Book Reviews

Comic Review: Teen Titans – Raven

Teen Titans: Raven is a new young adult comic book, written by Kami Garcia and illustrated by Gabriel Picolo. It has an enjoyable and entertaining story, focusi... Read More...

8 of the best books to read this August

From thrillers and crime to family dramas and romantic feel-good fiction, here's our pick of the best books to read this month. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jew... Read More...

Book Review: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Becky Chambers’ To Be Taught, If Fortunate only has 160 pages, yet this high-concept sci-fi novella has more depth, meaning and intelligence than many of the fu... Read More...

Book Review: The Girl At The Window by Rowan Coleman

Part family drama, part supernatural mystery and part classic romance, Rowan Coleman’s The Girl At The Window is a book that wears its Brontë inspirations proud... Read More...

Book Review: Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky

Looking at the cover of Very Nice, you could easily be fooled into thinking it’s just another glamorous summer book full of sun, swimming pools and romance. Whi... Read More...

Book Review: At the Pond – Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond

It’s over 30°C and the air is thick with sticky, humid heat. It’s the kind of broiling heatwave that melts you to a puddle on the ground the moment you step out... Read More...

Book Review: Arctic Zoo by Robert Muchamore

Arctic Zoo is a YA thriller about young people coming into their own power. Centred on fifteen and sixteen year old Georgia and Julius, we explore their different worlds and how they end up crossing paths on a mental health ward.... Read More...

Book Review: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

The most tired piece of advice given to first time novelists is ‘write what you know’. It discounts both the power of imagination and the power of good research... Read More...

Book Review: The July Girls by Phoebe Locke

It’s 2005 and Addie is about to turn ten. With an absent mother and volatile father, all she can look forward to is a modest celebration with her older sister J... Read More...

Book Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Think Cinderella, but in Mexico, in the 1920’s. And instead of a handsome prince, there’s a handsome death god. Casiopea is the eighteen-year-old granddaught... Read More...

Book Review: Looker by Laura Sims

Laura Sims’ dark domestic debut is a book about what happens when fascination veers dangerously into obsession. It centres on The Professor, a woman who lives a... Read More...

Book Review: Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

There’s a lot going on in Kate Atkinson’s latest literary crime novel, Big Sky. Women with dark pasts. Marriages built on secrets. Old friends reuniting. Girls ... Read More...

Film

Watergate DVD Review

Night Hunter Review

Honeyland Review

TV

The 100 season 6, episode 1 review: ‘Sanctum’

Sanditon episode 1 review: A promising start to what could be a groundbreaking new series

From Castle Rock to Big Little Lies – 5 of the best book to TV adaptations to watch now

Music

Win Runrig’s The Last Dance on DVD

The Lumineers – III Review

Kris Barras Band – Light It Up Review

Books

Liz Hyder on the inspiration behind her debut novel Bearmouth

Win Dane Shitagi’s beautiful photography book Ballerina Project

Book Review: Unleashed by Amy McCulloch