The Hard Way asks why women walking alone in the countryside is seen as something unusual, even radical, when nobody bats an eye at men doing the same. Author Susannah Walker took to the Ridgeway a…

Ring the Hill

The Body of the Thing is Karishma Jobanputra’s first collection of short stories, centred on women’s relationships, conscious and subconscious, with their bodies. Her writing is crisp a…

I bought This Is Grime after reading Jeffrey Boakye’s Hold Tight. I wanted to learn more about grime and its origins, and this oral history of the music genre and subculture is held up as the…

This Slavery is the third graphic novel adaptation I’ve read by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard, and the second of theirs I’ve read this year. It’s an adaptation of Ethel Carnie Holds…

Salt Lick is the second novel by contemporary fiction writer Lulu Allison. It is a warning to who we are now about what is coming next. In a near future that feels like only a few years away, the e…

These two beautiful books by Emma Cunningham, an artist and print maker specialising in illustration, are published by Design For Today. I pre-ordered Great Barfield Forever, which is officially pu…

Linea Axelsson’s prize-winning verse novel Ædnan, translated by Saskia Vogel, is an epic tale of the Sámi people of Northern Europe. Starting in 1913 and moving forward to 2016, it charts the…

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