Commenting on anything Lena Dunham does is a tricky proposition – she’s the critical community’s princess as well as its piñata; everything she says is analysed for its feminist credentials and she is dissected on internet chartrooms with a fervour that is usually only reserved for the devil herself, Gwyneth […]

The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss is a gentle and slow-moving novella with a certain lack of action. In this regard, it could easily be placed on a ‘nothing-happens’ shelf beside  Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Proust’s Swan’s Way: In Search of Lost Time. A second similarity […]

Coming straight from the imagination of the New York Times Bestseller Eleanor and Park, Fangirl is a new age coming of age story that perfectly encapsulates first love, moving on and most importantly, fanfiction. Cath and Wren are identical twins venturing into the world of university, introducing boys, drinking and […]

Based on true events in the 60s, a history teacher decides to teach his class the realities of living under the Nazi Regime, and give them a taste of why so many people were drawn into its ideology. So he creates a club called ‘The Wave’, complete with mottos, a […]

Synopsis: Paige’s mother left without warning or explanation when she was five. Although Paige enjoyed a close relationship with her father, his strong religious beliefs lead her to think her only choice after having an abortion at eighteen is to run away. Whilst working as a waitress, she meets Nick, […]

Book Review: The House at Riverton, Kate Morton This compelling gothic mystery focusing on the secrets and intrigues of an upper class family living in a large English country house at the beginning of the 20th Century is told from the perspective of a 98-year-old woman, Grace, who previously worked […]

Lauren Weisberger’s ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ was the novel ‘a million girls would die for’, including myself. It had everything, the inner workings and scandals of a glossy magazine, the dream New York setting and of course, the infamous Miranda Priestly (who it was rumoured was based on Vogue’s Anna […]

Great North Road is the latest offering from highly acclaimed British sci-fi author Peter F. Hamilton, released in the UK on the 27th of September. Set in the year 2142, this standalone novel explores a not-too-distant future, in which the Earth is connected to planets across the galaxy through a […]