I really, really like twitter. Haters, celebrity obsessives and angsty teenagers aside, there are some absolute geniuses pumping out little nuggets of comedy gold almost 24 hours a day. Some of the greatest examples […]
Books: New Review: A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
The title may suggest a work of non-fiction, and its chapters headed by snippets from a real-life guide, but Suzanne Joinson’s stylish debut is actually a wonderfully literary slip into time. In 1923 […]
Books: New Review: Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
Within the first few pages of Zoo Time Guy Ableman, Howard Jacobson’s unlikely hero, is abused by an unruly reading group for hating all women and children, reprimanded for stuffing his face with a […]
Books: New Review: Waiting For Sunrise by William Boyd
Like any novel with William Boyd’s name on it, Waiting For Sunrise oozes class and sophistication. Those eleven little letters on the front of the novel are, for many readers, enough to know it is […]
New Review: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller’s outstanding debut is the winner of the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction and the novel that had celebrities like Russell Tovey crying poolside this summer. This is ‘Greece in the age of […]