Blind date with a book
Genre Guide - Choose Your Literary Adventure!
Thriller - Books that will make you double-check your door locks and question every stranger on the bus. Perfect for readers who enjoy having their heart rate monitored by their Fitbit whilst reading.
Crime - Murder, mayhem, and brilliant detectives who solve cases faster than the local police can finish their tea break. Warning: May cause you to analyse every person at the coffee shop as a potential suspect.
Romance - Love stories that will make you believe in soulmates again, or at least make you text your ex (please don't). Tissues recommended for happy tears and swooning incidents.
Mystery - Puzzles wrapped in enigmas, served with a side of "who dunnit?" Perfect for readers who fancy themselves as amateur detectives and shout answers at the telly during murder mysteries.
Historical Fiction - Time travel without the awkward explaining-your-mobile-phone situation. Experience different eras whilst safely tucked up in your modern central heating.
SCI-FI - Robots, space travel, and futures that make you grateful for your current problems. May cause existential thoughts about the universe and sudden urges to learn about quantum physics.
Fantasy - Dragons, magic, and worlds where the biggest worry is defeating dark lords rather than paying council tax. Escapism at its finest.
Romanticy - Romance with a fantasy twist! Love stories featuring vampires, werewolves, and other creatures who are surprisingly good at commitment. Jane Austen meets Twilight's distant cousin.
Chic-lit - Modern women navigating life, love, and careers whilst wearing fabulous shoes. Think Sex and the City but in book form, with 100% more relatable problems.
Young Adult - Coming-of-age stories that will make you nostalgic for your teenage years (the good bits, anyway). Features protagonists who are surprisingly mature for their age and excellent at saving the world.
Psychological Thriller - Mind games, unreliable narrators, and plots that will have you questioning your own sanity. Perfect for readers who enjoy having their brain thoroughly scrambled.
Contemporary Romance - Love in the modern world, complete with dating apps, social media mishaps, and relationships that survive despite GPS arguments. Romance for the Netflix generation.
Spicy - Romance with the heat turned up to 11. For readers who aren't afraid of a bit of steam fogging up their reading glasses. Not suitable for reading on public transport unless you have an excellent poker face.
Classic - The books your English teacher insisted were brilliant, and it turns out they were absolutely right. Timeless stories that have survived centuries of literary criticism and teenage eye-rolling.
Smut - Unashamedly steamy romance that makes Fifty Shades look like a children's bedtime story. For readers who like their love stories with extra spice and zero apologies.
LGBTQ+ - Love stories celebrating the beautiful diversity of human relationships. Romance, drama, and happily-ever-afters for everyone, because love is love and good stories are good stories.