The Underground Railroad BY Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead’s award winning The Underground Railroad is a fast-paced adventure which follows an enslaved girl, Cora, on her bid for freedom from her brutal plantation in the deep-South. The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner cements its place as a modern classic by merging slave testimonies with a realistic imagining of the ‘underground railroad’, which results in a dramatic historical fiction novel […]

The Beekeeper of aleppo by christy lefteri

When you think of refugees your mind isn’t usually drawn to thinking about their life and humanity before becoming labelled a “refugee” and all the associations that go with that term. In this book Christy tells a story about Nuri a beekeeper and his wife Afra an artist who go from living a simple life, […]

It by Stephen King

From an early age I had a fascination with cinema. I watched many films that were too old for me to see at a very young and impressionable age. I never look back at that and think ill of my parents for letting this be the case, I thank them for it. I watched scary […]

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is a speculative fiction book about Rosemary Harper, a young woman who wants to leave her past behind by joining the crew of the Wayfarer. The ageing ship is host to a rag-tag bunch of misfits and together they travel to the farthest corners of the galaxy. I […]

The Good Immigrant – Nikesh Shukla [ed]

The Good Immigrant is a collection of essays and personal reflections about race and identity in the UK. The book offers fascinating insight into contemporary thought regarding race and immigration in twenty-first century Britain. Each essay is beautifully written, easily accessible, and offers fresh perspectives on what it means to exist in England as a non-white […]