THE BOOK CLUB

“An unprecedented flood. London. Uninhabitable.” Megan Hunter’s novel offers us a water-logged apocalyptic vision that is simultaneously...

Our contributors got in touch with their favourite book, TV, film, music and podcast outputs from 2018. We hope it encourages you to...

Celebrating the Ordinary and the Forgotten French title: Visages, Villages (2017) Director: Agnes Varda Intergenerational friendships are...

Food writer Sheri Castle wrote; “you can Google a recipe, you cannot Google a good food story”. Here lies the important distinction...

From Elizabeth Day’s celebration of what hasn’t gone to plan in life in How to Fail, to the revealing tale of life inside the terror...

Hossein Amini is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and film director. Best known for his adaptations, Amini has been nominated for multiple...

Persian Letters: Montesquieu for the Modern Day? “We have a problem in this country; it’s called Muslims”, said one person to Donald...

Olumide Popoola is a London-based Nigerian German writer and speaker. Her full-length novel When we Speak of Nothing was published in the...

Hafsah Aneela Bashir is a poet and spoken word artist. Hafsah’s debut collection The Celox And The Clot unapologetically examines the...

Afshan D’souza-Lodhi was born in Dubai and bred in Manchester. She is of Indian/Pakistani descent and writes plays, prose, poetry and...

You Think It, I’ll Say It is the first collection of short stories by American novelist Curtis Sittenfeld. The title perfectly describes...

Having previously read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s feminist essays (Dear Ijeawele and We Should All Be Feminists), I was excited to read...

First published in Japan in 2014, Men Without Women was translated into English in 2017. Haruki Murakami delivers a supremely enjoyable...

Yaa Gyasi's literary debut, Homegoing, begins in Africa’s Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) in the 1750s. Our opening character, Effia...

Classics has remained at the forefront of my reading and academic work since my teenage years, all the way through to university. As a...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, Americanah, has been endlessly praised since its publication in 2013. The book won the 2013...

Africa, captivity, slavery, freedom and tragedy; Hurston’s unpublished biography is released almost ninety years after it was written to...

After a fantastic month of unpredictable football, the 2018 Russian World Cup sadly drew to a close on Sunday. So, as the cinematic...

Our July Book of the Month is Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson. The book is a semi-autobiographical story about a...

‘This book is so inspiring…I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws. What specifically do I take from her? Her wig’...