These novellas are relaible reads - I know they will get me out of a reading slump because the...

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A haunting and necessary fictional account of a real-life tragedy. Necessary, because it takes...

Greg Jenner looks ahead to the new series of You're Dead to Me.

From USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo comes a beautiful new tale in the Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle, drawn from the earliest days of Chih's ca...

Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

We're once again inviting you to Take Your Seats for world-class theatre courtesy of National Theatre at Home, completely free on YouTube. Stream The Importance of Being Earnest Live on Thursday 12th ...

5/5: I have no idea how Du Maurier did it! Slowly revealing how unreliable Philip is as a narrator, while keeping my sympathy despite his many faults. Creating a character in Rachel who is so beguilin...

Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...

4/5: A compelling and sexy book that explores what lies beneath the surface and what is being repressed on both an individual and a national level. The short, staccato sentences added to the tension a...

4/5: An evocative, funny, and moving novel chronicling centuries of human and natural history centred on a house and its surrounding land in Massachusetts. From the 17th century to the present, and t...

Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles

4/5: I know KJC can write the heck out of a second chance romance (Jackdaw is probably my favourite of hers) so I was excited to pick this book up. However, I was a bit disappointed. Four stars becau...

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

3/5: Gently humourous book about kind, quiet people living ordinary lives. I wasn't particularly engaged (hence 3 stars) and the whimsy was a bit much for me at times, but I would recommend it to anyo...

4/5: Book club pick that I admired, but found tough to read. It's about Native people in an urban setting (Oakland, California), identity, family, generational trauma, and what it's like to live in a ...

A History Today Book of the YearFinalist for the Lambda…

3/5: A dark, twisted fairytale (and perhaps an allegory about the death of empathy under facism??). Took me a while to get into because it's so weird, and there's a distinct lack of emotion from the n...

A first look at Alexander Skarsgård’s sci-fi comedy series from ‘About a Boy’ filmmakers Chris and Paul Weitz.