Alison Armstrong is a writer of prose and plays. She grew up in Leeds and East Yorkshire and has worked as a cleaner, waitress, painter...

“It's too much; it's painful. But it's delicious, good-bad pain, like the sugar-burn at the back of your throat when you’ve taken a...

“The river would flow on though, long after the earth had closed in around the bones of the past, and the land would become what it...

Unless if you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, this book has been absolutely everywhere. I have to say, I am pretty...

“As different as I’d thought we were, it felt a little bit like Gus and I were two aliens who’d stumbled into each other on earth only to...

"I pretend that I am simply captivated by Evelyn Hugo. Because, despite everything, I still am." (Pg. 373) Would I really be a book...

“Ninety-five percent of the time, I see Alex Nilsen in a purely platonic way, and I'd guess his number hovers a bit higher. But for that...

I downloaded Our Stop onto my kindle a few weeks ago. It was on one of those deals, so I looked at the blurb and thought it sounded like...

This is the best book I have read this year, without a doubt. Compulsive, uncomfortable, lyrical, and gasp-worthy, Sisters by Daisy...

"Giving up your heart is scary, but doable if the other person does it at the exact same moment, like two soldiers lowering their...

"The town moved together, united in its outpouring of grief. And yet, a predator roamed freely amongst them, undetected and unstoppable,...

“Even with my knowledge, I was sure Mother Nature was black: she had rhythm, symmetry and style. Throughout Northumberland and the holy...

Peninsula is Durham University's first ever creative writing anthology, written and edited by postgraduates from their English...

Blair James is a Salford-based writer and PhD student who works on memory and reliability. As soon as I heard about her upcoming debut...

Candice Carty-Williams' Queenie took the book world by storm, and I'd have to agree that it is a true hurricane of a novel - in the best...

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary was all over bookstagram in 2020. It was so hyped up that I was scared to read it - what if I didn't like...

2020 saw the publication of some incredible books by indie publishers. Two in particular made it to my 'best of 2020' list: Exit...

Rebecca Tamás' collection of essays, Strangers, spans the connection between body, mind, and land, exploring links between the...

It is officially spooky season, and as Halloween gets closer, it is the perfect time to crack out those gothic horrors. For me, this was...

I received Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn as part of the #diversitybookchain that I'm part of on Instagram, and I am so glad that...