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Beautiful Books #2 | Favourite Book Covers

It’s been a while since my first Beautiful Books post and I’ve – obviously – added a few more stunning books to my collection. Here are more of my current favourites.

How To Be A Heroine by Samantha Ellis | Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Remix by Non Pratt

First up! Colour! So much colour! I’ve been wanting to read How To Be A Heroine for ages and the cover sums up the entire premise of the book in such a bold way. I’ve already waxed poetic about the various Alice In Wonderland covers for Alice’s Day, but it only hit me that fateful Alice’s Day morning I didn’t actually own a copy of the book myself! I spent a truly embarrassing amount of time in Waterstones comparing editions but I eventually settled on the 2012 Penguin English Library edition. It feels a bit different with it’s little flamingos from the croquet match in the book, I also love the contrast between the yellow/hot pink and the grey. Remix is close to being one of the most fun YA books covers I’ve seen in a long time. Again, it was the bright and bold colours that caught my eye as well as the festival inspired theme to the typography, illustrations and blurb.

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August 21, 2015
Reading Wrap Up #4

*images via Goodreads

It’s just over six months into the year and I’m finally in the double digits on my reading challenge *throws confetti*. It’s been a busy couple of weeks but definitely time to check in with you guys and update you all on what I’ve been reading recently…

The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow | Katherine Woodfine

Sinclair’s Department Store would like to welcome you through it’s gilt doors and into a world of extravagance and commercial wonder. And it’s within these pristine, prestigious and polished walls, our four unlikely heroes, Sophie, Billy, Lil, and Joe cross paths. When the one of a kind Clockwork Sparrow is stolen from Sinclair’s brand new exhibition their worlds are turned upside down as they race to figure out just who stole the Clockwork Sparrow.

Super fast paced and almost cinematic, Clockwork Sparrow is a heck of a rollicking good time in book form with the added bonus of a plucky underdog story too. Woodfine’s writing is fantastically descriptive creating a rich world of Victorian London, without it feeling like a heavy historical novel, and this is demonstrated perfectly in her descriptions of Sinclair’s. Clockwork Sparrow is certainly a page turner – if somewhat predictable – but super fun, nonetheless. Perfect book to take with you on holiday or to blaze through on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Check out my full review on Blogger’s Bookshelf.

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July 28, 2015
Haul | LFCC & YALC 2015

This past weekend I dragged myself out of bed bright and early in the morning and headed up to London for this year’s London Film and Comic Con (LFCC) and Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC), at Kensington Olympia.

As well as being a fantastic day out with Erin (we were repping Team BB at YALC!), I did go a bit overboard with purchases…safe to say I’m on a shopping ban for a while now!

Here’s what I picked up…

So the first lot of this haul I picked up from YALC. I was so impressed at how many publisher stands were there this year compared to last, not to mention Waterstones taking up an entire section too. There were so many books I wanted to pick up but I resisted too much temptation and picked up four.

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July 22, 2015