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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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A book for today ✨ ‘Bringing order to the wildern A book for today ✨ ‘Bringing order to the wilderness inside our heads’. Curiously beautiful and unique, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig is that rare thing, a book you didn’t know you needed but one destined to bag a lifelong space on your bookshelf. A dictionary in six parts, Koenig’s labour of love is a compendium of new words for emotions. Woven from fragments of a hundred different languages, these are words that give expression to those thoughts and feelings that hover ‘on the cusp of language’. In the vein of established words like ‘schadenfreude’ and ‘hygge’, they convey the universal experiences that we cannot adequately articulate alone. See link in bio for our review. | 📷 @dictionaryofobscuresorrows | #Bookstoker #beautifulbooks #beautifulwords #bookoftheday #bookswelove #johnkoenig #logophile #thedictionaryofobscuresorrows #wordywednesday
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