A Spotlight On: The Costa Book Awards

After much anticipation, today’s the day of the announcement of the Costa Prize. Last year Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End took the...

Five From the Shelf: Christmas Reads for Little People

With just a week to go before Christmas, the spirit of the season is well and truly here. Streets are sparkling with fairy lights,...

Published by Fitzcaraldo Editions, Camilla Grudova's The Doll's Alphabet introduces us to a bleak, almost dystopian world, in which she...

As a lifelong reader, there are some names in publishing that I know I can trust to release insightful, fascinating or simply...

I recently posted a collection of my favourite spooky reads, full of creaking staircases, echoing voices and things that go bump in the...

First Love tells the story of Neve, and her older husband Edwyn. Theirs is a marriage rooted in threats and humiliation. Page after page...

As the nights arrive earlier and we wake in the morning to find it is still dark outside, for many readers there is a collective tendency...

"It was as if the story came from the room itself: a conversation overheard, a piece of music still circling the air" Do Not Say We Have...

Over the last few years I have had a growing interest in translated fiction. For me literature is not only an escapist hobby, but one...

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