Stevie Smith was born 1902 into an interesting mix. The marriage between her parents disintegrated early and her father ran…
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of SYLVIA PLATH
Whether Sylvia Plath needs yet another biography is fair to question (and whether the internet needs me to discuss Plath…
Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
Finishing Women Don’t Owe You Pretty, I’ve really struggled to define it’s genre. Florence Given herself has referred to it…
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
To make a mockery of this play and to be bluntly tongue-in-check, this play is a little be extra. It…
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Thought I would give reading The Complete Works of Shakespeare a bash before we globally conclude the Coronavirus saga, so…
The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile: The Power of Odd
Dan Davies’ extensive biography In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile documents the life and career of…
Bare-Faced Messiah: Observations
Russell Miller’s Bare-Faced Messiah is a biography which spans the life of L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology’s founder. It highlights the…
Antony and Cleopatra: Cleopatra’s obsession threatens to retitle it ‘Antony and Antony’
William Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’, is thought to be have been first performed in 1607, in the later part of…
Atomised: Literary vulgarity
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, I suspect was recommended to me to in an attempt to goad me. However, despite the…
Everything I Never Told You (Or At Least Some of It)
Everything I Never Told You is the debut novel of the American author Celeste Ng. This is not my first…
