Fiction

Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very interesting take on social media. Leila is a dowdy, shut-in teenager traumatised by the death of her mother. She is drawn in

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova My rating: 4 of 5 stars (Gigantic spoilers included!) I felt ultimately torn about this book. It boasts a slow but atmospheric beginning. Yet I was awake late into the

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really enjoyed this by the time I was done. After a rocky relationship with it at the beginning, it cut suddenly

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is another of those classics I’ve been promising myself I’d get around to for years, and now I have, and yet

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill My rating: 5 of 5 stars A tiny, beautifully put together little ghost story. It lacks the bombast of the play or the movie, but is full of