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Hello everyone!! I just wanted to come on here and say that I won't be active on this blog for the duration of my temporary role at Bloomsbury. I really just want to put everything I've got into this opportunity. It feels like the biggest and most pivotal step in my career so far, and I want to give it my absolute all. This blog was there through what felt like a never-ending period of job hunting. It gave me something to focus on when I had nowhere else to put my energy, and

I feel a little mixed about this one. Overall, I did enjoy it and was always interested in picking it back up, but on reflection, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it wasn’t completely fully formed. There were so many fascinating ideas and themes that I wanted explored further, and I felt there was potential for it to go deeper. That being said for a debut, I was impressed. I found the discussions around Natalie’s character particularly interesting. A lot of criticism focuses

10/10. No notes. Actually, I should probably take a star off purely because this book came out 15 years ago and we’re still waiting for the third and final instalment. That is honestly why it took me so long to pick up this one, because after this… who knows when we’ll get more? Rothfuss remains one of the best fantasy authors I’ve ever read. This book is packed with lore, history, and incredibly detailed world-building, but somehow it never feels overwhelming or boring. Even

I really struggled with this one. I went in hoping for an entertaining, escapist romance, but unfortunately this book just did not work for me. Now when I tell you I hated the MMC, I mean I hated that man. He is exactly the type of character the manosphere would eat up. He and this entire book was extremely misogynistic. His attitude towards women, relationships, and intimacy was incredibly difficult to overlook, and I found it hard to understand why anyone (let alone the FMC

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Rebecca Yarros’ Big Announcement… Wasn’t Book Four Back in March, Rebecca Yarros announced that she was writing a fourth book in her Empyrean series, and everyone has been waiting patiently for the announcement, the announcement that was finally rele

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) TikTok Joins the National Year of Reading TikTok is now an official partner of the National Year of Reading. This is both surprising and… not surprising. While you could argue that social media is one of the biggest contenders for taking up children’

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Behind the Book Market During The Bookseller’s Marketing and Publicity Conference on 29th June, we were informed that the UK consumer book market is set to grow modestly in value this year, despite a decline in print sales volumes. This is largely du

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Sense and Sensibility Trailer Release Nobody panic, but the Sense and Sensibility trailer has just dropped. I will always and forever appreciate period drama adaptations (unless it’s the Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, in that case,

Hello! This is my bi-weekly update on publishing. I hope you haven’t missed me too much, but here I am again with another catch-up for all you wonderful people who are dying to get into the industry just as much as I am. So, without further ado, here’s another segment of the blind leading the blind! I genuinely cannot believe I am typing this... I feel incredibly emotional having to come back to this realisation over and over again every time I think about it, but this week I

Hello! This is my bi-weekly update on publishing. I hope you haven’t missed me too much, but here I am again with another catch-up for all you wonderful people who are dying to get into the industry just as much as I am. So, without further ado, here’s another segment of the blind leading the blind! Big news, the biggest news: I’ve had an interview! Well, actually three, to be exact (it was a three-stage process) for a creative agency. The role was for a Marketing Account Exe

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Your Fault: London Released Your Fault: London (the second film in the My Fault series) was released this week and I did indeed get to watch it. Now, is the premise a bit strange? A young woman, Noah, moves from America to London with her mother and

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Hot Girls Read… and Trademark Popular Slogans?” BookTok creator and small business owner, Allie Mitrovich (known online as @allieroseco), recently found herself at the centre of a scandal after making the ill-advised decision to trademark the phrase

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Silenced at the Festival: The Meta–Wynn-Williams Legal Battle I’ll be honest, I don't feel particularly inspired by the stories this week. You can always tell when you have to dig and pry for something, anything, and even then what you find feels a b

Hello! This is my bi-weekly update on publishing. I hope you haven’t missed me too much, but here I am again with another catch-up for all you wonderful people who are dying to get into the industry just as much as I am. So, without further ado, here’s another segment of the blind leading the blind! I’ve had a bit of a shuffle recently in how I work and when I work, and I’m starting to understand why I’ve been struggling at times: I’m craving structure more than I realised. B

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) What’s Next for the Off Campus TV Series? The Off Campus TV shows have done very well, with 36 million views. The first season was based on the first book in Elle Kennedy’s series, The Deal, starring Ella Bright as Hannah Wells and Belmont Carmeli as

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Libraries for Primaries: Expanding Reading Access in UK Schools The National Literacy Trust is working to encourage more children to read for pleasure and address the worrying decline in reading among young people. As part of this, they are inviting

I have mixed feelings about this book, but I don’t think you can deny it is an important work that has shaped how we think about politics and authoritarian regimes. Nineteen Eighty-Four is often described as a very male-centred text: it focuses far more on systems of power than on relationships or emotional interiority, which gives it a stark, cold quality and a distinctly male gaze perspective. It is written so convincingly that readers from real-life dictatorships have repo

Hello! This is my bi-weekly update on publishing. I hope you haven’t missed me too much, but here I am again with another catch-up for all you wonderful people who are dying to get into the industry just as much as I am. So, without further ado, here’s another segment of the blind leading the blind! Not much to report this time around, although I recently had my Hunterian Museum volunteer interview (more of a casual conversation), and it went really well. The establishment an

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Boys of Tommen Cast Announcement: Expectations vs Reality Amazon Prime has announced the first cast members for The Boys of Tommen, an adaptation of Chloe Walsh’s book series, which gained popularity on TikTok and was originally published back in 201

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all things books! We’re keeping it short and sweet, just five stories to keep you in the loop without overwhelming you. Think of this as your quick fix for staying connected to the book world. I) Harry Potter Renewed for Season Two Already Let’s start with the fun news! Yesterday it was announced that Harry Potter has already been renewed for its second season. It’s going to be done by overlapping production schedules. Once season one has wra