When Feather comes home on New Year’s Eve to find her mother – one of Britain’s most obese women – in a diabetic coma, she knows something has to be done to save her mum’s life. But when she refuses to co-operate, Feather realises that the problem runs deeper than just her mum’s unhealthy appetite. […]
Book Review: This Essentialism by Greg McKeown
I originally saw this book advertised in an American magazine (and podcast) I subscribe to called ‘Success Magazine’. The book was plugged as an aid to help readers ‘eliminate the superfluous, unrewarding and unproductive activities that drain time, energy and focus’. As someone who spends far too much time checking emails, scrolling through Instagram and […]
Book Review: Perfect by Cecelia Ahern
Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick–the only person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret–one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret […]
Book Review: My Life as a Bench by Jaq Hazell
Title: My Life as a Bench Author: Jaq Hazell Publisher/Date: Nowness Books 2nd May 2017 Ren Miller has died aged seventeen and yet her consciousness lives on, inhabiting her memorial bench by the River Thames in London. Ren longs to be reunited with her boyfriend, Gabe, but soon discovers why he has failed to […]
Book Review: The Memory Game by Sharon Sant
‘If there is a hell, I think maybe this is it.’ Weeks after fifteen-year-old David is killed by a speeding driver, he’s still hanging around and he doesn’t know why. The only person who can see and hear him is the girl he spent his school days bullying. Bethany is the most hated girl at […]
Book Review: The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says […]
The Kite Runner at Wyndham’s Theatre
Since its publication in 2003, ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Housseini has sold 31.5 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for both the big screen and the theatre. I am sure anyone who has seen it will agree that the film is terrrrible! I’m talking: dreadful, abominable, appallling, shameful, *insert any other synoynms you […]
Book Review: Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
“A Happy Life with a Mixed-up Mind” I had seen this book floating around Instagram for a while and had made a mental note to add it to my growing non-fiction pile when I found it, smiling at me, on the ‘New In’ shelf at my local libray. In recent months, a few celebrities, working […]