A striking thing about reading Toibin's novel “Brooklyn” was how much its emotional power slowly crept up on me. The story follows Eilis Lacey, a young ...

I was absolutely delighted to be invited to the award ceremony and made a vlog about the experience. Though it was a bit drizzly at this outdoor party ...

I was absolutely delighted to be invited to the award ceremony and made a vlog about the experience. Though it was a bit drizzly at this outdoor party ...

Céspedes was a mid-20th century Cuban-Italian writer whose excellent novel “Forbidden Notebook” I fell in love with last year when a new English ...

Céspedes was a mid-20th century Cuban-Italian writer whose excellent novel “Forbidden Notebook” I fell in love with last year when a new English ...

Here are my 10 favourite books that I've read this year so far! A new video is up on my YouTube channel discussing why these are so special: ...

Here are my 10 favourite books that I've read this year so far! A new video is up on my YouTube channel discussing why these are so special: ...

Here are my 10 favourite books that I've read this year so far! A new video is up on my YouTube channel discussing why these are so special: ...

Oates does not shrink from depicting violence in her fiction. From her haunting fictionalisation of the Chappaquiddick incident in “Black Water” to a ...

Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night I'll read to lull myself back to sleep. Of course, I need to pick the right sort of reading material ...