Book Review: Chronicles: Volume 1 by Bob Dylan
I don’t usually read memoirs, or much non-fiction of any type, but I was curious about reading Bob Dylan’s book…
Book Review: The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
I am no modern art lover – at best I am curious and at worst I am bewildered. However, in…
Book Review: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Sibling relationships are at the heart of many novels, with Little Women, My Family and Other Animals and The Cement…
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Childhood never seems as close by as when you read it in a book. That is particularly true of reading…
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…
