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Take Six Girls
When I told my colleague Annie that I had just finished Laura Thompson’s Take Six Girls, she quipped that you couldn’t make the Mitford sisters up. Born into an aristocratic British family between...
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Lonely Onlies
BOOK: Only (Caroline Baum) RATING: Two stars Having rewatched it virtually every night on loop for the better part of two years, you would be correct in assuming that one of my favourite TV shows is...
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What We’re Reading: January
Annie The Choke by Sofie Laguna A punch in the guts that deals expertly with issues of poverty, class and male violence. We see 70s Australia through the eyes of 10 year old Justine, whose voice is...
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Remember it’s a Sin to Kill a Mockingbird
The book’s original cover (source: npr.org) I’ve had a long relationship with To Kill A Mockingbird. I first came across it when I was maybe 10, when I watched the film adaptation. My parents...
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What We’re Reading February
Annie Dyschronia by Jennifer Mills My Writers’ Week picks are Rachel Khong, Patricia Lockwood and Sarah Sentilles. I’ve also just finished reading Jennifer Mills’ Dyschronia, which is a meditation on...
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What We’re Reading: March
Annie Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Carmen Maria Machado’s collection of stories Her Body and Other Parties considers all the ways women’s bodies are used and abused in our...
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What We’re Reading: April
Annie The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton and The Hoarder by Jess Kidd I’ve just finished two books about creepy houses full of mysteries and sadness. The Miniaturist, by Jessie Burton, is set in...
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What We’re Reading: May
Annie A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume Funny, inventive and reflective, A Line Made by Walking is the story of a young artist’s gradual return to the world following a period of mental ill-health....
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What We’re Reading: June
Annie Built by Roma Agrawal and Happiness by Aminatta Forna I have read two books this month that have made me think about big cities and specifically London. Roma Agrawal, one of the engineers behind...
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What We’re Reading: July
Annie A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg I seem to have been reading lots of middle grade books lately, and by far the best has been Barry Jonsberg’s A Song Only I Can Hear. It’s the story of...
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What We’re Reading: August
Annie What We Owe by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde and Clock Dance by Anne Tyler While I was in the Blue Mountains recently I read two very different books: What We Owe by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde and Clock...
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Books I’ve Enjoyed in 2018: A Mid-Year Report!
And so we’re already over halfway through this year! I’m not sure I like how quickly it seems to be going by. However, despite this busyness, I’ve still managed to find some time to discover some...
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What We’re Reading: September
Annie Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott and Unthinkable by Helen Thomson This month I’ve read two books about science and the brain’s influence on our actions and perception of the world. Give Me Your...
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What We’re Reading: October
Annie The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright and In the Distance by Hernan Diaz I’ve been reading a couple of books that examine the idea of home and the role that the spaces that we inhabit play in our...
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Mostly Books turns 41!
On Thursday, November 8, we threw ourselves a birthday party to commemorate 41 years of business. We were joined by more than 70 loyal customers, trade representatives and past and present staff to...
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What We’re Reading: November
Annie Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend and The Murderer’s Ape by Jakob Wegelius. In Wundersmith, we return to the world of Nevermoor with our intrepid hero, Morrigan Crow, as she begins her first year...
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What We’re Reading: December
Annie My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite and Still Lives by Maria Hummel. I’ve just read a couple of smart, edgy crime thrillers that don’t quite fit the mould but succeed nonetheless....
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Book Club Recommemdations for 2019
For those lucky enough to be in a book club, we’ve got twelve recommendations that might have gone under the radar for your next year’s worth of reads. FICTION Happiness – Aminatta Forna A novel of...
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What We’re Reading: January
Annie The Fragments by Toni Jordan and The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton My guilty pleasure reads are twisty crime novels, in the vein of Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers, and...
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What We’re Reading: February
Annie The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend is a little gem. It follows an academic as she mourns the loss of a dear friend and colleague, but her grief is complicated by the...
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