Bottles of Books
Erika Janet


Twelve Nights by Urs Faes [Book Review]
Twelve Nights by Urs Faes is a novel set in Germany during the wintery, dark Christmas festive season and is centred on two brothers,...

Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha [Book Review]
*Thank you NetGalley for the copy of this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. * Where We Go From Here by...

Transitions: Our Stories of Being Trans by Various Authors [Book Review]
*This book has been kindly gifted to me by NetGalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers. As a result of loving the book I will be purchasing...

Wide Sargossa Sea by Jean Rhys [Book Review]
Wide Sargossa Sea by Jean Rhys is an adaption of Charlotte Bronte’s infamous Jane Eyre, centring itself on the ‘mad wife’ of Rochester....

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte [Book Review]
While I’m sure you’ve all heard of this book, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte follows the life of, you guessed it, Jane Eyre. From her life...

A Child Without a Shadow by Prof. Shaul Harel [Book Review]
*This book has been kindly gifted to me. All opinions are my own.* A Child Without a Shadow is the deeply moving autobiography of Prof....

Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey
Thank you Netgalley for an advanced ARC of the book. All opinions are my own. Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey is a Button Poetry...

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia [Book Review]
[Content Warnings: Incest, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Misogyny, and Gaslighting, Eugenics,...

My Purple Scented Novel by Ian McEwan [Book Review]
My Purple Scented Novel by Ian McEwan is a short story about two friends in the writing and book publishing world, highlighting the...

The Cockroach by Ian McEwan [Book Review]
The Cockroach by Ian McEwan is a satirical nod to Kafka’s Metamorphosis about cockroaches who have body swapped with leading British...

The Burning by Laura Bates [Book Review]
The Burning by Laura Bates centres itself on Anna Clark, who has had to uproot herself to Scotland after a scandal that broke out in her...

Winter by Ali Smith [Book Review]
Winter by Ali Smith is the second novel of her Seasonal Quarter, it follows Autumn, which I read in 2020. The book is set during the...

Lagom by Niki Brantmark
Lagom by Niki Brantmark is a non-fiction book following the lifestyle often lived in Sweden which centres on the word ‘lagom’, meaning...

Original Prin by Randy Boyagoda [Book Review]
Original Prin centres itself on Prin, a father, professor and Catholic, after his cancer diagnosis. Vowing to improve the quality of his...

Letters of Note: Love by Shaun Usher [Book Review]
Letters of Note: Love is a collection of love letters collected by Shaun Usher. The letters are written by people from across the world,...

Hello Now by Jenny Valentine [Book Review]
Hello Now by Jenny Valentine is a queer love story following Jude, someone weighed down by his name, his mothers long list of failed...

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima [Book Review]
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima is a 1950s novel which has been assumed to be something close to an autobiography of the author,...

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton [Book Review]
As much as I’d like to sit here and say that this is just another book by a millennial written for millennials and all about them and...

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor [Book Review]
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor centres itself on Himba woman Binti who decides to go against what her village expects of her and go to...
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