Books

Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Reflecting on the colonialist, classist structure of British society, Assembly is a remarkably powerful book that takes a poetic and poignant look at Black…

Words by Paige Braithwaite, Staff Writer TW: Sexual assault and abuse ‘10 minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World’(2019), by British-Turkish author Elif Shafak is an absorbing and poignant…

Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age (2019) is an observant, entertaining, and current examination of privilege and racism in the US. Reid…

Raising fascinating and current questions around motherhood and female identity, Lessing’s The Fifth Child, with its spectre of the ambivalent mother, is an immersive look into the uncanny Words by…

Words by Saskia May, Books Editor TW: Racism and violence The New York Times #1 bestseller, The Vanishing Half (2020), is a story with a nonlinear narrative that traverses decades,…

Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Published as a ‘biomythography’, Zami (1982) is Audre Lorde’s only novel. Loosely based on her childhood in New York in the 1930s and 40s,…

Words by Saskia May ‘I am glad that our love has weathered so well’, renowned modernist writer Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary in October 1940. Woolf was, of course,…

By Molly Openshaw On the 7th September, Sally Rooney released her third and arguably most anticipated novel yet. After the release of Normal People, which was subsequently adapted into a…

Words by Adam Kerry A new London airport in the Thames, referenda on EU membership, and radical zines. All sounds very 2010s right? Well yes and no. This is actually…

Words By Hanani Aslam Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel and first book since winning the Nobel Prize in 2017, presents an elegant tale about artificial intelligence, love,…

Words by Oliver Mizzi When we think about Afghanistan we think of America’s long war – the forever war. We don’t think about the early days of the Afghan tragedy.…

Words by Molly Openshaw & Robyn Cowie Here is a taste of the book to film/television adaptations we can expect to see through the rest of 2021. Many are hotly…

Verity Spott is an alumnus from the University of Sussex and a Brighton based poet about politics and social issues. Verity co-runs the event Horseplay in Brighton which is a…

Brighton based writer of “One Morning, One Moment” discusses the role of gender in writing and how women are represented in literature. Words by Molly Openshaw Sarah Rayner is the…

While the Romance genre thrives this Valentine’s day, we need to diversify our bookshelves.

Words by Jerry Silvester Not every piece of art relating to an unpleasant event consumes us in a way we want to resist. In fact, sometimes just as we’re ready…

Words by Eric Barrell This year, the Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd marked the biggest civil rights movement the world had seen in decades. In…

Bret Easton Ellis’ cult classic novel sparked controversy when it was first published in 1991. Patrick Bateman is a character who inspires both revulsion and admiration in the book and…

Words by Jasmine Smith If you’re new to the city, Brighton has endless avenues of discovery. The perfect mix of modern and historical means Brighton is a great location for…

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