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Liquor Store Dreams – BFI London Film Festival Review

To be a liquor store owner in America is an unglamorous, exhausting, dangerous prospect. Most…

The Worst Ones – BFI London Film Festival Review

A film crew, led by debut director Gabriel (Johan Heldeburgh), have come to a working-class…

Book Review: She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa

Inspired by his 1999 mini anime of the same name, Makoto Shinkai’s She and Her…

Small, Slow but Steady – BFI London Film Festival Review

Boxing is a dangerous sport at the best of times, but for deaf fighters, those…

6 films to watch at BFI London Film Festival 2022

The news is bleak, and so’s the weather, but at least the London Film Festival…

Book Review: The First To Die At The End by Adam Silvera

Returning to the world first introduced in his 2017 YA novel They Both Die At…

Sarah Lee on giving voice to unspoken histories

It’s said that history is written by the victors. But what happens when the proverbial…

Book Review: Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender

Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution is a unique YA novel. In part because there…

Book Review: Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco

When readers fell in love with the first book in Kerri Maniscalco’s darkly romantic and…

Book Review: Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young

When it comes to the perfect autumnal read, atmosphere is everything. This is the season…

Finbar Hawkins on folklore, myth and magic

It’s all down to three Reader’s Digest books that my parents ordered when I was…

Book Review: From Lukov With Love by Mariana Zapata

The words ‘TikTok Sensation’ feel like they accompany nearly every new book on the market…