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Welcome to Bookstoker!

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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Spanish Reads 🇪🇸 We cannot recommend this Spanish Spanish Reads 🇪🇸 We cannot recommend this Spanish classic highly enough. The House of Ulloa is funny, progressive and colourful, written by the feisty and daring Emilia Pardo Bazán in 1886 and, luckily, recently reissued in English. We meet the gentle, devout chaplain, Julián, who’s been asked by Don Manuel, a prominent nobleman, to clean up the sinful House of Ulloa, the country estate of his unruly nephew, Don Pedro. This hilarious meeting of polar opposites takes place amidst magnificently described Galician landscapes and decrepit aristocratic homes. See link in bio for our review | @penguinclassics | #Bookstoker 

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