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The Readhead Reviews: The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill is a gritty, magical fairytale – an intoxicating love story with a dark heart. Set in 1920s Montreal, the story follows two orphans with big dreams, Rose and Pierrot. From their desperate beginnings, filled with trauma and danger, they create their own worlds – fantasies which they make realities filled with clowns, music, chorus girls and dancing bears,…
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The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Some time ago you might have seen my review of Arden’s first novel, The Bear and the Nightingale. In this review I raved about how much I fell in love with the world Arden illustrates so wonderfully – a romantic but brutal medieval Russia, filled with spirits, superstition, religion and magic. The Bear and the Nightingale quickly became one of my favourite books and authors of the year, and has…
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The Readhead Reviews: The Love Witch
What says romance like a feminist Technicolour 60s witch narrative? Throw in some sex magic, murder and pathological narcissism and you’ve got yourself a date.
AND it’s directed by a woman – the immensely talented Anna Biller. Like music to my ears…
The Love Witch’s leading character is the bewitching Elaine (perfectly portrayed Samantha Robinson), a stunning young witch who has recently moved…
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The Readhead Reviews: Circe by Madeline Miller
‘It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment’s carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.’
I said in my Female Voices blog that over the course of my women-only reading I’d found a few new all-time favourite authors and books. Circeby Madeline Miller is absolutely one of them. This book glows, its radiant, it’s…
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A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
It’s a common trope that women are fiercely competitive with one another. As Midorikawa and Sweeney note, many popular female authors were cast as solitary, eccentric figures, unique in their success and isolated without peers. In comparison, the friendships of male authors like Shelley and Byron or Hemingway and Fitzgerald are made legendary.
So it’s refreshing to see, not just in the writing…
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The Readhead Reviews: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
This line from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, incidentally one of my favourite lines in literature, is where Maggie O’Farrell found her title for her memoir. Strangely, I found myself reading her striking stories, adorned with an anatomical heart growing flowers, the same week I got an…
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Female Voices: Why I read women writers
About a year ago I noticed something – the last 5 books I’d read had all been by women. Come to think of it, I couldn’t remember the last male author I’d read – it had been months. This was completely accidental, done unintentionally and unconsciously, but it soon became a personal challenge to keep exploring female voices.
I can’t say why, exactly, this started. Perhaps, after completing a BA…
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The Readhead Relaunch
The Readhead Relaunch Coming soon with a shiny new site, shiny new instagram and some shiny new books with a friendly feminist feel... Stay tuned!
Hi Guys!
Long time no read, I know. Things have been pretty hectic on this end, but I just wanted to let you know that The Readhead is relaunching soon, with a shiny new site, shiny new instagram and some shiny new books with a friendly feminist feel…
I’m really excited to start focusing on books, both fiction on non-fiction, written by female authors. I set myself a challenge about 9 months ago…
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The Power
Review of The Power by @naomialderman, both fascinating and disturbing - not your average book
“She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She’d put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.” I’ve been putting off writing this review for a while because I’m still not 100% sure how I feel about it. Naomi Alderman’s novel The Power…
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Happy National Poetry Day!
Happy #NationalPoetryDay ! @PoetryDayUK
Happy National Poetry Day everyone! This years theme is ‘Freedom’, so here’s a poem from Claude McKay, recommended by the National Poetry Day website. Check out their other poems, let me know your favourite or any suggestions of other great freedom poetry. I Know My Soul by Claude McKay I plucked my soul out of its secret place, And held it to the mirror of my eye, To see it like a star…
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Dreams and Shadows
For fans of Neil Gaiman and Del Toro, check out C. Robert Cargill's Dreams and Shadows!
‘Prounounced “ben-dith uh mo-may,” a Welsh phrase meaning “mother’s blessing,” they are the chief child thieves of any fairy court, and the first to whom a community will turn when they desire fresh infants. Each community has its own differing needs, but a thriving, healthy court will often call upon their Bendith Y Mamau to tend to the acquisition of living mortals.’ From the novelist,…
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The Readhead's Top 7 Banned Books
The Readhead's Top 7 Banned Book list, for all you rebels out there
What’s the best way to gain a cult following? Have your book banned. There’s nothing more intriguing than a book banned for ‘indecency’, being told it’s ‘obscene’ and ‘inappropriate.’ Tell us we can’t read something and that’s all we want to do (we’re simple, rebellious folk.) Books piled high on fires (the greatest sacrilege) will always find their way into our hands – so here’s The Readhead’s…
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Himself
New Review for #Himself @JessKiddHerself Such a fun read!
‘Great ferns had unfurled all around the child, tree roots had surrounded him and ivy had sprung up to cloak him. Branches had bent low over his tiny head and had shaken a blessing of leaves down onto him. Badgers had banked earth all around him with their strong claws, shifting the soil furiously. So that when the man looked about himself he could not find the child, however hard he searched.’…
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Little Deaths by Emma Flint
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
“They don’t know guilt. They’re not mothers.” Little Deaths, Emma Flint’s debut novel, is a brilliantly dark noir gem which kept me captivated from the get-go. Set in the sweaty summer of 1985 in Queens, New York, Ruth Malone awakes to find her two young children missing. Immediately all eyes are on Ruth, the glamorous young mother in perfect make-up and tight clothes, her apartment filled with…
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The Bear and the Nightingale
The Bear and the Nightingale review #the_readhead #bookreview
‘Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.’ Katherine Arden’s debut novel The Bear and the Nightingale follows the irresistibly wild young heroine Vasya in the wilderness of ancient Russia. Far from the big cities, Vasya’s world is one of snow, hardship, and old folklore surrounding the Winter King. Offerings of bread are…
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Swimmer Among the Stars
Review of A Swimmer Among the Stars and treat from Picador - five short stories to read now!
‘The bride has never wanted to be a bride, but rather an astronaut (“swimmer among the stars”), and fair enough, why should brides be brides when they can be astronauts? In space, the astronaut dances between satellites (“invisible lightning moths”) and befriends the moon.’ Ooooh, Picador has given us a treat. Yesterday Picador collected a few short stories together for us to read to give us a…
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The Hidden People
The Readhead's review of The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood
Just for those of you who don’t know me – I’m obsessed with folklore, Victorians and the supernatural. So when I found a book set in the 19th century about a woman whose been accused of being a fairy and subsequently burnt alive, I was most definitely excited. This is the essential blurb of Alison Littlewood’s The Hidden People. When Albie Mirralls hears that his beautiful cousin Lizzie Higgs,…
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