She and Her Cat: Makoto Shinkai’s Debut Novel Review
Nobody captures life’s beauty like Makoto Shinkai. I remember watching Your Name in the cinema in 2016, completely mesmerised by the...
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Lara Mae Simpson
- Sep 28, 2022
- 4 min
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz: A Dazzling Portrait of Lesbians Through Time
Welcome book lovers, you are among friends. We all know this sign. But at Foyles Charing Cross Road, from 14th July to 15th August, an...
Bianca Layog
- Sep 19, 2022
- 4 min
The Promise of Escape: Reviewing Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lonely Castle in the Mirror follows Kokoro, a 7th grader at Yukishina No. 5 Junior High School. After having been...
Ariunzaya Batkhuyag
- Aug 2, 2022
- 2 min
Reviewing Bea Setton's Berlin - The New Sally Rooney?
Bea Setton’s debut novel, Berlin, is definitely one for this year’s “hot girl summer” reading list. The novel follows unreliable narrator...
Bianca Layog
- Jul 29, 2022
- 3 min
In Book Company: A Conversation with Elif Bautman
Adolescence is a strange creature.. The longest days stretch out as if intent on making you realise your misery, and yet time seems to...
Kathryn O'Rourke
- Apr 27, 2022
- 4 min
The Island of Missing Trees: Elif Shafak at The Trouble Club
The room on the 5th floor of AllBright had an intimate feeling. Potted plants hung from the skylights in the ceiling and a small crowd...
Holly Cornall
- Apr 23, 2022
- 3 min
Queer Gothic Tales: Leon Craig in Conversation at Waterstones Gower Street
On the 8th April, Waterstones Gower Street invited Leon Craig, a writer and member of the LGBT+ writing collective The Future is Back, to...
Kristyna Jelinkova
- Apr 22, 2022
- 4 min
Championing the Rom-Com at Waterstones Piccadilly
The romantic comedy genre can tell empowering stories by depicting characters facing relatable and moving situations. Yet it is often not...
Lara Mae Simpson
- Apr 14, 2022
- 3 min
Mala’s Cat Review: A Pertinent Reminder of the Violence of War
Holocaust memoirs are hard to read. Given the unfathomable brutality of this history, to hear a first-hand account of the Nazis’...
Kristyna Jelinkova
- Apr 12, 2022
- 3 min
Waterstones Gower St Indie Spotlight: Devika Ponnambalam in Conversation with Leonara Rustamova
On the 31st March at Waterstones Gower Street, author of new release I Am Not Your Eve, Devika Ponnambalam was joined by a prize-winning...
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