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As my last couple of blogs have probably shown I am a bit of a fan of a dystopian novel with a feminist twist. And luckily for me there are a lot more out there for me. Today I am sharing a few that I am sure I’ll be reading in the coming months. The [...]
A must read feminist dystopian novel about the power of books A few weeks ago I shared my first blog on feminist dystopian fiction, which you can read here. This week I’m dedicating a post to a recent release which, in my humble opinion, will be joining that pantheon of superb speculative fiction. That book [...]
A little fact about me - I love a bit of dystopian fiction. It started with Brave New World, a book forced upon me by my Grandad when I was a teenager, and then 1984. Both very good, but neither of which completely captured my imagination. And then at university, during a creative writing unit, [...]
Readers I’ve noticed a little something of late, thanks in part to my reading A Girl Made Of Air - I love a book set in a circus. Now yes I am aware that it is very niche, but bear with me on this one. Lyrical and inventive, A Girl Made of Air is a [...]
Hello my dear readers, bibliophiles and bookworms. It’s been a little while since I posted a review, but I feel like I’ve picked a goodie to share with you today. The Mercies by Karen Millwood Hargrave is the story of Maren, the most beguiling heroine you could possibly hope for. She is haunted by visceral [...]
We all have those books that we’ve seen in the bookshop multiple times and said “I really want to read that” (which becomes “I really should read that”) or those books we buy and then eye us with an accusatory glare each time we reach for a different book on our shelves …. Just me [...]
We do know that the conditions of Molotschna have been created by man, that these attacks have been made possible, even the conception of these acts, the planning of these attacks, the rationale for these attacks within the minds of men, because of the circumstances of Molotschna. And these circumstances have been created and ordained [...]
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