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Month: July 2025

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
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Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

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  • July 31, 2025

This book calls out our generation hard! Confronting in a good way, it peaks into the world of creatives who move from city to city, digital nomad style, and who…

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Tilt by Emma Pattee
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Tilt by Emma Pattee

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  • July 28, 2025

I love a debut novel that focuses on one intense day like this. Interspersed with some interesting flashbacks, we are basically in the head of Annie, who is heavily pregnant,…

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The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
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The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

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  • July 22, 2025

I feel a sense of inadequacy when it comes to reviewing this as it’s just such an intense, violent, visceral, but also hypnotic and compelling book. Lilith is a slave…

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The Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell
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The Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell

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  • July 21, 2025

I loved reading this: I feel like well-paced thrillers are my summer jam. Imagine a boring London suburb with boring roadworks. Now, add some curtain twitching, infidelity, divorce, fear, and…

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A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton
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 A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton

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  • July 21, 2025

Ever heard of the glass delusion – the established fear of being made of glass? Did you know that before glass was commonplace, people used to think they were made…

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glorious exploits by ferdia lenon
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Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

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  • July 16, 2025

This is a recent debut novel from Irish writer, Ferdia Lennon, and it deservedly caused a stir! It’s a punchy, humorous, but also, gruesome and devastating telling of what happened…

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Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
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Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg

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  • July 16, 2025

Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991): Anti-fascist writer Natalia Ginzburg is everywhere at the minute: it’s great to see her work getting recognition as more of her work is being translated. This slim…

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The Hidden Room by Stella Duffy
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The Hidden Room by Stella Duffy

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  • July 16, 2025

This one was an easy read, a thriller set in the Fens where a couple running busy lives and three children must confront a dark secret from one of their…

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She speaks
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She Speaks! What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said by Harriet Walter

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  • July 10, 2025

Walter is an experienced actor and it’s interesting to hear her take on some of the Shakespeare parts that she’s played herself. Actor’s Shakespeare This is a practical and not…

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Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
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Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

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  • July 9, 2025

This is a beautiful book with a powerful message about Northern Irish culture. This novel paints a haunting picture of a fractured community through the eye’s of a brave young…

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