Kill Your Darlings is a sharp and psychologically charged domestic thriller that asks: what if the person closest to you used your darkest secrets as inspiration for a murder novel?
Starting at the end and ending at the beginning we uncover the years chapter by chapter. Set in Goose Neck in New Essex, the story begins with a seemingly innocent dinner party, which results in the first time Wendy considers killing her husband. After decades of slow marital decay, Wendy and Thom are shadows of the couple who first kissed in Georgetown 40 years ago.
Then Thom announces he’... View Full Review
Whether you’re a devoted reader or a writer yourself, What Writers Read is a literary treasure trove. a beautifully curated collection of essays, reflections, and personal favourites from a cast of celebrated contemporary authors, gathered and introduced by the always insightful Pandora Sykes.
Drawing from her deep love of literature and her talent for conversation (fans of her podcast The High Low or Book Chat will know), Sykes invites over 30 writers including Raven Leilani, Dolly Alderton, Elif Shafak, and David Nicholls to share the books that have shaped them. Driven them. Made them.
The result is ... View Full Review
In Girl on Girl, Sophie Gilbert delivers a powerful, clear-eyed interrogation of how culture, particularly the visual and media landscape of the 1990s and 2000s, shaped a generation of women. Drawing from art, pop culture, and her own personal narrative, Gilbert invites readers to re-examine the stories we absorbed about what it meant to be a girl. And what those stories cost us.
This is part memoir, part cultural history, and part feminist manifesto. Gilbert deftly explores how young women were taught to see themselves. Not as subjects, but as objects to be consumed, ranked, and judged. From the "lad ... View Full Review
The Gowkaran Tree unfolds over fifty turbulent years in modern Iran, a lush and layered narrative that beautifully interlaces politics, family, revolution, and reconstruction. At its heart lies the mysterious palace where twelve children vanished one long-ago night, each of their fates echoing the colourful and often painful destinies shaped by the immense cultural and political transformations surrounding them.What resonated profoundly with me was the novel’s portrayal of a family’s determined effort to preserve the richness of Iranian culture and identity in the face of the sweeping Islamic hegemony imposed after the 1979 revolution. This struggle ... View Full Review
Tart by Slutty Chef is a riotous, raunchy, and revolutionary memoir-meets-manifesto that blends food, sex and fierce storytelling into one unforgettable dish. If you like your reading like your recipes - bold, unapologetic, and packed with flavour, then Tart will satisfy your literary appetite and leave you hungry for more. But make sure you leave your sensibilities at home!
Slutty Cheff (the pen name of a culinary creative, anonymous chef turned digital provocateur) serves up more than just personal anecdotes in this fiery debut. It's a fly on the wall insight into her life in smoggy kitchens ... View Full Review
If you’ve ever found yourself in a late-night YouTube spiral watching explainer videos on philosophy or politics because it’s kind of fun, David Runciman’s The History of Ideas is basically that - but in book form, and much smarter. And no, don't worry you don’t need to have a dusty copy of Hobbes or Rousseau on your shelf to enjoy it. Thank the lord for that.
Runciman, who you might know from his excellent podcast Talking Politics, has a gift for making complicated thinkers feel... approachable. He doesn’t just list ... View Full Review
At the centre of Rumoured is Harlow Hayes. Once the industry’s platinum-haired sweetheart, now a Grammy-winning pop icon with a darker edge and a trail of mystery in her wake.
Harlow rocketed to fame at 19 with bubblegum hits that charmed a generation. But her fourth album, Apotheosis, was a game-changer - sweeping the boards and marking a creative rebirth. Her latest release, Legacy, led by the haunting single "Garden of Bones," deepens that transformation. Gone is the pop princess; in her place stands an artist draped in Old Hollywood glamour and shadowy metaphor, a master of the carefully ... View Full Review
H.J. Garbett's My Wife, the Serial Killer throws you into the mind of a suburban wife with a dark secret right from its intriguing prologue. We meet Gareth, a newly promoted homicide detective, who's been married for 5 years to Fran. Their seemingly perfect life is about to teeter on the brink as she confesses (to us, the reader) that she's "done it once before and got away with it."
The story truly kicks off when she kills their next-door neighbour. The internal conflict is palpable as she grapples with the idea of making Gareth choose between his "dutiful police ... View Full Review
Established in 1869, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven (HMRC) is the UK’s official, government-sanctioned network of witches - women born with supernatural gifts: Sentinels with telepathy and telekinesis, Healers, Elementals, Oracles, and the rare, powerful Adepts who possess more than one.
In Human Rites, the fragile alliances built over the past three books collapse under the weight of betrayal, grief, and rising demonic threats. Gaia, the divine mother herself, may have gifted her daughters magic, but now something ancient is pushing back. Satanis has risen, fractured into Lucifer, Belial, and Leviathan, and he’s using every tool (... View Full Review
Spanning three generations of Puerto Rican women - Rafaela, her daughter Ruth, and granddaughter Daisy - Speak To Me of Home had me hooked from the start. The narrative traverses time and geography, from the opulent halls of 1960s San Juan to the suburban landscapes of Missouri and the storm-lashed streets of present-day Puerto Rico.
At its core, the novel explores the multifaceted concept of "home". Rafaela's privileged upbringing in San Juan is upended by scandal, leading her to a life of displacement and longing in the American Midwest. Ruth grapples with her cultural identity and the challenges of raising ... View Full Review
Flitting between Muswell Hill in 2023 and Marin County 2014, we meet Beth. Beth. The new mum of Etta. The wife of Adam. Knee deep in that challenging stage of innumerable wakes. Feeling like the waking dead. Getting just enough rest to paper over the cracks until it all starts again on repeat. But Beth can't possibly ignore the privilege of motherhood, or choose not to cherish every moment, especially when she considers all she's been through to get there.
Although she misses the days of sharp edges. Of laptops, and coffee cups and meetings and lunchbreaks, she adores her baby girl. ... View Full Review
Set in 1970s Britain, The Best of Everything follows Paulette, a 29 year old single mother from St Kitts working as an auxiliary nurse, whose life is upended by the sudden death of the love of her life, Denton. Courtesy of the Cherry Red Toyota Celina she begged him not to buy.
As Paulette navigates the complexities of loss and unexpected motherhood, she becomes entangled in the lives of those connected to her lover, including his friend Garfield, Shirt-and-tie man and a young boy Nellie.
Gifted with Bird, her son who she dotes upon, the boy who has light in his ... View Full Review
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