Articles on Books and Reading
Best and worst publishing trends / Famous fictional hats / Fictional dates from hell! / Fictional holidays from hell! / How I write book reviews / Memoirs vs. biographies / The 10 types of book reviewer / Who will you invite to your fictional party? / What are ‘classic’ books? / What is a bestseller? / What is ‘literary fiction’ anyway? / What is a thriller? / Why do I read so much? / Why I re-read books
For articles on screen adaptations of books, go to the Film and TV page.
Book Reviews
I have reviewed over 700 books on this blog! Way too many to list, so here are reviews of some recommended reads:
Fiction:
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott / Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen / The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury / Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë / The Other Side of the Sky by Arthur C Clarke / The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue, The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier / Out There: Stories by Kate Folk / The Matchmaker by Stella Gibbons / The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson / Who Did You Tell? by Lesley Kara / The Sick Rose by Erin Kelly / Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes / The Shining by Stephen King / Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell / Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake / The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike / The Witches Trilogy by Terry Pratchett / The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin / Railhead by Philip Reeve / The Speed of the Dark by Alex Shearer / The Last Man by Mary Shelley / The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend / The Image of Her by Sonia Velton / The Time Machine by H G Wells, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde / The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham / We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Non-Fiction:
Unicorn: the Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi / The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee / The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte / We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor’s Story by Paul Burston / The End of the Road by Jack Cooke / Look Up: Our Story with the Stars by Sarah Cruddas / Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn / In Miniature by Simon Garfield / The Wager by David Grann / Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham / Tunnel 29 by Helena Merriman / Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik / Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan / Seashaken Houses by Tom Nancollas / I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O’Farrell / The Library Book by Susan Orlean / Ghostland by Edward Parnell / Limitless by Tim Peake / Journeys to Impossible Places by Simon Reeve / The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts / The Theory of Everything Else by Dan Schreiber / The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair / Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
For reviews of music memoirs, biographies and history, go to the Music page.
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