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We’re here to help you find that book that you can’t put down, the book you’ll push on all your friends, the book that’ll change your life.

We read literary fiction, non-fiction, classics and children’s books, all genres and styles embraced in our aim to share the love. You’ll also find fabulous Bookstagrams and literary news.

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Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda La Grange

Endearing memoir that falls short of full potential

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Blood River – A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher

Gripping tale about a journalist's trip down the Congo river

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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

A success, and enjoyable in its own right, but a disappointing Pulitzer

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January reads 🩵 A dip into our winter archives has January reads 🩵 A dip into our winter archives has unearthed Philip Larkin’s quiet, sad, and often beautiful 1947 novel. 

A Girl in Winter tells the story of twenty-something librarian, Katherine Lind, a wartime refugee living in an unnamed English provincial town. In this 1940’s England of glazed brick taverns and chilly black-out-curtained bedsits, Katherine reflects on love, otherness, and loss of innocence. See link in bio for our review | Gorgeous book cover by Holly Ovenden @hollydrawsinink | @faberbooks | #Bookstoker 

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