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Welcome along to The Book Companion Blog! Please explore the site, if you want more information about myself and the blog please click here. Reviews are aimed to be published at least once every two weeks however it may be more some months! To quickly find the books that have been reviewed you can click here, have …

Black and Blue: One Woman’s Story of Policing and Prejudice – Parm Sandhu

Racism in the Met has been in the news recently so this book seemed to be a good way to know more. The book is an honest reflection of how Sandhu was treated throughout her career at the Met facing both race and gender inequalities including the circumstance around her leaving the Met Normally I …

Instructions for Dancing – Nicola Yoon

I always LOVE a Yoon book, in fact I think Everything Everything was one of the first reviews I ever did after picking the book up in a supermarket. I did LIKE this one, just didn't fall in love with it like I have her other but lets look at this one without comparing it... …

In My Mind’s Eye: A Thought Diary – Jan Morris

As someone who rarely read the papers, I'd not heard of Jan Morris. I noticed the audiobook on my local library, it looked interested so I thought I might as well give it a go! The book is actually a collection of diary entries that were published in the Financial Times from 2017 - 2018. …

Haven’t You Heard?: Gossip, power, and how politics really works by Marie Le Conte

Haven’t you heard is something very different for me, politics is something that I vaguely follow but don’t have a KEEN interest like some of my friends. The book was interesting to find out how information goes through Westmintiser. To work there as an MP who doesn’t have a certain background it is a minefield, …

The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP by Dr Amir Khan

Every GP in the UK has 10 minutes to diagnose and start treatment for a patient, this is not enough for some patients at all causing surgery’s to run late and other patients to get annoyed. Dr Amir Khan is a GP in an inner-city GP practice, it seems he is already known from ‘GP’s …

Bomb Girls: Britain’s Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II by Jacky Hyams

During World War II everyone in the UK had to do their bit, each person their contribution was different - this book covers the young women who worked every day within the Munitions factories across the country. The women made bullets and explosives every day for the front line to help the country win the …

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

I was putting reading this book off for so long, I had such high hopes for the book and I didn’t want it to be a letdown. It truly wasn’t a let down in the end. Spoilers!! The Golden State Killer (GSK a term coined by Michelle) was a rapist and murderer within California for …

Holiday SOS – Ben Macfarlane

Dr Ben Macfarlane details his time as a travelling doctor working on behalf of insurance companies repatriating British patients back home from all over the world. I’ve never read a book about this before so found it particularly fascinating, Macfarlane tells us about a fair number of cases that he has worked, some with an …

Traces: The memoir of a forensic scientist and criminal investigator – Patricia Wiltshire

I find this book really rather tricky to review, there are parts of it that I really enjoyed and felt I learnt something but there was also an overwhelming amount of things written that I wasn’t so keen on. So I’ll split it into two; Let’s start with the worst points ⁃ An air of …

Fake Law: The truth about justice in an age of lies by The Secret Barrister

Fake law is the second book from The Secret Barrister, so far I’ve not actually picked up the first book but will try to shortly as I enjoyed this one! The book is primarily about misinformation surrounding the law in UK, what do we really know about the law? Is everything we think we know …