Oyinkan Braithwaite's debut novel is all fizz and pulp in the chick reads section, and yet it also bubbles with a bloody humour that lifts it out into its own hybrid of Nigerian comedy and crime. The perils of sisterhood are [...]
Paradise is the confessional of Hannah, an alcoholic whose time-slips and blackouts have made her job as a fruit box saleswoman impossible. She loses her company car and job, and sets about getting drunk yet again. The book opens with Hannah [...]
It is impossible to know if this book is literally a confessional of someone who then published as fiction, because the author remains unknown. The hype that follows this book is intense, and continues today even after ten years, and will [...]
Written just after 9-11, and as a writer in love with his city, DeLillo continues his ode to New York with this book, based around the life of a young rich businessman Eric Packer as he gets stuck in various traffic [...]
The Ghosts of Gray Fable by Eli Bloom is a chilling and thrilling YA novel. With a bold plot line and an unforgettable protagonist, The Ghosts of Gray Fable instantly stands out as a paranormal classic. Author Eli Bloom captures youth, innocence [...]
When Cassandra Patton Conover, a lone nature writer and conservationist, takes to the Maine wilds with her dog Pock into private grounds for good fishing, she discovers the body of her friend crushed under a tree. Confused by the circumstances of [...]
Eileen relates her young life from fifty years ago. By the fifth page, Eileen is a confidante – but her memories are not trustworthy. Eileen’s story builds a picture towards something terrible, as she describes her suffocating near-sexual co-habitation with her [...]