‘To write – was not that the joy and the privilege of one who had an urgent message for the world?’ Well this is an inspiring tale for us young journos. New Grub Street […]
Books: New Review: This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
This Is How You Lose Her is Junot Díaz’s new collection of inventive stories, all but one narrated by Yunior, a young Dominican serial cheater, and same voice of Diaz’s previous works, Drown and […]
Books: Top Five Books About Journalism
Callie White honours interviewee Simon Hattenstone with this week’s selection of journalism classics. 1. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh Perhaps the most famous of all fictional journalists, William Boot is here employed by the national […]
Books: New Review: Double Cross by Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre’s latest foray into the little-known world of espionage and counter espionage during World War Two is, as to be expected from the highly esteemed writer, an utter triumph. Like Macintyre’s past successes […]
Books: Top Five Funny Fictions
Saluting this week’s big interviewee Phillip Breen, and the arrival of The Merry Wives Of Windsor to the RSC in Stratford, Catherine Brett directs amusement towards the funniest books out there. 1. Adolf Hitler: My […]
Anger over High Demand mischief
1.11.12 The Edward Boyle library is coming under fire as students struggle to get hold of the books they need. High demand reference books on Level 13 of the library continue to be deliberately […]
Books: New Review: A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
There are a few authors who inspire complete confidence; unless something has gone horribly wrong, their newest offering will be brilliant. Sebastian Faulks is – one of those authors, but even he admits A […]
Books: Halloween Classic of the Week: Trilby by George Du Maurier
Now this is a novel soaked with cultural history. Trilby inspired Leroux’s The Phantom of The Opera, coined the term Svengali, now forever to denote a hypnotic and controlling young gentleman, and turned the […]
New Review: Peaches for Monsieur le Curé by Joanne Harris
From the best-selling author of Chocolat, Peaches for Monsieur le Curé returns to the life of master chocolatier Vianna Rocher, who moved eight years previously to the sleepy French village of Lansquenet and tempted life […]
New Review: You and I by Emily Gillmor Murphy
However confidently you stride around campus it is difficult to shake off the distinct awkwardness that surrounds all first years, says Sarah Weir, and You and I is the most resonant new novel […]
New Review: The Radleys by Matt Haig
If you’re still waiting for Edward Cullen to grow up, you need to read The Radleys says Catherine Brett. Matt Haig, a former University of Leeds student, somehow manages to twist the vampire legend […]
Book of the Film: On The Road
Kerouac’s classic beat novel, based autobiographically on his own travels across America is completely riotous and completely spellbinding says Jessica Lane. On the Road follows the lives of a group of friends as they […]