Reviews

Careless by Kirsty Capes

Carless is the story of fifteen-year-old Bess, who we first meet in a kebab shop, in Shepperton, with a positive pregnancy test in hand. Boy, th...

The Girl with the Louding Voice was written for the 130 million young girls out of school because of gender discrimination and poverty. Adunni l...

Anybody who has ever engaged with social media activism, become enraged after reading a snippet of information online, or simply has a social medi...

Ever wondered what it would be like if you took a different path in life? Ended up with someone else, pursued another career, honed another tale...

I whole-heartedly feel that books are here to make us all feel less alone, a sentiment that rang very true while reading The Panic Years. Nell ...

Silver Sparrow is set in 1980’s Atlanta, told in two parts through the eyes of Dana Yarboro and Chaurrise Witherspoon, two ‘half’ sisters, but o...

This book is wild, highly disturbing and utterly addictive. We first meet Natsuki the protagonist and narrator at the age of 10 holidaying at h...

Contrary to its title, this story predominantly centres around Agnes Bain, a glamorous and complex Glaswegian housewife struggling with alcohol ...

This book has left me with a hangover, and no, not the usual Sunday morning kind, but the kind that only a truly magnificent story can leave yo...

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 ...