5 books to binge-read while you’re alone on valentine’s day: an anti-valentine’s reading list
By Megha Alam Conversations with friends – Sally Rooney If you’re feeling bitter about any kind of relationship (platonic and…
Love In Colour : Bolu Babalola reminds us to believe and trust in the power of love ★★★★★
A yorubaddie, a romconnoisseur, and president of the Nick Miller fan club: these are all titles that Bolu Babalola has…
Queenie – a flawless illustration of black womanhood ★★★★
Queenie is a young journalist in London: trying to find cheap, non-mouldy accommodation, struggling to get an internship or success…
Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was A Girl – Difficult to read – difficult to put down ★★★★★
In Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, Jeannie Vanasco achieves the extraordinary: She explores rape culture…
January 2020 – Starting the year with a bang!
The best of January films, tv shows, theatre productions, albums, and books to suit all tastes FILM To start the…
Worst book of the decade: List of the Lost by Morrissey, 2015
It’s not as if Morrissey needed additional opportunities to provoke unanimous public disgust in the 2010s. His outspoken support for…
Girl, Woman, Other – A Love Letter to Black Womanhood ★★★★
Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to co-win the Booker Prize, alongside Margaret Atwood. Her book, Girl, Woman, Other,…
Rod Liddle – The Great Betrayal
The controversial journalist returns with a polemic that explains why Brexit hasn’t happened, and why it is unlikely to happen.…
Book review : Charlie Raymond’s “Hired, Fired, Fled”
By Taryana Odayar, Executive Editor. Fourteen jobs in fifteen years. That’s how long it took Charlie Raymond to come as…