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...
by VerveBooksBlog | Jun 23, 2025 | Uncategorised
If you’ve ever plucked your eyebrows then wondered if it was anti-feminist, welcome to my spirit canoe. It is a place of wanting cake and eating it off a strange cultural plate, where we get tangled in reclaiming our power and losing it in the same stroke. Beauty is...
by VerveBooksBlog | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorised
Happy Pride! There are stacks of wonderful books that I could recommend you to read this month, but here are five of my favourites. This list has a little bit of everything, including joyous celebrations of queerness, the rejection of gender roles, and some of the...
by VerveBooksBlog | Jun 1, 2025 | Uncategorised
Happy Pride Month! This month, we’re recommending our favourite queer reads and which queer bookshop you should get them from based on your area! Lisa’s pick: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (**spoiler alerts!**) – OK, OK so Taylor Jenkins...
by VerveBooksBlog | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorised
I want to spotlight a subtype of sci-fi: stories that take complex scientific ideas and ground them in the tender, the subtle, the specific, and the personal. They move us, gently yet insistently, to question what it is to be human. Here are a few of my favourite...
