Reading group: Help choose a Booker prize winner to read in July
June 26, 2018

This July is a bumper Man Booker month. As well as the announcement of the [...]

Eleanor Catton: ‘The Bostonians sends me to sleep every time I pick it up’
June 22, 2018

The book I am currently readingTransit by Rachel Cusk (I’m late to the party). The [...]

To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

I don’t know about you but I have read this book so often and still [...]

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Jun
Top 10 books about the afterlife
June 20, 2018

Few lives are lived without a passing thought for what happens after death, but it’s [...]

Top 10 lost women’s classics
June 13, 2018

What is a “lost” women’s classic? How unappreciated does something have to be before you [...]

Carol Ann Duffy: ‘I wish I’d written Harry Potter, obvs’
June 8, 2018

The book I am currently readingThe Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson. Reading it, [...]

Top 10 working-class heroes in books
June 6, 2018

“A working-class hero is something to be,” sang John Lennon. The heroes of history and [...]

May 2018 Wrap Up

Welcome to this month’s wrap up! Here’s everything we’ve managed to achieve this month all [...]

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May
Top 10 books to help you survive the digital age
May 30, 2018

I’m an Irish writer whose new novel is set in the digital, hi-tech future. Which [...]

Reading group: Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier is June’s book
May 29, 2018

This June marks 100 years since Rebecca West’s first novel The Return of the Soldier [...]

King Lear review – Anthony Hopkins is shouty, vulnerable and absolutely mesmerising
May 28, 2018

London at night, the capital’s priapic new edifices – the Shard, Gherkin etc – sparkle [...]

Colm Tóibín: ‘I couldn’t read until I was nine – my first book was an Agatha Christie’
May 25, 2018

The book I am currently readingLearning What Love Means by Mathieu Lindon, a coming-of-age book [...]