Review: Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

A stunning collection of short stories, Her Body & Other Parties is as unsettling and surreal as it is quite brilliant...

Books to look forward to this autumn

We're now approaching the end of what has been a glorious summer in the UK, so to get ready for Autumn, I've put together a short list of books that have made my TBR list

#TBT post: Like Water for Chocolate

This is my ThrowbackThursday post from 2009 when I was just testing the blogging waters to see how I would get on. Anyway, I thought I would share it again as Like Water For Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate) is really good and worth reading again. If you like books by Gabriel García Márquez or Isabel Allende, then I think you will definitely enjoy this.

The House of the Spirits

I've had Isabel Allende's debut novel sitting on my shelf for about five years or so. I'd started to read it and then stopped a few pages in for reasons I can't remember. When I started reading it again, I half suspected I was going to give up on it again, but I persevered and soon … Continue reading The House of the Spirits