The lure of The Great Gatsby pulls readers in time and time again. A mysterious, handsome man pining for his long-lost Daisy Buchanan spirals into a whirlwind of beautiful imagery and chaos amid the glow of the Roaring Twenties. F.…
The lure of The Great Gatsby pulls readers in time and time again. A mysterious, handsome man pining for his long-lost Daisy Buchanan spirals into a whirlwind of beautiful imagery and chaos amid the glow of the Roaring Twenties. F.…
The 18th century was a prolific time in European literature as it saw the development of the modern novel as a literary genre. Although it is hard to say with certainty which work is considered the very first novel written…
Madeline Miller’s second novel, Circe, is a bestseller that’s been hailed as a feminist take on Greek myth. It takes a minor villain in Homer’s The Odyssey and turns her into a multi-faceted heroine. In Homer, Circe is beautiful and…
There are few modern writers as divisive as Chuck Palahniuk. His minimalist, repetitive style and bleak, amoral universes can be tough to enjoy; he’s admitted to purposefully twisting his prose to make it more difficult for readers to digest. Throw…
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki in 1954 and moved to the UK in 1960. He studied English and Philosophy at University of Kent and eventually went on to complete a Master’s in Creative Writing in 1980 at the University…
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes.” This opening line of Uprooted sets the tone for Naomi Novik’s self-aware fantasy where the Dragon is actually a wizard and the Enchanted Wood is a living nightmare. The fairy tale’s heroine,…
Dangerous, salacious, and blood soaked – vampire stories never go out of fashion. No matter the era, vampires exude style and draw readers in with that distinctive, enticing push and pull between the grotesque and the arousing. What are some…
Girl, Woman, Other, the joint recipient of the 2019 Man Booker Prize, is a gripping and lyrical portrait of the lives of twelve characters, mainly Black women. By the end of the book, Bernadine Evaristo brings all twelve together to…
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel imagines a world shaped by catastrophe: a new strain of flu wipes out most of the world’s population in a matter of weeks. The novel is a vibrant mosaic of moments before, during,…
Ann Patchett is an American author born in Los Angeles. She has written eight novels, her most recent being The Dutch House, which was published in September 2019, but she has also written pieces of non-fiction in the form of…