Lifestyle and Books
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
The Book A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom isn’t so much of a book as it is an experience, an experience that spans 2000 years, 47 countries, and legions of historical events. The story begins in Palestine in A.D.
What makes a home a home? The bones, the grass, the sky bleached white as its edges from heat – familiar and yet not, as if, flipping through an old book read once upon a time, they find the pages
With an endorsement from Bernardine Evaristo and a mention on The High Low podcast — the ultimate source of literary recommendations — it would have been wrong of me not to have read ‘The Vanishing Half.’ Stella and Desiree Vignes
