Having previously published his award-winning poetry separately, Alex Dimitrov has collected recent and old work in his 2013 book, Begging...
Christopher Pottecary Feb 8, 2014
In William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, there are two matriarchal presences: Dilsey, the black mammy, and Caroline Compson,...
Rachelann Copland Feb 8, 2014
The three most recent films I've seen at the cinemas are How I Live Now, The Hunger Games and The...
Siobhan Calafiore Feb 6, 2014
The 1960s is generally known as a time of upheaval. Everything was changing—politics, higher education, society roles, culture, etc. So...
PerkAlert Feb 2, 2014
Over the Japanese sea, a man dangles from an enormous helium balloon. The castle that he has just escaped from...
Joe Holland Jan 30, 2014
Most readers would recognise Albert Camus from his Nobel Prize winning L'Etranger (English tite: The Stranger or The Outsider) and...
Jacqueline Wallace Jan 23, 2014
With the critical buzz surrounding 12 Years a Slave, the topic of American slavery in the 19th century is again...
Brendan Johnson Dec 22, 2013
Whenever you walk into a bookstore, chance is high that you will always encounter at least several copies of Haruki...
Justin Dec 21, 2013
We all love books. Despite the advent of the eBook, there's something about the paper format that appeals to us;...
Ewan Wilson Dec 11, 2013
Let us begin with an anecdote: young Timothy - who has been gifted a £10 Waterstone's voucher (again!) by aunt...
Riviera Handley Nov 6, 2013
As a kid, I was a massive fan of the fantasy genre. I refused to read any book that does...
Arlinka Larissa Nov 1, 2013
Harry Potter well and truly put J.K. Rowling's name on the literary map and initiated her into the literary history...
Abby Wilson Oct 5, 2013
