‘What happens after you die? Maybe you turn into the wind. Maybe you turn into the stars. Maybe you go to another world.’ Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee are both award-winning children’s authors. Appelt’s most acclaimed work is The Underneath which received a Newbery Honour and was a National Book Award finalist. McGhee’s novel Someday … Continue reading Maybe a Fox | Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee

‘This is their story. This is the sound of a hundred thousand women’s voices. This is what they’re telling us.’ Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project which has taken off more than she could have imagined. Bates reaches out to people through this online forum, along with twitter and other events … Continue reading Everyday Sexism | Laura Bates

Note: Tolkien chooses to use the plural of dwarf as dwarves, where as during this review I will be using the normal dwarfs. ‘Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool.’ J.R.R. Tolkien is possibly best known for writing The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has become a massively popular film franchise. Tolkien had … Continue reading The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien

Note: I am not going to pretend that I know much at all about disability so I am pretty much totally unaware if the portrayal in the novel is accurate (I am not therefore saying that I believe it to be an inaccurate portrayal either). Furthermore, please be aware that this novel is a work … Continue reading Me Before You | Jojo Moyes

‘Sundrenched and optimistic, and exploring many issues at the heart of Edwardian life – radical thinking, women’s suffrage, the constrictions of English social rules – this is a brilliantly witty love story.’ E.M. Forster is known, above all, for being a writer. His most popular works include A Room with a View, Howard’s End and … Continue reading A Room with a View | E.M. Forster

I would like to begin this review in a way that will help give you a feel for what the book is like and the best way to do that is to firstly quote what is written on the back. ‘Warning: This book contains feminist limericks, colour-by-numbers genitalia and dancing vaginas.’ Furthermore, I think that … Continue reading Girl Up | Laura Bates

I would like to begin with a little note about myself as I believe this shows why I have the opinions that I have on this book. In all honesty, when it comes to sex and anything on that level, I am not the most open and can be easily embarrassed. But I know that … Continue reading How to be a Woman | Caitlin Moran

IF YOU HAVE NOT READ BILLY AND ME DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW. THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. ‘Love makes the world a better place’. But that does not mean it is always easy. Always with Love is Giovanna Fletcher’s fourth novel and is the sequel to her debut novel Billy and Me. Giovanna is busy … Continue reading Always with Love | Giovanna Fletcher

I would like to start this by saying that I do not regard this as a review as such, mainly because I started reading this book months ago and have been dipping in and out of it ever since which means I made no notes on it. In fact, I never planned to write about … Continue reading All I Know Now | Carrie Hope Fletcher

‘No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.’ When you think of great detectives, Sherlock Holmes is always one of the first names to come to you. Even those who have never read one of … Continue reading A Study in Scarlett | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle