In 1984 Alexy Pajitnov released a highly addictive game called Tetris, and the uniquely tangled journey the game went from creation to commercialism provides a surprisingly fascinating read. Box Brown’s […]
Category: Literature
Q&A With Rose Anne Evans
Rose Anne Evans is a first-year French, German and Linguistics BA student here at the University of York and she’s written a book, Fight For Freedom, to raise awareness about […]
Book review: The Power by Naomi Alderman
Sometimes, you don’t immediately click with a book. It took me a while to read the first 100 pages of The Power; I dipped in and out, every couple of days. […]
Interview: Chloe Grant-Jones, Author
Chloe Grant-Jones is a third-year History and English Literature student from Belfast. Her first novel ‘Forgotten in Memory’ was published in February 2017 by The Book Guild Publishing. In the […]
Reid’s Reads: Forgotten in Memory by Chloe Grant-Jones
Forgotten in Memory is written by second-year University of York history student, Chloe Grant-Jones. Writing a book in your spare time is an impressive feat for any student, but Grant-Jones […]
Reid’s Reads: ‘Speaking Out’ by Ed Balls
I’m not a diary fan, and autobiographies don’t float my bookish boat, but Speaking Out is a decent blend of thoughtful musings, blunt politics and lightly-recalled life. Ed Balls presents […]
Book Recommendations
Image credits: https://pixabay.com/en/book-read-old-literature-pages-1659717/ 11:00. Monday, 3rd of March. Location: Waterstones, York The subject enters the bookstore smiling. 12:30. The subject is still in the bookstore. 15:00. The subject is finally leaving the store […]
Reid’s Reads: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant is chiefly the tale of an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, who depart from their home in order to find their son in sub-Roman Britain (c. 410-500). As […]
The Poets’ Nook: An Interview with Anna Woodford
So you’ve seen her name on the buses in York and read her words on your ride to class. But who is she and what’s she about? At The Yorker, […]
Reid’s Reads: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Brighton Rock is not a novel to be lightly read. The weighty story drives on with an inevitable crunch of misfortune and emotion towards magnified tragedy. Graham Greene’s woeful tale […]