by VerveBooksBlog | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorised
When I wrote my first novel, Sunburn, I was keen to write a very queer, very Irish story. I never imagined that people from countries all over the world would relate to it. The push and pull of both loving and rejecting your home town; living in a quiet, conservative...
by VerveBooksBlog | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorised
This Halloween, VERVE authors are bringing you their scariest reads for the spooky season. Add these recs to your TBRs and prepare to be terrified. Zee Carlstrom Picks: TENDER IS THE FLESH by Agustina Bazterrica Let’s kick things off strong with an Argentinian novel...
by VerveBooksBlog | Sep 23, 2025 | Uncategorised
I hung back as my husband waited for his turn to speak to the woman at the desk. Why? Because I knew he was going to ask politely to see a man’s severed head. We were in a museum in Pavia, Italy, where my husband was attending a medical conference. It’s partly because...
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...
