by VerveBooksBlog | Mar 8, 2026 | Uncategorised
Happy International Women’s Day! Today, we’re bringing you fiction that features ‘difficult’ women. What does this mean? It means we’re shouting out books that feature women who are deemed – either by characters in the novel itself...
by VerveBooksBlog | Feb 24, 2026 | Uncategorised
The End of Romance is very loosely based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel Enemies, A Love Story, which came out in Yiddish in 1966 and English in 1972. I read it in 2019, at which point I had been immersing myself in American Jewish literature for a decade, but it was...
by VerveBooksBlog | Feb 11, 2026 | Uncategorised
Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! We’re bringing you queer historical fiction recs that you simply must five into! Knowing your queer history is important, so try to pick up a book with great queer representation to enjoy throughout the year! Ellie’s pick:...
by VerveBooksBlog | Jan 28, 2026 | Uncategorised
In December 2016, roughly a month after Trump snatched power for the first time, I traveled to London to visit one of my very best friends. While there, almost every UK resident I met asked me a version of the question: How could you let this happen? At the time, I...
by VerveBooksBlog | Dec 18, 2025 | Uncategorised
We’ve got a list of book recs and films that will be keeping us company during the long winter break! Ellie’s guide: At the top of my Christmas wishlist this year are Malala Yousafzai’s new memoir, Finding My Way – which promises...
by VerveBooksBlog | Nov 20, 2025 | Uncategorised
It is the end of a long day. You have been working at a job you don’t like much but can’t leave because everything is dangerously expensive. You have trudged to the train station through the dark, through some puddles. At work in your breaks you checked the news and...
