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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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