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Review | A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
Read more: Review | A Feast for Crows by George R.R. MartinTitle: A Feast for Crows (2005) Author: George R.R. Martin Publisher: Harper Voyager Read: 19th April – 3rd May 2017 Genre: fantasy Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars In this fourth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, the sheer weight of political machinations and the implications of several key deaths in Westeros slowly begin to take their toll on the…
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Review | American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Read more: Review | American Gods by Neil GaimanTitle: American Gods (2001) Author: Neil Gaiman Publisher: Headline Read: 4th – 10th May 2017 Genre: fantasy; mythology; urban fantasy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars In this wacky and wonderful book, Neil Gaiman draws on a wealth of cultures and mythologies in order to create an engrossing and bizarrely original take on the gods of old. Utterly fantastical and surreal,…
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Review | The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Read more: Review | The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussTitle: The Name of the Wind (2007) Author: Patrick Rothfuss Publisher: Gollancz Read: 7th – 15th April 2017 Genre: fantasy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind is the first book in the evocatively named The Kingkiller Chronicles, a sure-to-be-epic fantasy series which mimics the storytelling tradition of oral myths and legends. Framed through the device…
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Review | Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Read more: Review | Hard Times by Charles DickensTitle: Hard Times (1854) Author: Charles Dickens Read: 29th March- 4th April Genre: classic Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars Published in 1854, Hard Times is one of Charles Dickens’ shortest novels and presents a pretty damning indictment of mid 19th-century industrial society, taking a swipe at the social and political philosophies of Bentham and Mill, but ultimately failing to deliver…
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Review | The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
Read more: Review | The Song Rising by Samantha ShannonTitle: The Song Rising (2017) Author: Samantha Shannon Read: 19th – 25th February Genre: fantasy; dystopian Rating: 4 out of 5 stars The third book in Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season series, The Song Rising sees Paige and her not-so-merry band of clairvoyants venture outside of the Scion-controlled environs of London’s streets and into a much darker and deadlier world. The…
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Review | Wishing for Birds by Elisabeth Hewer
Read more: Review | Wishing for Birds by Elisabeth HewerTitle: Wishing for Birds (2016) Author: Elisabeth Hewer Read: 21st January 2017 Genre: poetry Rating: 5 out of 5 stars In this breath-takingly beautiful debut collection, Elisabeth Hewer displays a sense of lyricism and astuteness that make her poetry sing. “Rebellion sits well on you like a red coat or the gilt gold burnish of youth” Collecting together sixty…
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Review | The Tearling Trilogy by Erika Johansen
Read more: Review | The Tearling Trilogy by Erika JohansenTitle: The Tearling trilogy: The Queen of the Tearling (2014) The Invasion of the Tearling (2015) The Fate of the Tearling (2016) Author: Erika Johansen Read: 1st-6th Feb | 6th-11th Feb | 11th-19th Feb Genre: fantasy; dystopian; young-adult Rating: 5/5 | 4/5 | 3.75/5 Spanning three books, Erika Johansen’s Tearling trilogy tells the story of Kelsea Glynn,…
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Review | We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Read more: Review | We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieTitle: We Should All Be Feminists (2014) Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read: 24th-26th February 2017 Genre: non-fiction; feminism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars We Should All Be Feminists is a short, adapted essay of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx talk on the subject of twenty-first century feminism, gender, sexuality, and her own experiences as a Nigerian woman, that…
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Review | Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Read more: Review | Norse Mythology by Neil GaimanTitle: Norse Mythology (2017) Author: Neil Gaiman Read: 12th-13th February 2017 Genre: retellings; short stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Norse Mythology is a short-story collection that charts the many weird and wonderful stories that make up Scandinavian folklore and mythology, featuring well-know deities such as Odin, Thor, and Loki. The influence of Norse mythology on Gaiman’s work is…
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Review | Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham
Read more: Review | Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren GrahamTitle: Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls and Everything in Between (2016) Author: Lauren Graham Read: 21st January 2017 Genre: non-fiction; memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars No one can deny that Lauren Graham’s Talking As Fast As I Can was released at the perfect time for maximum exposure; with Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival premiering in the…
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