The Bibliophile's Compass

2013 | 📖 MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood | Canada | 394 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @therealmargaretatwood 2019 | 📖 Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch | Ireland | 192 pages | @paullynchauthor 2023 | 📖 Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias | Costa Rica / United States | 288 pages | 🏆🏆 | @johnmanuelarias 2023 | 📖 Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel | Canada | 223 pages | 🏆 | 2024 | 📖 I Died at Fallow Hall by Bonnie Burke-Patel | United Kingdom | 256 pages | 🏆 | @bonnieburkepatel 2024 | 📖 Cuckoo by Nell Frizzell | United Kingdom | 342 pages | @nellfrizzell 2024 | 📖 The Secrets of Flowers by Sally Page | United Kingdom | 336 pages | 2024 | 📖 Virginia Lane is Not a Hero by Rosalind Stopps | United Kingdom | 346 pages | @rosalindstopps

1844 | 📖 The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe | United States | 25 pages | ⭐⭐⭐ | 2003 | 📖 Double Vision by Pat Barker | United Kingdom | 272 pages | 2014 | 📖 Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood | Canada | 273 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | @therealmargaretatwood 2014 | 📖 How to Be Both by Ali Smith | United Kingdom | 374 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 2014 | 📖 Standing Heavy by Armand Patrick Gbaka-Brédé | Ivory Coast / France | 168 pages | 🏆 | 2025 | 📖 And Then There Was You by Miranda Dickinson | United Kingdom | 416 pages | @wurdsmyth 2025 | 📖 Helm by Sarah Hall | United Kingdom | 368 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2025 | 📖 Blood Angels by Christoffer Petersen | Denmark | 37 pages |

Title : Head Above Water Author : Buchi Emecheta Publication Year : 1986 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Pages : 229 Source : ebook Genre : Nonfiction, autobiography I have been working on Buchi Emecheta’s novels and have already read ten of her books, but I never expected to enjoy her autobiography more than her fiction. I was completely wrong. Head Above Water feels like the behind-the-scenes counterpart to her novels: the uncensored context behind the anger, struggle, and urgency that shape her fiction. In her novels, Emecheta often seems intensely angry at the injustices faced by women, migrants, mothers, and Black communities. After reading this autobiography, I realized that anger was not excessive at all. If anything, it was restrained. The book offers a direct connection to the experiences behind In the Ditch , Second-Class Citizen , The Joys of Motherhood , and her essays. I have not read The Joys of Motherhood yet, but learning about the circumstances that led her to write it was...

2012 | 📖 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman | Sweden | 337 pages | 🏆 | @backmansk 2015 | 📖 The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett | United Kingdom | 276 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | 2025 | 📖 My Sister's Only Hope by Alison Ragsdale | United Kingdom | 312 pages | @alisonragsdalewrites