Halloween is almost upon is – it looks like this one will be spent indoors with a plethora of spooky content from Netflix and other streaming services, from our bookshelves […]
Category: books
Book review: I’ll Give You the Sun
I’ll Give You the Sun (2014) by Jandy Nelson is pure sunshine – from its bright yellow cover to its colourful, vivid cast of characters. Mid lockdown, it was just […]
Book Review: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
There’s something about Sally Rooney’s writing style that feels like home. It’s familiar and welcoming. I have thought before that the way she writes can be a little objective, like […]
2019 Book 3 | the Long Drop
I just finished ‘the Long Drop’ by Denise Mina and I really loved it! This book focusses on the story of real life 50’s serial killer Peter Manuel and […]
2019 Book 2 | Heart of Darkness
Part of studying modern literature and twentieth century texts involves reading Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness for me, but I couldn’t even finish it. When I’ve got so many […]
2019 Book 1 | ‘No Mean City’
Every time I brought out my copy of ‘No Mean City’ around my partners gran, she would remark that the book gave Glasgow a bad name, and I can see […]
Metiks Fade Trilogy Book Two Title and Blurb Revealed
Only months after the publication of debut novel Anna Undreaming, Thomas Welsh has announced the title and revealed the blurb for his next book, the second instalment of the Metiks […]
A non-stop adventure through an artful world that meets our own – thoughts on Anna Undreaming
Check out my interview with Thomas Welsh about Anna Undreaming before its release here Thomas Welsh’s debut novel Anna Undreaming was fantastic and because of its intensity, action and creativeness, I am […]