An Evening with Adam Silvera

Bio Adam Silvera is an American writer, born and raised in the Bronx, NYC. He has worked in the publishing industry on and off as a children's bookseller, a marketing assistant for a literary development company, and a reviewer of children's and YA novels. He has been writing since the age of 11, originally writing…

The Fifty Bookish Questions Book Tag

Being relatively new to the book blogging community, I have only just come across 'book tags'. Book tags are a list of book related questions that the blogger answers. The question series can be relatively simple about books in general and the book blogger, like the book tag I am going to be doing today.…

Philippa Gregory’s upcoming release, ‘The Last Tudor’

I am a big fan of historical fiction, with a real passion for the Victorian and Tudor periods. Monarchies have always fascinated me, particularly those during the 14th to 18th centuries when the royal courts were scenes of ludicrous luxury. The power wielded by the reigning monarchs, the strong influence of religious values and the social norms of…

Kristy Woodson Harvey at Reynolds Plantation

I have just come from a wonderful talk and book signing by Kristy Woodsen Harvey, author of Dear Carolina, Lies and Other Acts of Love (Berkley/Penguin Random House), and Slightly South of Simple (Gallery/Simon & Schuster). Her talk tonight was the second-to-last event of her Slightly South of Simple 30-day book tour. I was really excited to hear Kristy speak because I…

The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas

Starr Carter is a sixteen-year-old girl, born and raised in a poverty-stricken city neighbourhood where rival gangs rule the streets. In an attempt to keep their children safe, Starr's parents send her and her two brothers to a predatory school in suburbia. She has learned to live as two versions of herself, adapting to the…

Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee

Harper Lee is known for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. First published in 1960, the novel has become a classic of American literature and is now a fundamental book in many high school curriculums. Go Set a Watchman was only discovered in Lee's safety deposit box in 2015. It was originally thought to be a second…

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the 8th installment in the Harry Potter story, set 19 years after the battle of Hogwarts. The book is the Official Script of the Westend play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'. 19 years after The Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter is the Head of Magical Law Enforcement and has three children…

Resistance is Futile, by Jenny T. Colgan

Resistance is Futile is told from the perspective of Connie, an extremely intelligent mathematician. She is offered a research fellowship at a university, but the position is not what she expected. She finds out she will be working as part of a team tasked with deciphering a series of numbers, an operation classified 'Top Secret'. The team…

You, by Caroline Kepnes

You is a fascinatingly sinister novel following the obsessive Joe Goldberg. From the instant the quirky, aspiring writer Guinevere Beck enters the bookstore where Joe works, he is determined to make her 'his' - at any cost. I absolutely loved this book. I had heard great reviews about You so I was already intrigued before picking up a copy, but Kepnes…

The One We Fell in Love With, by Paige Toon

The One We Fell in Love With tells the story of three very different identical triplets who all fall in love with Angus, the boy next door. Ten years later, Phoebe and Angus are engaged, Rose is in London with a still-married boyfriend, and Eliza is living at home, struggling to achieve her dream of becoming a musician whilst coping with unrequited…