Observations from Waterstones

The smell of old pages, the mumble of people reading, the books waiting to be picked up and taken home. … More

I Read 52 Books In 2021…Here’s What I Learnt

16,487 pages. 52 books. 2 books over my goal. Ever since I can remember, my relationship with books has been … More

When I was 15 I used to scour the internet to find lists with titles like ‘Top 50 Classic Books … More

Normal People by Sally Rooney isn’t my favourite book. It probably wouldn’t make my top five if I had to … More

As a study conducted by The Guardian shows, 41% of people are now reading more books. Lockdown has pushed for … More

Having recently read Zadie Smith’s compelling and engaging set of essays in her newest collection Intimations, which covers her thoughts … More

Sometimes I think I’m going illiterate when I read critical essays. There words are in front of me – and … More

Ling Ma’s Severance is the ultimate capitalist apocalypse novel. Between the way it eerily seemed to predict the coronavirus epidemic … More

I used to be a pristine reader. No crumpled pages, no scribbles in margins, not even sticky notes on the … More

As a reader, you start to see a hierarchy of genre forming in different sections of the community. For so-called … More