Last week, the BBC released a short trailer for His Dark Materials – a new drama series based on the best-selling and well-loved children’s/young adult trilogy by Phillip Pullman, sending fans of the books into […]
Power Within Pages: Women in Literature
Combining World Book Day and International Women’s Day, Megan talks women in literature. With World Book Day and International Women’s Day being celebrated on the 7th and 8th of March this year, what better time is […]
Shelf Awareness: Remembering How Reading Can Be Life Changing
With World Book Day coming up on March 7th, a day which I remember celebrating in primary school by dressing up as weird and wacky literary characters for a day (mine included an Oompa Loompa […]
Book Review: Robert Welbourn’s Ideal Angels
Ideal Angels is a fast-paced romance for the digital-crazed age. Hard-hitting, honest and simply un-put-downable, this debut novel from Robert Welbourn will stick in your mind long after turning the final page… The story follows a young […]
Iceland’s Banned Christmas Advert: Too political? Not according to us!
Despite being one of the most highly-anticipated adverts of the year, supermarket giant Iceland’s 2018 Christmas advert will not be gracing our television sets this year. Made in collaboration with Greenpeace and voiced by Emma […]
Celebrating Halloween Without Alcohol
Halloween. A night renowned amongst students for being a blurry, crazy and alcohol-fuelled celebration – often resulting in a horror of a hangover! Although this typical Halloween night can be fun, it becomes easy to […]
Those Who Can Do, Teach
Following National Teachers Day, Megan talks teaching and why the profession should be celebrated. October 5th marked National Teachers Day, a day in which we celebrate the teaching profession and acknowledge the immensely positive impact […]
Television Academy and Race: Resolution, or mere recognition?
It goes without saying that the Television Academy and acting industry is knuckling down on its internal social problems, and is making its efforts well-known. We only have to look at the Time’s Up campaign […]