On Bee's Bookshelf

Jenny Green is dreading her Class of 2007 reunion. While her friends are killing it, Jenny's promising career as an artisanal baker went up in flames (literally) and her deadbeat, commitment-phobe boyfriend is cheating on her with their swishy-ponytailed neighbour. She feels like she didn't get the memo... As it turns out, she didn't. Begrudgingly back at university, she receives a text from an unlisted number: Jenny Green - please collect your memo. Hidden on her old campus is a secret female-led organisation providing memos to select students; blueprints for success. The first time around, Jenny didn't receive hers. Now she's being given a second chance - the opportunity to rewrite her past, undo her worst mistakes and fix her mess of a life. But at what price? A laughter-full riot of chaos and catastrophe that will make any 20-30 somethings who are waiting to feel like they’ve got it together cringe with its relatable and brutally honest story. Jenny is a hot mes...

You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is Ella.  Ella's with you at the party when you first kiss a girl.  And Ella takes you to the hospital the first time you're diagnosed. Over the next few years you have a string of relationships and jobs, but you can always count on Ella to be there for you - until the drinking and the parties, the hospital visits and late-night calls, blur the lines of your friendship into something unbalanced and fragile, at risk of breaking altogether. The worst part is you can see it coming. The worst part is you don't know how to stop. "You can't fight the feeling that there is something wrong with you, that you are made badly, that you are cold in some rigid, unchangeable way. When you confess these fears to Ella, she tells you that being sick doesn't make you unlovable." An affecting and delicate story with a hard-hitting concept and beautiful storytelling. From the first...

The landscape of the book world is changing - if you go back even ten years, book lovers had to rely on official journalists reviews and magazines for information about the latest releases; and often you'd find such formal reviews that didn't really tell you what you want to know. Book bloggers are now a key part of the publishing and book marketing journey, with a lot of us now turning to instagram, blogs and tiktok accounts to give us real opinions on old and new books.  This has completely changed the way we think of book marketing, with something once considered 'fringe media' or too niche taking over and becoming the new go-to destination for book recommendations and trends. Anthony Harvison, a publicist at Palamedes PR has taken the time to answer some questions about how book bloggers have changed how they do things:  Q: How has the landscape of book marketing evolved with the rise of book blogging, and what role does it play in promoting books? Book blogging has...