Evie Meg, or This Trippie Hippie, has risen to Tik Tok stardom during the pandemic, now having gathered a following of 13.2 million on TikTok, and 584K on Youtube. She is known for posting videos […]
Treat Your Shelf: Girl, Woman, Other – Bernadine Evaristo
Sara Anestesja reviews Bernadine Evaristo’s Booker Prize winning book, ‘Girl, Woman, Other’
Treat Your Shelf: Before the Coffee gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Emma Rivers reviews the new book from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, ‘Before the coffee gets cold’.
Book Review: The Burning Land
Louisa Polack reviews George Alagiah’s latest book ‘The Burning Land’, a thrilling novel set in apartheid-era South Africa
Grace Blakeley’s Newest Novel teaches us there is life beyond Corbyn.
Whilst the national conversation has been dominated by talk of Corbyn and the rebirth of the parliamentary left, an intellectual revolution has been taking place behind the scenes. Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen: How to […]
Review: The Bear and the Nightingale
The story starts off with a tale of a beautiful girl who bravely faces the winter demon Morozko and is rewarded riches beyond imagination. This old folktale slowly unravels in the novel to be the […]
Review: Here’s Looking at You Kid
Helen Burke is a seasoned poet and has amassed an impressive array of competition successes over the years. Valley Press have released an anthology of her most requested poems… Here’s Looking at You Kid is […]
Review: Confidence
The debut of writing team Rowland Manthorpe and Kirsten Smith, Confidence tracks two occasionally coinciding protagonists as they navigate the trials and tribulations of their final year at university. Ellie has hit a brick wall […]
Review: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
In his debut novel, Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel brings a fresh and global perspective to the well-worn science fiction trope of giant alien robots. When Rose Franklin is eleven, she falls into a hole while […]
New cafe set to open in Edward Boyle
The Edward Boyle Library is set to open its first café ready for second semester. Great Food at Leeds have announced that the coffee shop ‘The Book Club’ will be located on level nine, and […]
Review: Room
As Room debuts in cinemas, In The Middle takes the book back off the shelf. Inspired by the real Joseph Fritzl case, Emma Donoghue’s Room is a powerful and poignant story about the strong maternal […]
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
SPOILER WARNING I didn’t realise how much respect I had for Go Set A Watchman until I finished the last sentence and paused, thinking about what I had just read. A plethora of emotions passed […]