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  • Tangerine by Christine Mangan (2018)

    Tangerine is one of those novels that got quite a lot of hype when it first came out, and again when it was released in paperback. This usually means that I would avoid it for fear of disappointment/conventionality, but the premise of this one really intrigued me. Ostensibly it’s a story about two friends, separated […]

    Lizzi

    June 21, 2019
    Fiction, Reviews
    2018, Abacus, Book review, Christine Mangan, Fiction, Little Brown, Paperback, Tangerine
  • Catching up on reviews…

    I don’t often do multiple reviews in one post, but, as I mentioned here, I am a bit behind with reviews, including a couple of books I read several months ago, so this time around it’s easier to put a few together in one post. Let me know what you think! Little by Edward Carey […]

    Lizzi

    June 18, 2019
    Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews
    Biography, Brunhilde Pomsel, Edward Carey, Fiction, Graphic novel, Historical Ficiton, Historical fiction, Kate Mosse, Ken Krimstein, Little, Memoir, Non Fiction, Ophelia Field, Paperback, The Burning Chambers, The Favourite, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, The Work I Did, World War II
  • The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams (2018)

    I think I was initially drawn to this book because of the William Morrow hardback cover on GoodReads – it makes The Summer Wives look like a glamorous and mysterious society tale, which, in a way, it is. But I have to say that when I actually got round to reading it, The Summer Wives […]

    Lizzi

    June 7, 2019
    Fiction, Reviews
    2018, Beatriz Williams, Fiction, Harper Collins, Paperback, The Summer Wives, William Morrow
  • An update – May 2019

    Hello dear readers! As I mentioned in my first post of the year, I’m pregnant and this is taking up pretty much all of my time and energy at the moment, so I’ve haven’t posted since March… but I am going on maternity leave at the end of May so I will have some time […]

    Lizzi

    May 22, 2019
    Comment, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Personal
    Beatriz Williams, Blogging, Claudia Rowe, Edward Carey, Fiction, Hollie de Cruz, JRR Tolkien, Kate Mosse, Ken Krimstein, Little, Lyndall Gordon, Non Fiction, Ophelia Field, Outsiders, Personal, Reviews, The Burning Chambers, The Favourite, The Hobbit, The Spider and the Fly, The Summer Wives, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, Update, Your Baby Your Birth
  • No Place to Lay One’s Head by Françoise Frenkel (1945), trans. Stephanie Smee

    I came across Bookish Beck’s review of No Place to Lay One’s Head last month and knew I just had to read it. It is the memoir of Françoise Frenkel, a Jewish woman from Poland who opened the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, in 1921. She had studied in France, and when on a visit […]

    Lizzi

    March 17, 2019
    Non-Fiction, Reviews
    2018, A Woman in Berlin, Francoise Frenkel, Gone to Ground, Memoir, No Place to Lay One’s Head, Non Fiction, Paperback, Pushkin Press, World War II
  • She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor (2011)

    She-Wolves was one of those books that I had heard about for ages, and kept meaning to read, but for some reason never got around to – laziness, too many other books to read, a million reasons. So I decided to put it on my wish list for Christmas and birthday books last year, and […]

    Lizzi

    March 10, 2019
    Non-Fiction, Reviews
    2011, Eleanor of Aquitane, Elizabeth I, English History, Faber & Faber, Helen Castor, History, Isabella of France, Margaret of Anjou, Matilda, Medieval, Monarchy, Non Fiction, Paperback, She-Wolves
  • Back again for 2019!

    Hello dear readers! As you may have noticed, I have been very quiet on here recently, but I am glad to say that I am now back for 2019. My last posts in November 2018 were about the Young Writer of the Year Award, for which I was on the shadow panel. I kept meaning […]

    Lizzi

    January 31, 2019
    Comment, Personal
    2019, Alicia Drake, Beatriz Williams, Blood Water Paint, Donna Tartt, Helen Castor, I Love You Too Much, Joy McCullough, She-Wolves, The Summer Wives, Young Writer of the Year Award
  • Shadow winner for The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer Of The Year Award, in association with The University of Warwick announced!

    As you may have read on Twitter, on the award website, and my fellow shadow panel member’s blogs, our winner for the Young Writer of the Year Award has been announced! And the winner is… The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar! I reviewed the book here, and I have to say I […]

    Lizzi

    November 29, 2018
    Events, Fiction, Reviews
    #YoungWriterAwardShadow, 2018, Fiction, Hardback, Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Young Writer of the Year Award
  • Elmet by Fiona Mozley (2017) – shortlisted for The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer Of The Year Award, in association with The University of Warwick

    Elmet has been nominated for a lot of awards, most famously the Man Booker Prize in 2017, but I have to admit I hadn’t heard of it before it came to me as part of the shortlist for the Young Writer of the Year Award 2018. Once I started reading I wasn’t surprised that it […]

    Lizzi

    November 28, 2018
    Fiction, Reviews
    #YoungWriterAwardShadow, 2017, Elmet, Fiction, Fiona Mozley, Paperback, Review copy, Young Writer of the Year Award
  • The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (2018) – shortlisted for The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer Of The Year Award, in association with The University of Warwick

    The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock continues the trend of historical novels that are filled with rich detail, the glamour and grunge of the city, and a vivid cast of characters. This novel also brings in a slightly fantastical element with the mermaid, which I think makes it a bit more original than some other novels […]

    Lizzi

    November 27, 2018
    Fiction, Reviews
    2018, Fiction, Hardback, Harvill Secker, Historical fiction, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Penguin, Review copy, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Young Writer of the Year Award
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