The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Labelled by some as historical fiction and others as science fiction, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is a book that…
Book review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Some books are so famous that it seems redundant to review them, but it's always nice to see a classic…
Book review: Book review: Regeneration by Pat Barker
Regeneration is a different type of war book to what readers or students might be used to, with the action…
Review: The Way to Paradise
Books can either reflect the world as the reader already knows it, but in a new and surprising way, or…
Freedom Song, Amit Chaudhuri
It feels as if spring has gone on strike, enabling winter to continue until December. The mercury is sluggish and…
On Love, Alain de Botton
From the popularity of The Bachelor to the amount of paraphernalia surrounding Valentine’s Day, it seems that romance is having…
As sweet as a madeleine by the Seine – The Little Paris Bookshop, Nina George
I usually prefer books that can be described as moving, heartbreaking, uplifting or captivating. I like to be lifted up…
Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
Oh Billy Pilgrim, you are one of a kind. Has there ever been a character so pitiable, so pathetic, but…
The Natural Way of Things – misogyny out loud
Sometimes it is not the spoken but the whispered threat that is the most menacing. So it is with sexism.…
Charlotte Gray shines a light on the children of the Holocaust
It is very difficult to empathise with people we have never met, who lived a long time ago, in a…
