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Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 Longlist Announced

Last night marked one of the most notable dates on the Rare Birds calendar - the Women’s Prize for Fiction announced their 2023 longlist. In the capable hands of judges’...

What To Read After Seven Days In June

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...

NSFW: Book Title Edition

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...

The What’s Hot and What’s Not of an English Literature Degree

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...

What to read after A Discovery of Witches

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...

What to read after Girl, Woman, Other

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,...

What to read after It Ends With Us

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,...

What to read after Conversations with Friends

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...

Time To Judge A Book By Its Cover

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...