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A review of 'Anne of the Island' by L.M Montgomery (1915)
Just because you can’t go back doesn’t mean there won’t be joys, potentially even greater than before...
Grace Kielstra
Nov 16, 20248 min read


A review of 'White Nights' by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1848)
This portrayal of unrequited love isn’t just about rejection; it’s about the kind of longing that never quite goes away.
Tasnia Shahrin
Nov 11, 20243 min read


A review of 'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett (1952)
Beckett takes the concept of waiting, something we all hate, and turns it into a grand commentary on life itself.
Tasnia Shahrin
Sep 24, 20243 min read


A review of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë (1847)
There's no clear moral to this tale at all, rather it's more like an intricate, beautifully written disaster that you can't look away from.
Tasnia Shahrin
Jun 17, 20244 min read


A review of 'English Pastoral, An Inheritance' by James Rebanks (2020)
I love talking about what I’m reading, just the people around me aren't so interested. This time, it wasn’t me who started conversations.
Rosie McCann
Jun 8, 20244 min read


A review of 'Ubik' by Philip K. Dick (1969)
Reading a Philip K. Dick (PKD) novel can sometimes feel like wandering through the cannabis-laced imagination of a fanciful metaphysician.
Alfie Goodwin
Jun 7, 20245 min read


A review of 'The Orange' by Wendy Cope (1992)
Cope, in some unfathomable way, manages to capture the very moment that light comes flooding back into a person’s life.
Hannah Williamson
Mar 1, 20244 min read


A review of 'Written on the Body' by Jeanette Winterson (1992)
Winterson seems to encourage us to love one another, but equally warns us against a desire that seeps into all aspects of our life.
Ellie Valentine
Jan 17, 20243 min read


A review of 'While We Were Dreaming' by Clemens Meyer (2023)
They struggle for their own freedoms, growing up in a society where not only the buildings are crumbling apart but the community too.
Rosie McCann
Jan 17, 20243 min read


A review of 'Notes of a Native Son' by James Baldwin (1955)
Baldwin has left us with a collection of essays that, to me, reads like an accidental love letter to his father and ancestors.
Aanya Mitra
Jan 7, 20242 min read


A review of 'Conversations in Bloomsbury' by Mulk Raj Anand (1981)
It compels us, as readers, to reevaluate, perhaps, the sometimes blissful ignorance of our literary heroes.
Aanya Mitra
Jan 6, 20243 min read


A review of 'Woods etc.' by Alice Oswald (2005)
Oswald seeks to illuminate the wonder and beauty of nature (though not without some angst) as well as the human place within it.
Alfred Goodwin
Jan 5, 20243 min read


A review of 'Her Body & Other Parties', by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)
Machado’s characters don’t behave like regular people. Perhaps that’s what makes this collection so irresistible.
Hugo Donnelly
Jan 5, 20243 min read


A review of 'The Godfather', by Mario Puzo (1969)
Loyalty is no longer a virtue earned, but at the mercy of a coin toss- but not to worry! There are enough heads to go around.
Aanya Mitra
Oct 9, 20234 min read
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