All posts by: Georgia Rose

  I chose to read this book as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author. This does not alter my review in any way. Love, Loss and Life in Between is a short book made up of around ten short stories. I read it over one day. Spirit […]

  I chose to read this book as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author. This does not alter my review in any way. After taking up a job which required this author to pack up and move to Italy, she was then made redundant 15 months later. […]

  This is a collection of thoughts and impressions presented as poems and short stories and as such the title is an excellent one. I received a copy of this book some time ago now and it has taken a while to get to it but eventually it’s made its way to the top of […]

Brave Vulnerable is a collection of poetry that I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. It is actually a collection of poems, prose and quotes the author has written while she was travelling. Each scene represents a moment that many will find familiar or will have empathy for. However, as well as finding these poems a delight […]

  The author of these poems states at the front of the book that this collection has been written as an experiment in Word Painting. The Roman poet, Horace, said that poets, like painters, conceptualised their ideas visually, a painter with colours, a poet with words. Fairbairn therefore wants these poems to be ‘seen’ and […]

  Along with my love of horses I have a passion for Westerns having been brought up on a healthy diet of them and as all my first crushes were (apart from Elvis) cowboy based I daresay I had something of a romantic view of them. When I grew up, I realised how hard the […]

I read the paperback of this book, a gift from a friend a while ago now. It’s been waiting on a pile for me to get to it and I’m so pleased I did. Amy Blue is a diazepam-fogged young woman struggling with life as she exists in a grotty flat in Balmoral Street, which […]