Review: Mad About the Boy- Helen Fielding

    She taught us that sliding down a fire station pole in a skirt is never a good thing, vodka and Chaka Khan is the way forward in times of crisis and… Continue reading →

Review: A beautiful rework of a Russian fairy tale

“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among… Continue reading →

Review: Trumpet- Jackie Kay

I’ve dug this review out from second year of uni, the first book review I had ever written in fact, n’awww. Trumpet by Jackie Kay deserves more recognition than it gets in the book world,… Continue reading →

Review: Bitter, harrowing and very different to Harry Potter… I love it.

I just want to thank everyone who has recently liked and commented on/followed my blog. It was a lovely surprise to come on here to find so many interesting and warm comments made… Continue reading →

Review: The Woman in Black- Susan Hill

As usual whenever I see the advert for a film that looks amazing I rush out to buy the book and read that first. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill is a gripping,… Continue reading →

The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, by Ezra Pound

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with… Continue reading →

Eat, Pray, Love

”I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you… Continue reading →

Franz Kafka

”We need the books that affect us like disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a… Continue reading →