Tara Menon's debut novel, Under Water, is a haunting story of loss, the fragility of friendship, and the destructive relationship between humans and nature.
The winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction is THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans. It's an epistolary novel, told in a series of letters, emails, and messages, narrated by Sybil Van Antwerp, a 73-year-old woman.
It's rare for me to pick up a book of non-fiction that has nothing to do with literature, past or present. But Patrick Radden Keefe's LONDON FALLING has been the book that everyone has been talking about in London these past few months.
Xenobe Purvis's debut novel THE HOUNDING is set in the eighteenth century in the village of Little Nettlebed, Oxfordshire. It's the story of the five Mansfield sisters over the course of a hot, uncomfortable summer.
‘Listen for everything and above all, pay attention,’ is what the curator of the palace of a forgotten king says as they allow the expectant audience through the door. Rebecca Perry's debut novel MAY WE FEED THE KING is definitely a book in which we need to pay attention.
Every so often I come across a writer whose writing leaves me thinking, wanting more of the writing that lends itself to making the ordinary extraordinary. Gwendoline Riley is one such writer.
Arundhati Roy's memoir MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME is an intimate account of a daughter's grief at losing her mother. Written with both clarity and intensity, the memoir reflects on the turbulent mother-daughter relationship Roy shared with her single mother, Mary Roy.
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August 2025
What was the real Emily Brontë like? For years her only novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS has kept writers and academics wondering about the real mind behind this much-loved classic by one of Britain’s most famous literary stars.
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August 2025
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