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  • Book Review: Normal People

    Normal People by Sally Rooney. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Normal People is the story of Marianne and Connell who grow up in a small town in the west of Ireland. The novel covers their relationship over four years as they finish school and go on to study at Trinity College in Dublin. Reading…

  • Book Review: Friend Request

    Friend Request by Laura Marshall. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Friend Request is the story of a woman who receives a Facebook friend request from a girl she used to know at school. A girl who died twenty-five years ago. As soon as I heard about this book, I knew I had to read…

  • Book Review: Last Orders

    Last Orders by Graham Swift. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Last Orders is the story of a group of men who take a short road trip from London to Margate to dispose of the ashes of their lifelong friend, Jack Dodds, stopping off at various places on the way. The book makes extensive use…

  • Book Review: The Brotherhood

    The Brotherhood by Jerry B. Jenkins. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. The Brotherhood is the story of Boone Drake, an ambitious rookie cop who wants to take on the Chicago underworld, facing some tough personal challenges along the way. The first few lines of this novel grabbed me straight away. I knew it wasn’t…

  • Book Review: My Legendary Girlfriend

    My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. My Legendary Girlfriend is the story of Will, a hopeless romantic who is still trying to get over being dumped by the love of his life three years before. The book is set over the course of a single weekend, and is a…

  • Book Review – Who Moved My BlackBerry?

    Who Moved My Blackberry? by Lucy Kellaway. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Who Moved My BlackBerry is the hilarious story of Martin Lukes and his struggle to reach the top of the corporate ladder and become “22.5 percent better than his bestest”. The book is written entirely as a series of emails from Martin…

  • Book Review: Atlas Shrugged

    Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. My rating: 1 of 5 stars. Atlas Shrugged is a behemoth of a book that doesn’t know what it is. It wants to be a novel, but it also wants to be a vehicle for Rand’s objectivist philosophy. By trying to be both, it fails to be either. For a…