Plot: “Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family’s efforts…… Read more “Book Review: Half A LifeLong Romance By Eileen Chang”
Book Review: Careering By Daisy Buchanan
Plot: Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any job. Writing her blog around double shifts at the pub is neither…… Read more “Book Review: Careering By Daisy Buchanan”
Book Review: The Boys’ Club By Jillian Dodd
Plot: It’s only my second week at Kensington School, and things are getting complicated. I thought my relationship with Harry was finished, but he came over late…… Read more “Book Review: The Boys’ Club By Jillian Dodd”
Book Review: One Of Us Is Dead By Jeneva Rose
Plot: The highly anticipated new thriller from the bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage.Opulence. Sex. Betrayal … Sometimes friendship can be deadly. Meet the women of Buckhead—a place…… Read more “Book Review: One Of Us Is Dead By Jeneva Rose”
Book Review: Chinese Cinderella By Adeline Yen Mah
Plot: A riveting memoir of a girl’s painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s. A Chinese proverb says, “Falling leaves return to their roots.”…… Read more “Book Review: Chinese Cinderella By Adeline Yen Mah”
Book Review: The Five People You Meet In Heaven By Mitch Albom
Plot: Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside…… Read more “Book Review: The Five People You Meet In Heaven By Mitch Albom”
Book Review: The Inmate By Freida McFadden
Plot: There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never…… Read more “Book Review: The Inmate By Freida McFadden”
Book Review: Then She Was Gone By Lisa Jewell
Plot: THENShe was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.…… Read more “Book Review: Then She Was Gone By Lisa Jewell”
Book Review: How To Choose A Guy In 10 Days By Lila Monroe
Plot: Stylist Gemma Jones is competing for a once-in-a-lifetime promotion. All she has to do is take some fashion-backward guy from geek to GQ-worthy. The only problem?…… Read more “Book Review: How To Choose A Guy In 10 Days By Lila Monroe”
Book Review: The Courage To Be Happy By Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Plot: The Courage to be Happy is a profound insight into the way we should live our lives that has already sold more than one million copies in…… Read more “Book Review: The Courage To Be Happy By Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga”
Book Review: Meet Me In Manhattan By Claudia Carroll
Plot: In a New York minute, everything can change … Holly Johnson is at a crossroads in her life. She wants to make it as a real…… Read more “Book Review: Meet Me In Manhattan By Claudia Carroll”
Book Review: The Psychology of Money By Morgan Housel
Plot: Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behaviour is hard to teach, even to really smart people.…… Read more “Book Review: The Psychology of Money By Morgan Housel”
Book Review: First Born By Will Dean
Plot: Sisters. Soulmates. Strangers. Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York,…… Read more “Book Review: First Born By Will Dean”
Book Review: None Of This Is True By Lisa Jewell
Plot: Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her…… Read more “Book Review: None Of This Is True By Lisa Jewell”
Book Review: Cilka’s Journey By Heather Morris
Plot: Cilka Klein is 18 years old when Auschwitz-Birkenau is liberated by Soviet soldiers. But Cilka is one of the many women who is sentenced to a…… Read more “Book Review: Cilka’s Journey By Heather Morris”
Book Review: London Prep: The Exchange By Jillian Dodd
Plot: LONDON PREP – WHERE THE BOYS ARE AS CUTE AS THEIR ACCENTS. When my parents told me that I’d be spending three weeks at a London…… Read more “Book Review: London Prep: The Exchange By Jillian Dodd”
Book Review: Two Doors Away By Elle Spellman
Plot: Since moving to a new city, once-adventurous Steph is doing her best to prove to her friends and family back home that her life is as…… Read more “Book Review: Two Doors Away By Elle Spellman”
Book Review: Girl Friends By Holly Bourne
Plot: “Men see women in two separate categories. There are the women they sleep with, and the women they fall in love with. And they will treat…… Read more “Book Review: Girl Friends By Holly Bourne”
Book Review: The Seaside Ice-Cream Parlour By Sarah Hope
Plot: When Jenny has the chance to leave her days of sofa surfing behind and move to the beach to run her best friend’s ice cream parlour,…… Read more “Book Review: The Seaside Ice-Cream Parlour By Sarah Hope”
Book Review: The Christmas Murder Game By Alexandra Benedict
Plot: Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night? The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the…… Read more “Book Review: The Christmas Murder Game By Alexandra Benedict”
Book Review: Just Like Magic By Sarah Hogle
Plot: Bettie Hughes once knew the comfort of luxury, flaunting a ridiculous collection of designer shoes and a stealthy addiction to CBD oils. That is, until her…… Read more “Book Review: Just Like Magic By Sarah Hogle”
Book Review: I Remember Paris By Lucy Diamond
Plot: Jess Bright, single mum and journalist, feels her life has stalled. So when she’s offered a writing job in Paris for the summer, she leaps at…… Read more “Book Review: I Remember Paris By Lucy Diamond”
Book Review: The Forgotten Guide To Happiness By Sophie Jenkins
Plot: Sometimes, happiness can be found where you least expect it…Twenty-eight-year-old Lana Green has never been good at making friends. She’s perfectly happy to be left alone…… Read more “Book Review: The Forgotten Guide To Happiness By Sophie Jenkins”
Book Review: The Deal By Elle Kennedy
Plot: New York Times bestseller and TikTok sensation Elle Kennedy brings you the first in the sexy Off-Campus series that everyone is talking about. She’s about to…… Read more “Book Review: The Deal By Elle Kennedy”
Book Review: The New Girl By Jesse Q. Sutanto
Plot: Lia Setiawan has never really fit in. When she wins a full ride to the prestigious Draycott Academy on a track scholarship, she’s determined to make…… Read more “Book Review: The New Girl By Jesse Q. Sutanto”
