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...

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

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Africa, captivity, slavery, freedom and tragedy; Hurston’s unpublished biography is released almost ninety years after it was written to...

‘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’...

Emma Glass’s debut novel is simultaneously unsettling and arresting. The book is extraordinarily visceral, and the absurd word-play takes...

In essence, Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing encapsulates the influence that our favourite books can wield over our lives;...

For our first Book of the Month, we wanted to choose a book and author that encompasses The Book Club ethos of sparking conversation and...

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, an annual initiative which seeks to raise awareness of mental health through initiating...

“You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions...

‘The great majority of people in the English speaking countries have no glimmering of knowledge of the supreme human art, the Art of...

“One sheds one’s sicknesses in books”, wrote D.H. Lawrence, in an oft-quoted letter of 1913. The idea of literature as a source of...

I read this book before we had the idea for this website, when I was feeling a little dull and listless, and needed a pick-me-up. I sat...