Next to Du Maurier, Angela Carter is one of my all-time favourite storytellers. Her masterpiece The Bloody Chamber sees Carter spin subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales…
Book Review: Doctor Faustus
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly known simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe. Based on German stories about the…
Book Review: Wine Girl by Victoria James
At just twenty-one, Victoria James became the country’s youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even as Victoria was selling bottles worth hundreds and thousands of dollars during the day, passing…
Book Review: Jenny Slate’s Little Weirds
To see the world through comedian Jenny Slate’s eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we…
Book Review: This Is Going to Hurt (Prime Student Book Club ‘Book of the Term’)
97-hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled…
Book Review: The Good Soldier
Wealthy American John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly intimate manner how he and his wife Florence meet an English couple in a German spa resort. They become friends…