I like to read a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, both physical and e-books.
Here are my blog posts about books and reading:
Book Reviews – Fiction
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Our House by Louise Candlish
XX by Angela Chadwick
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke
The Other Things by Jonathan Dransfield
Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. by Malcolm Duffy
Inheritance by Jenny Eclair
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror by Natasha Farrant, illustrated by Lydia Corry
House of Glass by Susan Fletcher
Timothy Mean and the Time Machine by William A E Ford
The Temp by Michelle Frances
Five Days of Fog by Anna Freeman
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Paper Towns by John Green
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
A Different Time by Michael K Hill [Write Reads blog tour]
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
The Rumour by Lesley Kara
The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
Friend Request by Laura Marshall
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Light Keeper by Cole Moreton
The Girl Next Door by Phoebe Morgan
Train Man by Andrew Mulligan
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry
In the Sun by Mixie Plum
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J K Rowling
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay by J K Rowling
The Exploding Book by Mike Russell
Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
After the Green Withered by Kristin Ward [first chapter review – Write Reads blog tour]
The Food of the Gods by H G Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Way Inn by Will Wiles
Much Obliged, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Book Reviews – Non-Fiction
James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes by James Acaster
Unicorn: the Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
What the Hell Just Happened?! by Richy K. Chandler
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
Timekeepers by Simon Garfield
Eat, Drink, Run by Bryony Gordon
Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story by Leah Hazard
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Aunt Branwell and the Brontë Legacy by Nick Holland
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Eric Idle
Women in Sport: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky
Defeating the Ministers of Death by David Isaacs
Into the Fire: My Life as a London Firefighter by Edric Kennedy-Macfoy
Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants by Richard Mabey
Mail Obsession: A Journey Round Britain by Postcode by Mark Mason
Critical by Matt Morgan
The Story of NOW That’s What I Call Music in 100 Artists by Michael Mulligan
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O’Farrell
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Don’t Need the Sunshine by John Osborne
Don’t Look Back in Anger by Daniel Rachel
Step by Step: The Life in My Journeys by Simon Reeve
Strangeways: A Prison Officer’s Story by Neil Samworth
Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
Reading
It’s my 30th birthday! Here are my top 30 books…
A long time ago in a library far away: 6 weeks of summer reading magic
Money, sex, death and… sunshine [the poetry of Philip Larkin]
Poetry is all around us [written on National Poetry Day 2018]
This book seems familiar! Have I read it before? Let me check the spreadsheet…
The 5 themes of Roald Dahl [in honour of Roald Dahl Day 2018]
Cats, cats and more cats: 5 books from my early years
‘DNF guilt’ – 3 books I did not finish and why
Pineapples and toilets: Weird books from my shelf
10 writers I’d love to have coffee with
Fictional presents I’ll never get for Christmas
5 books which are literally about hearts: an alternative Valentine’s Day post
My mum’s favourite books [a Mother’s Day post]
Elmer is 30! [Elmer Day 2019]
Spaceship, sieve, peach? Fictional transport
Pumpkins, portkeys and polar bears: Fictional transport again
The time-travelling bookworm series: adventures into my reading past! Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5
The time travelling bookworm: rebooted series! Voyage in the Dark, The Yearbook,
The recommended authors series: Daphne du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Sue Townsend, David Wiesner, Terry Pratchett, J K Rowling
The character of the month series: Lucy Snowe, Moist von Lipwig, Mr Darcy, Harry Potter, Beth March,
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