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Teenage me would have made this book my entire personality. Adult me finished it in nine days and felt every single one of them.

At a glance The Poet Michael Connelly Genre Crime Fiction / Thriller Format Paperback (1996 edition) Source Gifted Did I finish it? Yes My rating 3 / 5 Read if …

The writing is lovely. The story has been told before. Weyward is three stars of a very specific kind; the kind where the craft outpaces the originality.

A Romantasy sceptic’s honest take on Devney Perry’s Shield of Sparrows. Four stars, a bobbing throat, and a genuine recommendation — with where to find it in Australia.

Take a book, give a book, share a book. Here is how we ordered, installed, and painted our street library, and why we think our spot was a good one.

Ninety new library copies appeared overnight and I jumped to the front of the queue. That kind of thing feels like a sign. It wasn’t — at least not for …

A green notebook. A café in London. Six strangers who all, apparently, stop to read it and pour their hearts onto the page. It is giving airport table impulse purchase …

I’ve read enough in this genre to know what separates the books that stay with you from the ones that don’t. These 10 stayed.

A 17-year-old girl. Her 40-year-old teacher. Thinning hair, a growing paunch, and a life that has quietly curdled around him. Half His Age is not a romance — and that’s …