In These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany, uni besties Malak, Kees, and Jenna live between traditional Muslim lives (massive weddings,…
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?, by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn is such a fun read, blending Nigerian customs with the typical beats of…
When Natasha Solomons' House of Gold opens, the Goldbaum banking family has a branch in every European country, and the rules…
The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey, blends two of my favorite things to read about: a vibrant, distant,…
By now, whenever Marcus and Perilla start talking about having a relaxing time, I'm pretty sure someone's about to find…
Dispel Illusion is the final story in Mark Laurence's Impossible Times trilogy. In the first novel, One Word Kill, teenage…
Susan Reiger's The Heirs is a blend of manners novel and family saga. The story opens with the death of…
Good Girls Lie is about the secrets of the privileged young women at the Goode Academy in rural Virginia. This…
The Paying Guests was on my library requests list so long that I forgot who recommended it or why, so…
The first thing I need to tell you about this book is that it's not a cute title -- this…
I already really liked Doctor Who, and Thirteen is just so great! This last season was almost all hits for…
I first read Jojo Moyes' The Ship of Brides in Beijing, in fact, I have a paperback copy with a 100RMB…
Limited Wish picks up just after One Word Kill ended. Nick's at Cambridge now, and there are finally more girls around! But…
When we first meet her, Jamaican-British Queenie is facing a breakup, or rather not facing a breakup by pretending she and…
One of the most interesting parts of The Taste of Empire is about tea. The book explains that poor British…
I came to One Word Kill immediately after giving up on two different, terrible (self-pubbed) scifi titles, and I was beginning to…
Stephanie Barron's new novel, That Churchill Woman blends historical scandal with a manners novel. Throughout the book, Jennie Jerome shows…
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi begins with the story of two half-sisters in the 1700s in what's now Ghana. One of…
Tayo Emmanuel's new novel Echoes From The Past is written in Nigerian English, which helps establish the setting early on. Just…
Class boundaries disappear and secrets slip out on a long, hot journey from England to Australia in Rachel Rhys' Dangerous Crossing.…
A Cut Above follows a group of school friends in Edinburgh through the 60s and 70s. There's so much high drama…
In Stella Newman’s new novel Pear Shaped, our heroine, Sophie, is a puddings developer for a supermarket chain. Handsome, wealthy,…
I wasn’t sure if I was going to like Teri Wilson’s Unleashing Mr. Darcy. On one hand, I can't read…