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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

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It’s great to see Lush by Rochelle Dowden-Lord on It’s great to see Lush by Rochelle Dowden-Lord on the Debut Fiction Award Shortlist for the Nero Book Awards 2025 👏🏻 | See link in bio for our review | @rochelledowdenlord @serpentstail | #Bookstoker A tale of secrets, temptation and eyebrow-raising excess, the premise of Lush is deliciously intriguing: the elderly and charismatic owner of a French vineyard extends a wine-tasting invitation to four well-known figures from the industry. At the end of their stay, his guests will be rewarded with a sup from the last remaining bottle of one of the rarest and most valuable wines in the world. A hedonistic unravelling follows in a suitably potent commentary on ambition, prejudice and our cultural relationship with alcohol. #bookclubreads #bookrecs #debutnovel #lush #nerobookawards #readthisbook #rochelledowdenlord #serpentstail #whattoreadnext
We’re delighted to see The Expansion Project by Be We’re delighted to see The Expansion Project by Ben Pester on the Debut Fiction Award Shortlist for the Nero Book Awards 2025 👏🏻 | See link in bio for our review | 📷 @grantabooks | #Bookstoker Tom Crowley probably wouldn’t describe himself as a careerist but he certainly puts in the hours. His workplace is the (literally) rapidly expanding Capmeadow Business Park, where his job description somewhat vaguely encompasses office briefs and content strategy. He’s also a husband and father, and suspects he’s inadequate at both. In The Expansion Project, we enter a Kafkaesque horror story, beginning the day that Tom takes his 8-year-old daughter, Hen, into Capmeadow and loses her (or believes he does) in its labyrinthine interiors. In a surreal corporate dystopia, Tom’s work-life balance goes seriously and sinisterly awry. #benpester #bookclubreads #bookrecs #debutnovel #grantabooks #litfic #nerobookawards #readthisbook #theexpansionproject #whattoreadnext
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