I know it may be a little early but there are so many amazing books, amazing editions of books, coming out this season and I want to share with you the ones I'm most looking forward to (and some oldies I would just really like for Christmas)! 1. The new special-edition hardback Agatha Christies Harper … Continue reading Books on my Christmas List 2018
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I bought and got given a load of books over the last month or so so I wanted to share them with you! I spoke about Children's and YA books in Part One and now it's time for adult books: Six Against The Yard by members of The Detection Club I read Floating Admiral, the Detection … Continue reading Autumn Book Haul // Part Two – Adult Fiction & Poetry
It occurred to me that I've bought and been given quite a few books over the past month or so and so I thought I'd share them with you! Starting off with children's and young adult books: The Lizsts by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Julia Sarda I found this when re-alphabetising the shelves in the … Continue reading Autumn Book Haul // Part One – Children’s and YA
I don't read YA really, at all. However I got given a proof copy of What If It's Us at the BA Conference a couple of weeks ago and then found out a couple of days ago that it's coming out on the 18th October and thought, how cool would it be to read a … Continue reading What If It’s Us – Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
#CrickLitFest is over for another year. What a crazy, tiring, inspiring, amazing nine days that was. I met some great speakers: authors, poets, comedians, musicians. I was pretty restrained with my book purchasing however and only got 4 books over the festival! For me, the festival kicked off with the amazing Paul Henry & Brian … Continue reading Crickhowell Literary Festival 2018 Wrap Up
I've decided to join in with #spookathon this year! Spookathon is a readathon hosted by BooksandLala, running between the 15th and 21st October where you read spooky books to fit these five challenges: 1. Read a thriller 2. Read a book with purple on the cover 3. Read a book not set in the current … Continue reading Spookathon TBR
I went to the BA Conference in Aston last weekend and thought you might like to see what we got up to! Here's a sneak-peek of the "book bus" which came in very useful when transporting all our goodies home! First up was the Gardners Tradeshow where publishers shared with us what they were … Continue reading I went to the Booksellers Association Conference 2018 and here are some photos
Here's a wrap up of what I read in the second half of August 2018 - find part I here. Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman **** I've been wanting to read this one for a while, I guess just not enough to get around to it before now. Written from the … Continue reading August Wrap-Up – Part II
Here's a wrap-up of the books I've read so far this month: The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club: ***** I picked this up in a charity shop for £1 back in April (I'm always looking for Agatha Christies) and loved the idea of this mystery story with each chapter written by a different … Continue reading August Wrap-up – Part I
We went to get Max's holiday snaps developed (because we're either like 70 or total hipsters?) and while we were waiting I managed to drag him into almost every charity shop in town! The end result: A good haul. I got: Books to Die For - Declan Burke and John Connolly The Luminaries - Eleanor … Continue reading Charity Shop Book Haul
