVIEW: Mirror Mirror – Cara Delevingne
Author: Juno Dawson (twitter / website) UK Publisher: Two Roads Genre: Non-fiction, autobiography, gender studies Buy Now: ebook | hardcover | paperback I was lucky enough to find this book as a proof going spare whilst I was interning last summer. It was not necessarily a book I would have bought myself, but I have … Continue reading REVIEW: The Gender Games – Juno Dawson
Author: Connie Willis (website) UK Publisher: Gollancz Genre: Sci-fi, romance Buy Now: ebook | paperback Briddey is about to get exactly what she thinks she wants . . . Briddey is a high-powered exec in the mobile phone industry, overseeing new products from concept ('anything to beat the new apple phone') to delivery. And she works with … Continue reading REVIEW: Crosstalk – Connie Willis
Author: R.F. Kuang (website / twitter) UK Publisher: Harper Voyager Genre: Fantasy, historical fiction (ish) Buy Now: ebook | hardback | paperback (out 18th Oct 2018) I stumbled across this book when I saw review copies being offered on twitter. The cover was so beautiful, I immediately leapt on it, but was only able to get a digital … Continue reading REVIEW: The Poppy War – R.F. Kuang
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