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Book Review – The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M Masood

The Bad Muslim Discount is the debut novel from Syed Masood that delves into the lives of two Muslim families that emigrate to California in the 1990s, following them through…

Review: The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale

TW: Domestic Violence and Abuse For many of us throughout lockdown, COVID-19 was the most dangerous thing on our minds. But for many women across the UK, a bigger threat…

The Bloomsbury Effect

The Bloomsbury Group: an eclectic group of innovative creatives, including Virginia Woolf who altered the conservative landscape of the 20th century. Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion at the Charleston…

Review: Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson’s Black Cake is a debut novel that takes readers from the balmy shores of a Caribbean island to England, America, and beyond. When matriarch Eleanor Bennett passes away,…

Has BookTok Saved Reading?

Having read my fair share of “BookTok” books, I will never trust book recommendations from TikTok again. TikTok was launched in 2016, but “BookTok” as a subsection only started to…