Written by Ruo Wei Lim ‘What are you planning to do with your English degree?’ Some version of this interrogative is the first and often only response I get from […]
Category: Literature
The Length And Depth of War and Peace
Written by Ella Maughan A book that addresses conflict, life, love and death, War and Peace is an epic saga of modern history that does exactly what it says on […]
In Review-Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
Written by Rachel Barnes In this compelling book Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World, Elinor Cleghorn unravels gendered discrepancies within Western medicine that have […]
In Review: Two-Way Mirror by Fiona Sampson
Written by Harry Adams Throughout her lifetime, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of Britain’s most popular poets. Yet today, most would struggle to recite more than a few lines of […]
In Review: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Written by Jennie Dover Owing to unsupervised access to the internet and a morbid curiosity, I watched the 2005 documentary Earthlings at a formative age. It did not succeed in […]
The Lonely City: Adventures In The Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
Written by Hesandi Jayasekara This summer, I challenged myself to read something that I wouldn’t have read usually, and that was how I wound up stumbling through a multitude of […]
In Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Written by Isobel Neill Perhaps an embodiment of the phrase ‘the grass is not always greener on the other side’, The Midnight Library is another beautiful, thought-provoking novel from the […]
‘All great and precious things are lonely.‘ In review: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Written by Hesandi Jayasekara Has a book ever exploded your heart into pieces and sewn it back together again, bit by bit through good prose alone? East of Eden, through […]
Book Quotes from Famous Authors A-Z
Written by Sophie Eblett Authors as wordsmiths often produce marvellous quotes, both contained within their literature and expressed as personal thought or philosophy. Many famous literary opinions survive on record […]
In Review: Dostoevsky in Love
In his introduction to Dostoevsky in Love, Alex Christofi describes how the Russian novelist planned to write an autobiography after he had completed The Brothers Karamazov. Frustratingly, before the author […]