Hi, my name is Sarah, and I love all things nineteenth century. I studied English at uni and during my second year I realised how much I loved Victorian literature so made that my focus for third year and my MA. You’ll notice a theme of late-Victorian Gothic going on with a few of my…
Category: fiction
A Fascination with Crime
I’ve been fascinated with crime since my teens. I’m pretty sure it began with my grandad; no he wasn’t a criminal, but he loved watching crime shows and since I lived with my grandparents, I naturally began watching them with him. We’d watch CSI together every week and I’d imagine being a forensic scientist when…
Before We Met – Lucie Whitehouse: Book Review
It’s been a while since my last book review and I’m incredibly sorry for that. I’ve been having a love/hate relationship with fiction lately, but we’ll discuss that another time. You know they say you should never judge a book by its cover? Well, I picked this up because of its cover. Before We Met is a…
Relationship with Writing
When my Nan died, amongst her things I found a little poem I’d written her when I was five, about a ghost who liked toast (clearly a child genius in the making) – as soon as I could write, I did.I love writing. That’s my thing, my talent – some might say. I find it relaxing;…
Bleed For Me – Michael Robotham: Book Review
I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for quite a while now. I went through a phase of buying too many books whilst I was doing my English degree, and unable to read them because my reading list for my uni course was too vast. Alas, I finally picked it up and I want…
The Museum of Extraordinary Things – Alice Hoffman: Book Review
I picked this book up on a whim when I was browsing in Waterstones. I judged a book by it’s cover, it intrigued me and when I read the synopsis I knew I had to have it. ‘A tale of star-crossed lovers set against a creepy, gothic backdrop of freak shows, murder and mystery.’ Independent‘Entrancing…Hoffman has…