Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they…
Memoir
2023 in Book Reviews: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, The Marriage Portrait & The Herd
For transparency, I’ve reached December and realised I am horribly behind compiling these reviews and I have read so many book this year so here’s another one!! Surprise!! You just…
Book Review: The Audacity by Katherine Ryan
From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction. Detailing Katherine Ryan’s journey from a naive…
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: Everything I Know About Love
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her…
Book Review: James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows like Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Russell Howard’s Stand…
Book Review: Reasons to Stay Alive
Like nearly one in five people, Matt Haig suffers from depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is Haig’s inspiring account of how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame…