Those yet to read Midnight’s Children shouldn’t be put off by its length – at over six hundred pages it’s a pretty hefty book – but every one of those pages is worth the effort. […]
Books: New Review: Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Many people would give their life to attain a fraction of the achievements and talent Christopher Hitchens had. With over twenty books published; reportage, essays, literary criticism and columns, ‘Hitch’ really did give his […]
Books: New Review: The Forrests by Emily Perkins
The Forrests captures the essence of the physical world through the sensory vision of Dorothy, the eldest daughter in the Forrests family, and is a novel about kinship, family, and change. It is a […]
Books: New Review: Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
Silent House is not a new novel, in fact it is almost 30 years old. However it has only recently been translated into English, giving us an insight into Turkish politics during the turbulent […]
Books: New Review: Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis
After carefully constructing pockets of genius across the literary stratosphere in his heyday, it now seems Amis-junior is pretty content on churning them out. With little thought given to who he is writing about […]
Books: Book of the Film: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Dostoevsky called it “flawless as a work of art”, William Faulkner declared it the best novel ever written, and it has been referenced everywhere in the succeeding literary canon from Chekov to Lemony Snicket. But […]
Global Read: Krakow: Winter Under Water by John Hopkin
Winter Under Water tells the constrained love story of Marta and Joseph. A story where love has no boundaries; geographical or emotional. It is a story of two estranged identities which part almost as soon […]
Books: New Review: The Obamas by Jodi Kantor
Will Obama manage to cling on to the presidency when the results of the US elections are announced later this evening? If Jodi Kantor is anyone to go by, Michelle will power him through, […]
Books: New Review: Churchill, The Power of Words by Martin Gilbert
In the run up to the US Elections this evening, Ben Meagher takes a look at a figure of our own great political history, Winston Churchill, through the power of words. In 1963, after […]
Books: Classic of the Week – The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
‘Everybody is clever nowadays… The thing has become a public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left’ Callie White gives a little nod towards the opening of The Merry Wives of […]
Global Read: Kenya: In The House Of The Interpreter by Ng˜ug˜ý wa Thiong’o
Against the backdrop of 1950’s Kenya a young boy returns to his village after studying at the prestigious Alliance boarding school to find his family and home has vanished. This young boy, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, […]
New Review: Fifty Shades Darker
Hannah Dawson grits her teeth and picks up Fifty Shades Darker, the second novel in E L James’ erotic trilogy that continues to sweep the country in unprecedented hysteria. Can it really be worse than Fifty Shades […]