(My Book 2 of the Year!) Through the lens of philosophical deliberations, Sophie Ward explores one story of many loves in her 2020 novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments. Over […]
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Book Review: Expectation (2020) by Anna Hope
Anna Hope’s Expectation explores close female friendships, motherhood and infertility, infidelity and adapting to a life that isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It follows Hannah, Cate and Lissa, […]
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 […]
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 […]