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‘I Believe in a Thing Called Love’ by English glam-rock four-piece The Darkness was released in September 2003 and reached Number 2 in UK Singles Chart. Despite the song being almost 12 years old, it is an imm […]

In Hearts Wake are a metalcore band hailing from Australia. A noticeable difference to their contemporaries is that instead of tracks about relationships, on their debut album Discoveries they created a concept […]

The cover of this book caught my eye immediately in the book shop and pretty much said it all. An orange sunburst umbrella making its way though the streets of New York. The colourful paperback was propped proudly […]

The run-up to the recent general election dominated social media and the press for several weeks. It engaged thousands of voters and non-voters with the arguments and policies of the six or seven main parties, and […]

Literature is a unique experience, and it is this uniqueness that makes prose such an exciting art form. Books are not merely bland and boring pieces of battered paper, but living and breathing objects, pulsating […]

Walking through your local town, it’s inevitable you’ll be caught between the faint sound of an old guitar being strummed and an artist taking to the street as if it’s their centre stage. It takes a lot of guts, […]

Title: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Author: Sylvia Plath, Edited by Karen V.Kukil

What I think so far: Upon first picking up The Bell Jar, I felt a connection to Plath’s raw teenage sentiments th […]

In the days following the General Election, one strand of discontent has been shown to dominate others. The unfairness of the United Kingdom electoral system became evident over the election night, with the number […]

From an early age I have always been encouraged to read; my Mum and I both share a passion for books and have helped each other through many book hangovers. For me, a book is a friend. It can help you through […]

Members of the #Milifandom all around the country were crying into their cornflakes come Friday morning. They had no words, just James Blunt’s ‘Goodbye My Lover’ on a constant loop. Thousands were left bewil […]

With the highly anticipated Spooks: The Greater Good about to hit cinemas, it follows in the footsteps of many films before it. Starting out on television and now making the jump to the silver screen, it’s one of […]

Suite Française portrays a selfish side of humanity rarely explored within wartime novels. The honesty of this book serves a refreshing view of civilians during World War II, particularly those within the French […]

Greetings dear reader, if you stumbled into the kitchen this morning not from bed, but from the television, with the voice of David Dimbleby ringing in your ears like political tinnitus. Greetings, if you watched […]

Elizabeth is Missing is the debut novel of British writer Emma Healey.

The main character and narrator of the book is an 82-year-old lady called Maud, who is described in the synopsis as being ‘forgetful’. Bef […]

Nick Clegg is an excellent politician. Not only that, but he’s also a pretty decent human being. Five years ago he made the honourable decision to form a coalition government with the Conservative party, and in s […]

Title: Paradise Lost, Book IX.

Author: John Milton.

What I think so far: This isn’t technically a book, but is instead a long poem from the 1600s; it needs to be considered as such. Reading it as an a […]

If the Scottish independence referendum of last year did anything (other than destroy Labour’s voter base in Scotland), it issued a much-needed reminder to the political class that the United Kingdom is made up of […]

I will admit that I only ever read this book for my English Literature coursework. Nevertheless, it doesn’t make a boring read; quite the opposite, really. E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View follows Lucy Hon […]

Dear Ed Miliband, Shabana Mahmood, Gloria de Piero, Louise Magee, Lucy Powell, Patrick Henegan, Ian McNichol, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Ben Nolan and all of the other members of the Labour campaign team who have […]