Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

If I told you that I picked up this book because I saw it all over Instagram and it had a sparkly cover with a CAT on it, then sorry to disappoint you...

Get Your Shit Together, Sarah Knight

Before I went on holiday, I picked up this book from the Oxfam bookshop in town. Being away always makes me

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Thinking about it, I’ve actually been exposed to the stories of the Greek myths from a very early age...

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, Hallie Rubenhold

Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. History remembers them as bodies, Hallie Rubenhold remembers them as people – as women.

The Court of Miracles, Kester Grant

Back in June, when the shops opened again, I made the most of a day off and went straight to Waterstones. I was beyond excited, not only to be in a bookshop again...

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

One thing I really loved was how much they really nailed the suffocating small town dynamic, where everyone is in everyone else’s business, with an unhealthy opinion on everything everyone does.

Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Clearly at 25 my student days are so drastically far behind me I can start softly reminiscing about “the good old days” when really it was only 4 years ago…