I still remember walking out of the theatre after watching Raazi in 2018 feeling … unsettled.  My chest felt tight, my mind restless. I cou...

This is everyday life, simply depicted, suicide taken in a stride, elongated spaces between the words giving breath where there is none. The...

Anne Caldwell’s The Language of Now is a collection of prose poems that moves quietly but insistently through memory, landscape and the fr...

Adam Glynn’s 2001 debut is probably best described as the fabled "positive drug story," albeit a cautionary tale about drug use. S...

"He was a magician but not a very good one": this is a  book seemingly at first about an affair. The couple have just eloped, but ...

Simon Maddrell is such an accomplished poet with an assured voice, it’s hard to believe this is his debut collection. He writes about growin...

It’s been months since I cried over a book, and short stories rarely do that to me. But Kit de Waal’s Supporting Cast made me tear up a bit...

"What you saw was a woman, bent out of shape. Pushed beyond her breaking point. Turns out we’ve all got them."  Rachel Canwell’s d...

"If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse":  The Cruel Prince by Holly Black drags the readers into the twiste...