Thursday 22 September 2016

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Book Review


Review of Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

"I was a shoplifter, a pervert, you might say, and a liar of course, but nobody knew that."


Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (Vintage) is the 2016 Man Booker Prize short list option that's got everyone talking. Some are praising the novel and hoping it wins the award, while others say it doesn't deserve to be on the list at all.

It's a controversial choice and definitely a controversial book, dividing it's readers. So this, of course, made me want to read it.

Tuesday 13 September 2016

Book Shop Spot: Mermaid Tales Bookshop, Tofino, Canada

...and a mini book haul


Mermaid Tales Bookshop - Tofino, Vancouver Island

I'm going to start doing semi-regular posts on Book Shop Spots; a brief review of bookshops I've visited. The majority of these will probably be located around Suffolk in the UK as that's where I'm based, but I'll start off with a book shop on the other side of the world; Mermaid Tales Bookshop in Tofino in British Columbia, Canada.


Thursday 8 September 2016

The Girls by Emma Cline

Book Review


Review of The Girls by Emma Cline


Being loosely based on the Manson Family cult, apparently selling for a $2 million contract and written by an author who's only 25 years old, The Girls by Emma Cline (Random House) was a must-read before it was even published.

I'd seen lots of good reviews of the book and also a couple of ones that hated it, so I thought I'd see what all the fuss is about.