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Anne of the Island. L.M. Montgomery. 1915. 272 pages. [Source: Bought]

“Harvest is ended and summer is gone,” quoted Anne Shirley, gazing
across the shorn fie […]

The UK’s literary magazine scene is crumbling due to rising print costs. But I’ll keep printing my own magazine, which gives writers of colour a voice, for as lon […]

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Anyone who has lost an hour or two to reading a book knows how magical it is to immerse yourself in a great story. Reading lets us to step into someone else’s s […]

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological i […]

The American writer traces the female form back to our ‘true ancestors’ in an epic combination of science and speculation that places women at the centre of his […]

Farther than the Moon. Lindsay Lackey. 2023. [September] 336 pages. [Source: Library] [MG Fiction, Realistic Fiction]First sentence: The moon hovered above them, a […]

169. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe. Steven Sheinkin. 2023. [August] 256 pages. [Source: Library] [MG Nonfiction; YA […]

Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington. Michael G. Long. Illustrated by Bea Jackson. 2023. 40 pages. [Source: Library] [nonfiction […]

The mental health campaigner’s new book tackles sex and relationships through the eyes of a 16-year-old. In the face of a backlash against inclusive sex ed in s […]

Strategy and unpredictability are a winning combination – as long as the rules are simpleWhen I was younger, my sister and I loved playing snakes and ladders. I t […]

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The distance between two remote islands in the Bering Strait is measured by different meanings of neighbourliness The DiomedesSummers he would sail for […]

A prickly misfit connects nine dark tales in this sad and sharply funny new book from the author of Ghost WorldDaniel Clowes’s graphic novels are getting darker. I […]

A memoir by the groundbreaking funk-rock-soul survivor contains all the playfulness and charm of his music but little in the way of insightWhen I heard that Sly […]

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The Jamaican poet on her new memoir chronicling life with an authoritarian father, reconfiguring the postcard image of her homeland and her love of Marvel comic […]

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The Golden Hill author turns his hand to the detective genre in a multilayered reimagining of 1920s AmericaFrancis Spufford’s fabulous third novel is a piece of p […]