The foundations of what I come to expect from a contemporary romance were irrevocably rocked after finishing Tia Williams’ Seven Days in June last summer. Set amidst the sweltering, heady...
Have you ever found yourself out in public minding your own business ~ reading your little book ~ when you being to notice the furtive glances from the stranger across...
It’s been six, long, cold months since I graduated with a degree in English. The dated books. The nonsensical secondary readings. The ungodly hours spent in the library trying to...
Now a major TV series, Deborah Harkness’ novel A Discovery of Witches is the first in her All Souls sequence: a richly intricate tale about a witch, a vampire and...
Joint recipient of the 2019 Booker Prize, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo became the must-have book of the year, sparking a renewed interest in her back catalogue of novels,...
Colleen Hoover is currently taking the book world by storm, and her most popular novel yet has to be the devastating It Ends With Us, the tear-jerking story of Lily,...
Sally Rooney is a name that’s hard to escape. With three novels now under her belt, the young Irish author has skyrocketed to success. Her second novel, Normal People, was...
Okay so we've all heard the age old phrase, 'don't judge a book by its cover', and it's pretty sage advice. When applied to the real world I completely support...
When someone mentions reading poetry, I'm transported back to my damp and dank GCSE English classroom. It's a Tuesday afternoon and your teacher is insisting upon the incessant dissection of...
