The story starts off with a tale of a beautiful girl who bravely faces the winter demon Morozko and is rewarded riches beyond imagination. This old folktale slowly unravels in the novel to be the […]
Review: Here’s Looking at You Kid
Helen Burke is a seasoned poet and has amassed an impressive array of competition successes over the years. Valley Press have released an anthology of her most requested poems… Here’s Looking at You Kid is […]
Review: Confidence
The debut of writing team Rowland Manthorpe and Kirsten Smith, Confidence tracks two occasionally coinciding protagonists as they navigate the trials and tribulations of their final year at university. Ellie has hit a brick wall […]
Review: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
In his debut novel, Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel brings a fresh and global perspective to the well-worn science fiction trope of giant alien robots. When Rose Franklin is eleven, she falls into a hole while […]
New cafe set to open in Edward Boyle
The Edward Boyle Library is set to open its first café ready for second semester. Great Food at Leeds have announced that the coffee shop ‘The Book Club’ will be located on level nine, and […]
Review: Room
As Room debuts in cinemas, In The Middle takes the book back off the shelf. Inspired by the real Joseph Fritzl case, Emma Donoghue’s Room is a powerful and poignant story about the strong maternal […]
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
SPOILER WARNING I didn’t realise how much respect I had for Go Set A Watchman until I finished the last sentence and paused, thinking about what I had just read. A plethora of emotions passed […]
Leaving Time, by Jodi Picoult
Highly renowned author Jodi Picoult is back with yet another outstanding novel that will undoubtedly make bestseller lists. Leaving Time is an emotional story of a daughter’s search for her mother and the discovery of […]
Books | One Night in Winter – A gripping and elaborate tale of Soviet Russia
Simon Sebag Montefiore is most renowned for his historical works on Stalin and Soviet Russia, but he has made a seamless transition in to the world of fiction with his new novel, One Night in […]
Books | Ron Burgundy The Autobiography – An exercise in patience
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any mildly successful film must be accompanied by an obligatory novelisation of the story. These are, almost always a trashy waste of time made purely for the sake […]