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The Power Of Dangerous Women – Poetry Collection by Jesi Bender
I'm always enthusiastic about any writing that celebrates women. In Jesi Bender's poetry collection Dangerous Women, she categorises her subjects by the perceived 'danger' they pose to society, through their freedom, their status or their visibility. From biblical...
Tense Thriller Exploring Mental Health: The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood by Susan Elliot-Wright
There's something special about finding a writer who is passionate about the same things you are and brings them into their books. Susan Elliot-Wright's novel The Flight Of Cornelia Blackwood is a tense and gripping thriller. But at its heart, it's an exploration of...
Identity and Belonging: Still Lives by Reshma Ruia
Sometimes stories just capture the wonderful essence of what it means to be human. Of where we find our place in the world, of how we relate to the journeys we've been on, and how all of that gets muddled and confused along the way. Still Lives by Reshma Ruia is...
Powerful Tales of Family: Baby is a Thing Best Whispered by Keely O’Shaughnessy
The great thing about hosting this site is all the amazing books that appear on my radar. Keely O'Shaughnessy's powerful flash fiction collection Baby is a Thing Best Whispered contains rare, startling stories that really jolt you. Featuring many characters on that...
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Having read several dystopian novels lately (see my thoughts here) I decided to try a YA version, to see how they...
Frank Herbert offers us an insight into the darker side of human nature in The White Plague, an apocalyptic tale of...
Recently, I’ve been delving into the world of gender-based utopian fiction (that usually winds up being dystopian)....
A new book by Margaret Atwood! Very exciting. I went along to her talk at the Southbank Centre (proper fan moment) and...
She lets the sun touch her through the window. Dips her head, past the dark line drawn on the table, sits her face...
We’re all busy people. But, if you’re like me, then any space of time can be used as an excuse to read a few pages....
I know I’m massively behind the times in reading this, but as I’m currently working on a similar narrative, several...
This month I started teaching AS Media Studies. What a treat. I’d forgotten the delights of delving into the signs and...