Lifestyle and Books
The Unsinkable Greta James The Unsinkable Greta James follows 36-year-old Greta James, an indie rockstar and guitarist, who’s trying to pick up the pieces of her life after her mother’s sudden death. Still reeling from her loss, as well as...
The Mermaid of Black Conch Near the island of Black Conch, an imaginary Caribbean island in the late 1900s, a fisherman sings to himself while waiting for a catch. But David attracts a sea-dweller that he never expected – Aycayia,...
Blending personal memoir, travelogue and nature writing, Underland explores and interrogates the relationship between man & landscape, the instability of time and place, and most significantly, the fragility of all we are and all we create.⠀⠀Written with lyricism, power and...
The Book “Become a writer. Write about going to the moon.”“I don’t want to write about astronauts going to the moon. I want to be one.”“Write in first-person then.” Adam dreams to be like his heroes – Neil Armstrong, Yuri...
The Book In Ghosts by Dolly Alderton, we meet Nina, a successful food writer, on her 32nd birthday and the start of “the strangest” year of her life. What follows is 365 days of ghosts in every metaphorical sense: the...
The Book One of the surprises of the Booker Prize longlist this year was the number of debut authors. But, after having read Brandon Taylor’s Real Life, C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold, and now Shuggie...
The Book One afternoon, in a town in south-eastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colourful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to...
The Book Dirty, funny, messy, wild, I tore through this bold and brutal debut in a delirious 24 hours, and it was brilliant. Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from...
12 Classic Novels in 12 Months
Way back in January I laid out some personal goals for 2019; one of them was to read 12 classic nove...
‘The Midnight Library’ Book Review
Nora Seed has hit an all-time low. After losing her cat, her job, and is full of regret, she takes h...
‘Boy Parts’ by Eliza Clark Book Review
The Book Dirty, funny, messy, wild, I tore through this bold and brutal debut in a delirious 24 hour...
An Autumn Reading List
As a literature student, autumn reading means heading back to university and ploughing through stack...
