Salmacis: becoming not quite a woman – Elizabeth Train-Brown

Good morning and welcome to another blog tour! Today we are exploring the debut poetry collection Salmacis: becoming not quite a woman by Elizabeth Train-Brown with the wonderful Renard Press. Inspired by the tale of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and pagan folklore, this collection not only draws on the classical, but uses

Still Lives – Reshma Ruia

It seems like it’s better late than never joining the Still Lives blog tour all the way from Southern Italy! Thanks to Will at Renard Press for including me on this blog tour and for sending me an ARC in return for an honest review. Young, handsome and contemptuous of his father’s traditional ways, PK

This Week in Books

As I’ve been back at work this weekend, I haven’t had the chance to spend time on a review for this week – but I promise there’s a great one coming! Here’s this week’s news. Eddo-Lodge dominates the Book Charts Following Bernadine Evaristo’s success in the paperback fiction charts last week, Reni Eddo-Lodge has stormed