Jun 20, 20215 min readShame on Me – The Book Missing from the BLM Reading ListBy Georgia McInnes “I understood, without being able to articulate it, that language had a power to change me completely with the...
Dec 6, 20204 min readHow far would you go for pretty? The dichotomy of beauty in the uglies seriesScott Westerfeld’s Uglies Series is a trilogy that does a brilliant job of imagining a vast alternate universe, which is wholly...
Nov 16, 20204 min readSleep Has His House: What do our dreams mean?We are in a mental health crisis in the UK. Loneliness can easily root itself in our minds and grow into something ugly. Anna Kavan’s...
Oct 25, 20205 min readWhat the book?! | Magus, mania and mind games: Will you pass the test?Have you ever read a book and found yourself being tested or tricked? John Fowles, The Magus is a daring psychological thriller that not...
Oct 11, 20205 min readWhat the Book?! | Lockdown lessons: What we can learn from natureBy Robbie Sweeten In Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens has carefully crafted a story for the ages. As readers, we bear witness and...
Sep 27, 20204 min readWhat the Book?! | “Who’s afraid of big bad Virginia Woolf?” – Standing Up for OrlandoBy Isobel Warner It is undeniable that, no matter how experienced a reader you are, Virginia Woolf’s distinctive writing style of long...
Sep 20, 20205 min readWhat the book?! | Let’s build a ‘feminist city’ and lace it with misogyny by Leslie KernBy Syirxh Ami I hold many places close to my heart – Kuala Lumpur, Bristol and Singapore have all contributed to my worldview in some...
Sep 11, 20204 min readWhat the book?! | Please Look After Mother: How well do YOU know your Mother?Please Look After Mother is told through four different perspectives: through the daughter, the eldest son, the husband and lastly the...
Jul 31, 20203 min readWhat the book?! | Fahrenheit 451: A world without books?By Remi Trovo “If you can’t solve a problem, burn it” – Captain Beatty Imagine a world where the fire brigade start fires rather than put...
Jul 23, 20205 min readWhat the book?! | Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney is just like watching TVWe have all been there with literature. The pressure of reading the classics gets too much or you traipse through another boring chapter...