Reviews

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is the story of light skinned black identical twins, Stella and Desiree, whose lives end up taking very diffe...

Feminism is about equality, right? But for whom? Mikki Kendall unpacks the reasons why feminism has become a movement which instead of focusing on...

Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan is the story of Ava a 22 year old Irish expat working in a badly paid job as an English teacher for young children ...

October Bookety Club review of Sisters by Daisy JohnsonThis is a story of two teenage sisters, July and September, who are taken to the north ...

Know My Name by Chanel Miller is the memoir from the survivor of the Stanford sexual assault case that created waves in America. Chanel walks us ...

September Bookety Club review of Fake Baby by Amy McDaid⁣⁣This book follows three characters, over nine days, based in Auckland. We follow Jaanvi...

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami was originally published as a novella in Japan in 2008 and 10 years later expanded into a full novel, splittin...

‘How Do We Know We Are Doing It Right?’ by Pandora Sykes, one half of The High Low podcast, debut Non-Fiction novel comprises of eight essays whe...

Pretending by Holly Bourne starts with the main character April and her hatred of men as she tries to deal with her emotions as a victim of sexua...

Know Your Place by Golriz Ghahraman starts with a powerful imagining of who Ghahraman could have been today if her parents had not fled Iran with...

You know that person that your friends are friends with and it just kinda gets to the point where it would be rude if you also didn’t finally bec...

Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens has been a crowd favourite since publication in 2018. This novel is the story of Kya a young girl who is a...