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  • Wing Jones – Katherine Webber

    Wing Jones – Katherine Webber

    Title: Wing Jones Author: Katherine Webber Year Published: 2017 Source: own copy Goodreads link:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25909375-wing-jones Synopsis: “Jandy Nelson meets Friday Night Lights: a sweeping story about love and family from an exceptional new voice in YA. With a grandmother from China and another from Ghana, fifteen-year-old Wing Jones is often caught between worlds. But when tragedy…

  • Month In Review: January 2017

    Month In Review: January 2017

    Welcome to my month in review! This will be a monthly feature where I highlight the books I’ve read/theatre, films & tv I’ve watched and other exciting things that’s happened!

  • Death Takes A Holiday @ The Charing Cross Theatre

    Death Takes A Holiday @ The Charing Cross Theatre

    Death Takes A Holiday is a show with music by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan set shortly after World War One. Death has disguised himself as a young prince and visits a rich family to discover why death is so feared. The show is directed by Thom Sutherland whose…

  • Book Buying Tag

    Book Buying Tag

    Today, I bring you the Book Buying Tag. I have seen this tag do the rounds on Booktube and wanted to do it! 1. Where do you buy your books from? My go to points are either independent bookshops, Waterstones or Foyles. If I’m ordering online then Waterstones, Foyles or Hive.co.uk. Only as a last…

  • Half A Sixpence @ Noel Coward Theatre

    Half A Sixpence @ Noel Coward Theatre

    Half A Sixpence has indeed landed in London with a massive flash, bang, wallop. Based on the H.G Wells novel Kipps, the show follows Arthur Kipps who unexpectedly inherits a fortune and is led to London from his home in East Grinstead to become a gentleman. As well as using David Heneker’s music from the…

  • Three Fantastic #UKYA | Birdy, Radio Silence & Beautiful, Broken Things

    Three Fantastic #UKYA | Birdy, Radio Silence & Beautiful, Broken Things

    I had a massive reading binge over the Christmas break. What with the office being closed and being on a blogging break, I certainly had the time to get down to it. Here are three fantastic young adult books that I read over the break. Birdy – Jess Vallance Birdy is a fantastic, thrilling ride…

  • A Sappy Post About Impractical Jokers

    A Sappy Post About Impractical Jokers

    Things you may not know about me: I love comedy. I love good comedy that makes people laugh without feeling like it has to offend a group of people to be funny.With The Tenderloins and their show Impractical Jokers, you get a group of friends who have known each other for 20+ years bantering with…

  • Introducing: A Girl With A Plan

    Introducing: A Girl With A Plan

    Welcome to my new blogging series! Over the last couple of years or so, I have turned into a slightly hardcore planner. I don’t plan down to the minute but I also can’t do last minute plans nor can I do spontaneity. This is a new series where I will showcase different Etsy stores I…

  • Books To Get To In 2017.

    Books To Get To In 2017.

    I have seen posts and videos and tweets all about the book related challenges people are taking on this year. Now, I use the goodreads goal. And I barely scraped it in 2016. I’ve decided to keep my 2017 challenge at 60 books, so I can make more time for reading and cut down my…

  • Lazarus @ the King’s Cross Theatre

    Lazarus @ the King’s Cross Theatre

    Inspired by the book by Walter Trevis, Lazarus is a surrealist, technologically fantastical piece of musical theatre about a man names Thomas Newton who has fallen to earth, he then, meets a girl that only he can see, who is trying to figure out why she’s there to help him. We also follow other people…

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