Books
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Dex and Emma forever: how One Day became the literary phenomenon of the Noughties
I can still remember my mum’s disclaimer as she put her copy of One Day on my sun lounger, the paperback’s orange cover slightly…
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Poet Andrew McMillan on mixing mining communities and drag queens in his debut novel Pity
It is mid-morning, the middle of the week, and Andrew McMillan is at work. Like all poets, even the really…
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Kiley Reid’s Come and Get it and the (cost of living on) campus novel
Every university seems to have one hall of residence that no one wants to live in. The one that looks like…
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The best non-fiction books to read in 2024
Sorry, but we’re about to make your reading pile for 2024 very big. From candid memoirs to provocative essays, little-told…
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Filthy rich and highly subversive – Agatha Christie was anything but a harmless old lady in a tweed suit
Do you feel that Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a bit of televisual homicide? Maybe a murder on the Orient…
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Filthy rich and highly subversive – Agatha Christie was anything but a harmless old lady in a tweed suit
Do you feel that Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a bit of televisual homicide? Maybe a murder on the Orient…
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The books we give as gifts
Forget socks. Leave the Next voucher. Put the Terry’s Chocolate Orange down. If chosen wisely, a book is the very…
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How the horror and trauma of the trenches gave the world its two greatest war poets
All the armies in the First World War had a word for it: the Germans called it Kriegsneurose; the French,…
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John Cooper Clarke, beloved Bard of Salford: ‘If you gave me access to the internet, you’d find me dead in six weeks under pizza boxes’
When the young John Cooper Clarke told his family he was going to be a professional poet, they were aghast.…
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I met Benjamin Zephaniah several times – he was as open and kind-hearted as his poetry
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas,” wrote Benjamin Zephaniah in a poem I know he’d be proud to learn…
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