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Book Recommendations: July
I haven't been writing as much recently; life is finally a bit exciting again and I'm just letting myself enjoy it. But I thought I'd...
Jul 31, 20212 min read
Book Recommendations: May
Fiction Love in Colour, Bolu Babalola Now I’m not usually a fan of romance fiction, something that this collection falls into. But I had...
May 31, 20217 min read
Book Recommendations: April
My energy for writing is feeling slightly low this weekend so I’ll keep this lot of book recommendations as brief as possible! Fiction...
May 2, 20213 min read
American Dirt
Normally, I would save my discussion of any books that I’ve read for my end-of-month roundup of my reading. I thought, however, that this...
Apr 25, 20216 min read
Book Recommendations: March
Fiction The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré This was just such an incredibly moving, inspiring story, executed with sensitivity and...
Mar 31, 20218 min read
Book Recommendations: February
Fiction Small Island, Andrea Levy This was a touching read centred around the Windrush Generation and the effects of WWII on both black...
Feb 28, 20219 min read
Book Recommendations: January
Fiction Elizabeth Day, The Party At a certain stage during the evening, at just the point where the liminal haze of extreme tipsiness...
Jan 31, 202110 min read
Book Recommendations: December
Fiction Octavia Butler, Kindred Through compelling first-person narration, Octavia Butler crafts a tale of history and humanity, weaving...
Dec 28, 20204 min read
Can we ever kill the author?
On JK Rowling, Transphobia, and the Power of the Author I would like to start this post with a disclaimer that I do not plan to set out...
Dec 6, 20206 min read
Book Recommendations: November
Fiction Brandon Taylor, Real Life Eventually, they are all just people going about their lives, shopping and eating, laughing and...
Nov 30, 20207 min read
Book Recommendations: October - Bumper Edition
Turns out I've read a lot this month (thanks to both the disappearance of the good weather and thus large parts of my social life, and...
Oct 31, 202010 min read
Book recommendations: September.
Fiction: Disclaimer, Renee Knight (2015) This book contains theme of sexual assault. Straplined with, “Imagine if the next thriller you...
Sep 30, 20204 min read
Book Recommendations: August.
Adam Rutherford, How to Argue with a Racist. Reading Rutherford’s concise guide to the genetics behind racism – and anti-racism – evoked...
Sep 2, 20203 min read
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