Wrap up Warm With These September Reads

Now that the autumn has got into full swing and everyone is dreaming of pumpkin puns and decorating their homes with cauldrons, what we are reading is also starting to get decidedly chiller. From atmospheric chillers to dramatic love stories to keep the frost of winter away, here is a summary of the reads that …

Summer Scorchers: August Reads for Your Bank Holiday

With the summer drawing to a close, this month’s reading was filled with scorchers for the warm weather in an attempt to indulge in the last of the seasonal reads on the ever-growing to-be-read pile. From tacky romances to languid travel fiction, here is a round-up of all the books you need to put on …

July’s Reads: A Pit-Stop Tour

Undeniably late in writing July’s reads up, most books never age, and so all the recommendations that I read last month are just as perfect now that we are sifting through the last sultry dregs of summer. July was an eclectic month for reading, with most possible genres accounted for as I made the most …

June Reading Wrap-Up: A Slice of Summer Lit

June was a spectacular reading month, and objectively the best of the year, a month in which reading came as a priority and played host to a grand total of four five-star reads, many of which are on the bookshelves of the nation. If you are looking for inspiration for your summer reading list, or …

May Reading Round-Up: Opening the Door to the Outside World

Reading is a respite, and this has no less been the case throughout the steamy month of May, where lockdown has made it difficult to enjoy the sunshine streaming through the window, apart from in the tall tales and beautiful coastlines of books. Although it can sometimes be a struggle to put your mind down …

April Reads: Escaping from Lockdown Through Fiction

As we all know, April has been a completely daunting and unprecedented month that both has allowed people to get more cherished reading time, and has deterred people from ever wanting to pick up a book again. As the blossoms are starting to droop from the window outside, here are the books that have sailed …

March-solation Reads: The Quarantine Edition

March has been an incredibly strange month for many readers on a global level. However, one of the positives to come from the minor tragedies of today’s world is that isolation and widespread quarantines have brought many people closer to their bookshelves, and to reading. If you want to explore some literary delights to fill …

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: An Unsettling Nightmare in a World of Sleep

Who hasn’t wanted to sleep away a couple of months of their lives? That is the decision that the critically depressed narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation makes, foregoing the mundanity of the everyday for the chance to reset her life. By focusing on this somewhat naïve hypothesis, Ottessa Moshfegh’s second full-length novel …

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo: Landmark Literary Journalism Without Rose-Tinted Glasses

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo encapsulates everything that non-fiction should be. Taddeo manages to create non-fiction that reads like fiction, instantly challenging the reader’s views on feminine sexuality and desire through the accounts of three women, each with their own individual- and yet, surprisingly universal- experiences of love. One of the marked pleasures of Three …

Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz: Overturning Stereotypes of Post-Partum Bliss

Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz is an intense and brutal novel that challenges our perceptions of motherhood and femininity. Following a new mother with post-partum depression and psychosis, Die, My Love reinvents the early days of parental responsibility into an erotic and violent yarn that shocks as much as it entertains. Although this is …