Maps of The Abandoned City by Helen Ivory is a pamphlet of unforgettable poetry. For me, it was often reminiscent of T. S. Eliot’s The Wa...

Lania Knight’s contribution to the dystopian genre, Remnant , is a worthy one. It depicts an all-too familiar world recovering from escha...

Brett Anderson, lead singer of the indie group, Suede, describes an eccentric childhood in an ‘oddball’ family's marginal existence i...

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a story created from forty-four beautifully written vignettes. Opening this book is like...

I have seen High Spirits advertised on social media for months and had always thought its sub title was A Round of Drinking Songs .  A bi...

The memorable opening chapter of The Magic Toyshop introduces Melanie. a fifteen-year-old girl, acutely aware of her developing body and ...

Kim Slater, author of the award-winning Smart , never fails to tackle difficult issues in her novels. Her third Young Adult novel, 928 Mi...

At the end of 2018, we asked readers to nominate a favourite read of the year, and write a micro-review of their chosen book. The book could...

You don’t necessarily need to be a champion of poetry in order to appreciate this new collection by Mike Barlow. To a certain extent ther...