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 and legends like Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in…
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 sommelier certification exams with flying colors, and receiving distinction from…
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 live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger…
Born into an oppressive colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage, disturbing rumours begin to circulate, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands…
We’re continuing the string of romantic reads today with Little, Brown UK supplying all the love in the form of Helena Hunting’s The Good Luck Charm. Lilah isn’t sure what hurt worse: the day Ethan left her to focus on…
Thank you to the lovely team at Little Brown’s Piatkus for sending me a copy of one of my most highly anticipated reads of 2019, The Unhoneymooners. You truly do learn something new everyday as unbeknownst to me, Christina Lauren,…