By the time I finished Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, I felt like I'd completed something big – not just...
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I finished ‘The Book of Guilt’ feeling relieved to be out of its world. I raced through it in barely a day and...
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Reading ‘Gridlock’ feels like being strapped into a high-speed chase that never escapes the system it's racing against. Ben Elton delivers a fast,...
DebraFebruary 6, 2026
By the end of ‘Untold Story’, I still didn't know what its heroine wanted – and that uncertainty is exactly what makes the...
DebraFebruary 6, 2026
'Born Lippy' doesn't feel like advice so much as a long, honest conversation with someone who isn't trying to impress you. From the...
DebraFebruary 6, 2026
"It means starting conversations differently - with curiosity rather than certainty - and trusting that better solutions will emerge as a result." This...
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I didn't want to leave the world of Dream Count. When I picked up my next book , I could feel the difference....
DebraDecember 28, 2025
Bonnie Wan's book asks you to identify what you want to be different in your life and then to understand how you need...
DebraDecember 28, 2025
History was my worst subject at school. But reading Fiona Sussman's Shifting Colours made the experience of apartheid in South Africa real, as...
DebraDecember 28, 2025
The main character leaves her marriage and high-profile environmental activism role to move to a convent. She wants to be near the place...
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