Book Review: Girlfriends by Holly Bourne
When Fern's childhood best friend, Jessica, unexpectedly reappears in her life, the reunion is fraught with the heavy, unexplored baggage of their shared adolescence. Jessica was wild and attractive in…
When Fern's childhood best friend, Jessica, unexpectedly reappears in her life, the reunion is fraught with the heavy, unexplored baggage of their shared adolescence. Jessica was wild and attractive in…
After watching the TV adaptation of The Peripheral in 2022, I was curious about what was next on William Gibson’s Jackpot trilogy. While I hadn’t read the first book, I…
What if the British government discovered time travel and decided the best use of this world-altering technology was... bureaucracy? That's the delightfully absurd premise of Kaliane Bradley's debut novel, which…
I read Satya Doyle Byock’s Quarterlife in a dentist’s waiting room over the course of four appointments for a root canal. Having weathered my own quarter-life crisis when I pivoted…
When I first started reading Megan Nolan’s debut novel Acts of Desperation, it didn’t immediately draw me in. In fact, I ended up reading her second novel Ordinary Human Failings…
I first heard about Luster by Raven Leilani when it made Obama’s list of favourite books for 2020. At the time, I was reading poetry by Ocean Vuong and had…
All Fours caught a bit of buzz in 2024 for its premise — a married woman upending her life on a quest for freedom and a sexual awakening. It was…
When a young girl dies while playing with other children in a London estate, suspicion is cast on a ten-year-old girl from a reclusive Irish family — the Greens. The…