Are you ready to order?No there is nothing to orderNo I’m unable to orderNo I’m a long way from orderAnd while there is everything,And nothing, to order,Order remains a tall orderAnd disorder feeds on the belly of orderAnd order requires the blood of disorderAnd ‘freedom’ and ordure and other disorduresNeed the odour of order to […]Read More
I have always read fiction novels and even when I branched out into non-fiction, memoirs were never my go-to genre. I suppose since I did not engage with the celebrity in question, often footballers or singers, I could not see the merit in reading about their path to fame or their childhood. That is until […]Read More
Today, 28 July, the longlist for The Booker Prize 2020 has been announced. This year's longlist is comprised of thirteen "excitingly diverse" novels.Read More
If you can see the sepia in the sunShades of grey in fading streetsThe radiating bloodshot in a child’s eyeThe dark stains on her linen sheets If you can see oil separate on waterThe turquoise of leaves on treesThe reddened flush of your lover’s cheeksThe violet peace of calmed seas If you can see the […]Read More
Title: The Vanishing Half Author: Brit Bennett What I Think So Far: I’m always a little cautious when it comes to picking up a book that everyone is raving about, or that has an enormous amount of hype surrounding it – I always think to myself, will its popularity influence my thoughts? What if I […]Read More
Standing as one of the most popular books of last year, and having won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction, it goes without saying that you pick up An American Marriage with high hopesRead More
This week’s poem is Ariel by Sylvia Plath. It is poem of transcendence, strength, life and death. I began to read Plath during my A-Level studies and feel completely in love with her poetry – particularly Ariel.Read More
'Dear NHS: 100 stories to Say Thank You' is a collection of essays by writers and celebrities, reminding us of how lucky we are to have the NHS. Read More
Currently diving back into Yaa Gyasi's fantastic novel, Homegoing.Read More
The winners of the Orwell Prize have just been announced. This is an extremely reputable award which celebrates political writing as an art form. As Orwell once wrote, “I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is […]Read More
Kate Tempest has a thing for the senses. Her pleasant delivery of spoken poetry are like small pieces of informational strums tugging at our hearts. She draws experience from touches, of tangible things to see, melted words and realisations readers are not often confronted with. Such is the magic of Tempest’s poetry; when I first […]Read More
The 2020 Desmond Elliot Prize winner is revealed, and Stormzy's publishing imprint explained. Read More
A five star review of T. J. Klune's heartwarming and magical 2020 novel The House in the Cerulean Sea.Read More
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”– James Baldwin Upon first reading James Baldwin, I was immediately struck by the vibrancy of his writing, his poignant portrayal of racial injustice and his ability to create deeply complex and authentic characters. As a revolutionary writer and […]Read More
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the […]Read More
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