The bittersweet sense of an ending
My husband and I recently finished watching The Bureau on SBS, a series that followed the French intelligence service as…
I’m suffering from bookish FOMO
I’m about to start reading The Dictionary of Lost Words and I can’t get into it quickly enough. You see,…
How would you be described in a book?
Writers can be brutal in their descriptions of their minor characters. While the protagonist is usually complex and multilayered, writers…
Is there a sweet spot between high literature and the beach read?
I have been reading Apeirogon by Colum McCann, a book that I heard widely praised by critics last year. I…
Olive’s ordinariness is just the tonic for extraordinary times
I’ve been reading Elisabeth Strout's Olive, Again and in doing so have been reminded of how endearing the often grumpy,…
I wonder what my favourite literary introverts would think of lockdown
Like no other disaster before it, the coronavirus lockdown has separated the introverts from the extroverts. As news of the…
My favourites … updated
As Victoria looks ahead to months of lockdown, and readers rely on great books for consolation, distraction and entertainment, here…
I’ve got a soft spot for Lydia Bennet
A character that we all love to hate can make a book. There’s Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter, Tom Buchanan…
From Pride and Prejudice to Normal People – love stories in literature
Normal People is in the news, but this time the fuss is not about the book, but about the television…
Book review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Could Pride and Prejudice be the perfect isolation read during the coronavirus pandemic? Funny, escapist and romantic, it just might…