Book Review: This Book Kills By Ravena Guron
Plot: There’s a murderer on the loose in an elite boarding school… But who is going to be next? This Book Kills is the deadliest YA thriller…… Read more “Book Review: This Book Kills By Ravena Guron”
Book Review: The Wife Upstairs By Freida McFadden
Plot: Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with…… Read more “Book Review: The Wife Upstairs By Freida McFadden”
Book Review: Techbitch By Lucy Sykes Jo Piazza
Plot: Techbitch is the wickedly witty and acutely observed novel from Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza about how to keep up in a tech-obsessed world. Imogen Tate, editor-in-chief…… Read more “Book Review: Techbitch By Lucy Sykes Jo Piazza”
Book Review: One By One By Freida McFadden
Plot: One by one, they will get what they deserve… A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her…… Read more “Book Review: One By One By Freida McFadden”
Book Review: The Boyfriend Candidate By Ashley Winstead
Plot: As a shy school librarian, Alexis Stone is comfortable keeping out of the spotlight. But when she’s dumped for being too meek—in bed!—the humiliation is a…… Read more “Book Review: The Boyfriend Candidate By Ashley Winstead”
Book Review: The Mountain Is You By Brianna Wiest
Plot: This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create…… Read more “Book Review: The Mountain Is You By Brianna Wiest”
Book Review: The Pumpkin Spice Cafe By Laurie Gilmore
Plot: When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start…… Read more “Book Review: The Pumpkin Spice Cafe By Laurie Gilmore”
Book Review: The Happy Ever After Playlist By Abby Jimenez
Plot: Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan Monroe still can’t seem to get her life back on track. But one trouble-making pup with a “take me…… Read more “Book Review: The Happy Ever After Playlist By Abby Jimenez”
Book Review: The Chimp Paradox By Dr Steve Peters
Plot: Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagging self-doubt can impact negatively on our professional and personal lives. In this,…… Read more “Book Review: The Chimp Paradox By Dr Steve Peters”
Book Review: Not Here To Be Liked By Michelle Quach
Plot: Emergency Contact meets Moxie in this cheeky and searing novel that unpacks just how complicated new love can get…when you fall for your enemy. Eliza Quan is the perfect…… Read more “Book Review: Not Here To Be Liked By Michelle Quach”
Book Review: Mrs England by Stacey Halls
Plot: West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a…… Read more “Book Review: Mrs England by Stacey Halls”
Book Review: The Confession Room By Lia Middleton
Plot: WELCOME TO THE CONFESSION ROOM: An online forum for anonymous atonement. Some people confess to affairs, others to stealing. Some admit deep, dark wishes. But one…… Read more “Book Review: The Confession Room By Lia Middleton”
Book Review: Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes By Holly Bourne
Plot: Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at “normality” for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for…… Read more “Book Review: Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes By Holly Bourne”
Book Review: The 4-Hour Work Week By Timothy Ferriss
Plot: Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan – there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially…… Read more “Book Review: The 4-Hour Work Week By Timothy Ferriss”
Book Review: Solitaire By Alice Oseman
Plot: My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I like to blog. Last year – before all that stuff with Charlie and before I…… Read more “Book Review: Solitaire By Alice Oseman”
Book Review: The Love I Could Have Had By C.J. Connolly
Plot: What if you could do all the things you never did . . . Meet Olivia. Her life is just about perfect. She has a great…… Read more “Book Review: The Love I Could Have Had By C.J. Connolly”
Book Review: The Stolen Ones By Vanessa Curtis
Plot: My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live in Munich. Food is rationed, though the war ended years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. My parents…… Read more “Book Review: The Stolen Ones By Vanessa Curtis”
Book Review: Twice In A Blue Moon By Christina Lauren
Plot: Sam Brandis was Tate Jones’s first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell…… Read more “Book Review: Twice In A Blue Moon By Christina Lauren”
Book Review: The House Maid By Frieda McFadden
Plot: “Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my…… Read more “Book Review: The House Maid By Frieda McFadden”
Book Review: The House Guest By Mark Edwards
Plot: A perfect summer. A perfect stranger. A perfect nightmare. When British twenty-somethings Ruth and Adam are offered the chance to spend the summer housesitting in New…… Read more “Book Review: The House Guest By Mark Edwards”
Book Review: Long Time No Sea By Portia Macintosh
Plot: There’s trouble in paradise… Moving home in her 30s was not the life plan Jas had in mind. So when her best friend gets in touch…… Read more “Book Review: Long Time No Sea By Portia Macintosh”
Book Review: Something From Tiffany’s
Plot: Doesn’t every girl dream of getting… something from Tiffany’s? On 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts for the…… Read more “Book Review: Something From Tiffany’s”
Book Review: Sweet Temptation By Lucy Diamond
Plot: Maddie’s getting it from all sides. Her bitchy new boss at the radio station humiliates her live on air about her figure, her glamour-puss mum keeps…… Read more “Book Review: Sweet Temptation By Lucy Diamond”
Book Review: The Perfect Son By Freida McFadden
Plot: “Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night…” Erika Cass has a perfect family and…… Read more “Book Review: The Perfect Son By Freida McFadden”
Book Review: Fairy Tale By Stephen King
Plot: Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a…… Read more “Book Review: Fairy Tale By Stephen King”
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