I Can’t Remember The Title But The Cover Is Blue is the perfect book for anyone who has ever worked in customer service and had to deal with the general public. It’s also for anyone who has dreamed of working in a bookshop: welcome to the reality! People are strange and wonderful beasts. I use […]
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Clem Ford, 2 kids for sale and a few vampires – Story Addict Podcast
In this episode of Story Addict I’m talking about Clementine Ford’s upcoming book, Boys Will Be Boys, as well as my thoughts on her first book, Fight Like A Girl. I’ll also tell you about a new release historical fiction, Sold on a Monday, based on the true Depression-era photograph of two children with a ‘For Sale’ sign next to […]
The Choice: An Auschwitz memoir of survival, hope and healing
The Choice is the memoir of Edith Edger, an Auschwitz survivor. In 1944 she was arrested with her family as a Jew and sent to Auschwitz. One year later she was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. In this incredible book she tells her own story of living with trauma and how she […]
Stand-up comedy in print: Kitty Flanagan’s ‘Bridge Burning & other hobbies’
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it gave me plenty of laughs when I was very much in need of them. Kitty Flanagan is one of my favourite comedians. Reading Bridge Burning & other hobbies was like enjoying a stand-up routine in print – and every bit as funny! The first time I came across Kitty Flanagan was […]
Book review: Bookworm, by Lucy Mangan
If you were the kind of child who took books to bed instead of stuffed toys, then you absolutely MUST read this book. It’s hilarious, so very relatable and a wonderful trip down memory lane! Sort of like Gogglebox – but for readers – Lucy Mangan’s Bookworm is a memoir of childhood reading, from The Very […]
Book review: The Daily Struggles of Archie Adams (aged 2 1/4), by Katie Kirby
Beware: This book will make you laugh out loud and you’ll want to read excerpts from every second page to anyone standing near you. You might want to warn your nearest and dearest. I bought Katie Kirby’s second book, The Daily Struggles of Archie Adams (aged 2 1/4), while we were in the middle of renovating […]