Although this book’s strongest theme is trees, it is also about people and it touches on many pertinent social issues of today – for example, climate change, protests, technology and social welfare. It will change your entire perspective on…
Read MoreThere’s something about Normal People that just draws you in and doesn’t let you go until you’ve devoured each and every page. Sally Rooney has a way with words like no other, and her writing style is unique to anything that I’ve read before …
Read More‘A Man Called Ove’ is about a grumpy old man – so grumpy it’s funny – who at the beginning of the novel keeps trying and failing to kill himself. A young family move in next door and won’t stop bothering him, but this leads to an unlikely and unexpected friendship between them and it actually ends up turning Ove’s life around…
Read MoreThis novel explores a plethora of themes – namely love, loyalty, race, justice as well as black masculinity and womanhood – through the portrayal of the marriage of a young couple. It feels like a slow burner but after a couple of chapters the all-defining moment in Roy and Celestial’s marriage occurs and you are hooked…
Read MoreImmediately you are sucked in by Evans’ use of language and the gorgeously vibrant and vivid portrayal of both London and marriage, but when you take a step back you realise that not much is really happening – it’s quite an…
Read MoreZadie Smith is one of those authors that everyone speaks about, everyone knows of her name and whilst it took me a while to warm up to her writing I think it’s actually the ideas that she communicates that…
Read MoreFor any of you that are completely oblivious and have literally been living in a cave for the past twenty years Harry Potter is a magical series that centres around, yes you guessed it, Harry Potter, who is a wizard…
Read MoreAdiche is one of the most prevalent writers of our generation. As a black female author from Nigeria, who spends lots of her time in America, her novels unsurprisingly heavily feature…
Read MoreTo some, this could be quite a controversial read as the story centres on three teens whose choices and lives eventually lead them to join ISIS….
Read MoreDescribed as the next ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’ this book is extremely thought-provoking in its premise. The world that Dalcher creates is very similar to the world that Atwood presents in her dystopian novel…
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