by VerveBooksBlog | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorised
Autumn is setting in, which means it’s time to start considering what books to read for the long nights. What books read best when the wind is rattling your window? Which plots stick with you when your feet feel cold in your fluffy socks? We’ve got a list...
by VerveBooksBlog | Aug 29, 2025 | Uncategorised
A few shows and films have absolutely been dominating our brains and social media this summer so to give you a break from the screens, here’s which books to read based on your binge-watching obsession! If you loved The Summer I Turned Pretty, you’ll...
by VerveBooksBlog | Aug 13, 2025 | Uncategorised
You wish a lot of things for a first novel, but for me, my hope, is the readers find the depiction of mental illness to be true. I was diagnosed with manic-depression (as it was then referred to) as a teenager in 1975. It would be another fifteen years before I...
by VerveBooksBlog | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorised
This has been one hot summer and it’s not over yet! We’re giving you the books we cannot wait to dive into before autumn arrives. Lisa’s Pick: Sunstruck by William Rayfet Outside of our own brilliant 2025 summer reads for July and August – Send...
by VerveBooksBlog | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorised
When I was a toddler, I told my mum that I wanted to ‘paint the flowers’. I didn’t mean I wanted to scrawl petals in childish brush strokes. I wanted to paint the actual flowers in our garden. I thought that they were so beautiful that some unseen artist must be...
