Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Top 10 favourite reads of 2025

10. Don’t fear the reaper - Stephen Graham Jones

Complex and twisty. A superior slasher. Book two in the Indian Lake Trilogy. Stephen Graham Jones is phenomenal.

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Top 10 favourite reads of 2025

9. Dead Mountain - Donnie Eichar

Another great non-fiction pick. A compelling and haunting true story that is as gripping as any piece of fiction I’ve read. You couldn’t make it up.

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Top 10 favourite reads of 2025

8. Here - Richard McGuire

Masterful, artistic, abstract and thought provoking.
I have not seen the film and have no intention of seeing it, as I’m convinced it will get nowhere near to doing it justice.

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7. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman

My dark horse pick of the year. I don’t expect to enjoy this as much as I did. Absolutely bonkers and SO.MUCH. FUN! Officially obsessed.

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6. The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt

First non-fiction on the list and it’s a corker. Compelling, evidence based and practical. We can all do more to protect our young people and there is nothing stopping us doing the things Haidt suggests.

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5. Strange Pictures - Uketsu

Fun, creepy, mysterious. Very enjoyable and the illustrations make it extra special.

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4. The Will of the Many - James Islington

Move over Harry Potter and Lyra Belacqua. This dark academia fantasy is far superior in every way. The protagonist, the writing and the story are all engaging and exciting. I am hooked.
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Top 10 favourite reads of 2025.

3. Bear Season - Gemma Fairclough

This novel is part investigative journalism, part true crime, part allegory and fairytale and academic thesis all rolled into one! I loved it. Just wanted it to be longer!
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Top 10 books of 2025.

2. Come Closer - Sara Gran

I polished this off in a couple of days. Really creepy, properly scary. Psychological horror at its best.

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Posting my top ten reads of 2025. One a day.

1. Nausicaa of the valley of the wind - Hayao Miyazaki

Some of the most beautiful and intricate art work I have ever seen and a wonderful story.
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Well, this one came out of left field. I don’t think I would have even picked it up in a bookshop, but I’m soooo glad I got this recommendation. It is the MOST fun. Completely bonkers, but hilarious and SO. MUCH. FUN. Carl and Princess Donut furever! 😉

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Update: Finished and the end was as brilliant as the start. ❤️

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

- Aldous Huxley

Posting this before I’ve even finished it because it’s that good. 100 pages read this morning alone!

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I really enjoyed this book. Great characters, great concept and just the right amount of stomach churning horror.

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Love Wes Anderson so doing this puzzle over the Easter hols was great fun. Just annoyed about the missing piece!

Beautiful cover art.
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Watched Blue Giant last night. What an amazing anime. The music was fantastic and it almost felt like you were watching a live performance. Jazz lover or not, this is for everyone.

Just watched the first episode of Adolescence and all I can say is ‘Wow’. Powerful and affecting. Stephen Graham is outstanding and the episode done all in one take adds to the tension and realism. Looking forward to episode 2, if my heart can take it!

This series is an absolute masterpiece. I’m on the edge of my seat in every volume. The artwork, the story, the characters. It has everything.

Rewatching Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. Just so good. Great performances. Perfectly poignant.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The Fellowship of the Ring
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Laird Baron is a fantastic writer. I’ve read all the Isaiah Coleridge books and loved them, this novella being no exception. What an iconic character. The cover art is pretty cool too.

I am a big fan of Ghibli movies. I really enjoyed Nausicaa, so I bought the graphic novel box set and I am blown away. The art work is just stunning. Miyazaki is a genius.

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

Spring is starting to show…

‘There is no time like Spring that passes by,
Now newly born, and now
Hastening to die.’

Spring - Christina Rosetti

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?…A book must be like an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

- Franz Kafka