book review Archives

Review: Learning America by Luma Mufleh

by Claire Herbaux | Apr 27, 2022

We chose Learning America for our book of the month, it’s sure to make you more thoughtful about the refugee crisis. Check out our review.

Review: Contempt by Michael Cordell

by Claire Herbaux | Sep 30, 2020

It’s been a while since a book was this captivating and held me for so long, I read it in two sittings. Whenever you think you know what it going on, it’s going in a different direction. Just like in prison, you can’t trust anyone – or any rules and it is never certain who will survive.

Review: Across the Winding River

by Claire Herbaux | Aug 26, 2020

After more than 50s years, Beth and her 90-year-old father open a box of mementos from his time fighting in World War Two. Among those is a photo of her father Max with a woman.
Told from the perspective of Beth, of Max while he was a medic at the front, and of a young German flight captain working in Berlin in the 1930s and 1940s…

Book Review – The Switch, by Beth O’Leary

by Claire Herbaux | Jul 29, 2020

A 79-year-old takes on busy London life while a millennial move to a quiet little village and busies herself helping the elderly residents and planning the May Day celebration.

Review: The Bright Side of Going Dark by Kelly Harms

by Claire Herbaux | May 27, 2020

This book may have been written before the world changed, but it comes at the perfect time. Disguised as a story about social media, it makes us analyse our family relationships, our life and our anxieties.

Book Review: The Other Family by Loretta Nyhan

by Claire Herbaux | Apr 29, 2020

When your child is sick, you’d do anything to help them. Even if family is complicated. Find out more about The Other Family in our review.

Book review: Yeah. No. Not Happening, by Karen Karbo

by Claire Herbaux | Mar 25, 2020

Yeah. No. Not Happening is about how to say no to all the self-improvement ideas you know, deep down, you don’t need, accepting your flawed self, and saying yes to what makes you happy. The one self-help book you should really read right now

Review: How to Save the World for Free

by Claire Herbaux | Jan 29, 2020

Feeling like you want to do your bit in the world? There’s lots of ways you can help the environmental issue with this book, in the everyday. Find out more.

Review: Better off Bald

by Claire Herbaux | Dec 25, 2019

Our book of the month for December is something we that’ll make you think twice. Its a hard read, especially at Christmas, but the message is important.

Review: What We’re Told Not To Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway)

by Claire Herbaux | Jul 31, 2019

We review Nimko Ali’s What We’re Told Not To Talk About- periods, orgasms, pregnancy and menopause. Read about the shared experience. It’s an eye-opener.

Review: Seven Letters by Sinéad Moriarty

by Claire Herbaux | May 29, 2019

We review Sinead Moriarty’s latest book: Seven Letters. A harrowing, thought-provoking book that makes you question what you would do in that situation and importantly, have those conversations about what you’d want to happen.