• Mythology was Made to Evolve: Why Christopher Nolan’s new ‘Odyssey’ should be given a chance

    Before Homer’s Odyssey was ever written down, it existed for centuries as word of mouth, passing from travelling storytellers, to poets, to performers, like a big game of ‘telephone’. They didn’t memorise it word for word but remixed the plot, hyped up different characters, and changed it based on the audience.

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  • Book Review: No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes

    A reimagining of Euripides, the story centres on Jason’s treacherous quest for the Golden Fleece with the Argonauts, but shifts the spotlight to expose the cost of his ambition, the women whose lives he disrupts and destroys.

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  • Book Review: The Wedding People by Alison Espach

    The Wedding People follows Phoebe Stone, a recently divorced and depressed woman who arrives at a Rhode Island luxury hotel with the intention of ending her life. Mistaken for a guest at the extravagant destination wedding, Phoebe unexpectedly finds herself at the center of the bridal party, including the furious bride, Lila. Through a series of chance…

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  • Book Review: The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

    Simon and Marie can’t seem to have a baby. They decide to flee the city for an idyllic village, where things, they tell themselves, must be better. But their new home is gloomy, threatening, tinged with tragedy – things have not been the same since the factory closed down and the broadcast antenna was erected.

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  • Book Review: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

    Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

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  • Book Review: Making a Killing by Cara Hunter (Adam Fawley series #7)

    DCI Adam Fawley and his team are thrust back into a case they thought was closed: the 2016 disappearance of eight-year-old Daisy Mason, where her mother was convicted of murder despite the body never being found. New forensic evidence in a current murder investigation casts doubt on the original conviction, forcing Fawley to reopen the case…

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  • Book Review: The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. Maclean

    Set in a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens, The Phoenix Keeper is a fierce joy of a cozy fantasy novel with a soul-restoring queer romance at its heart, for fans of The House in the Cerulean Sea and Legends and Lattes.

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  • Confession time: my “to be read” (TBR) pile has officially reached monstrous proportions. It’s no longer a quaint stack but a looming, judgmental tower of unread books, and frankly, it’s stressing me out. Does anyone else love the idea of a huge home library? All the unread books, a collection of future adventures, waiting to…

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