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When Panic Attacks by Dr Áine Tubridy
Panic attacks affect millions of people and can be debilitating. Depending on the severity of the disorder, and the frequency of the...
Jun 28, 20221 min read


Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal is a conversation between linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky and economist Robert Pollin...
Jun 21, 20222 min read


Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Our narrator first met Tracey when they were young girls nervously waiting for their first dance class to start. Their friendship did not...
Jun 14, 20223 min read


Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour is seventeen years old and has just become the head of her small family in London. Her mother has just died,...
Jun 8, 20222 min read


Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
Why Marx Was Right is Terry Eagleton’s attempt at making Karl Marx’s theory accessible to all and to provide socialists with some...
May 24, 20222 min read


How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell
How to live? Read a lot, forget most of what you’ve read, and be slow-witted! How do you make peace with the fact of death? How do you...
May 12, 20222 min read


The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
The Trojan War has left destruction in its wake. The city is defeated, its men have been murdered, and the women enslaved. But the Greek...
Apr 26, 20222 min read


The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly,” is the brutal opening line of Elena Ferrante’s most...
Apr 19, 20223 min read


If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
What can you say about a work such as this? It has been several weeks now since I read it, and I still feel lost for words. If This Is a...
Apr 12, 20225 min read


Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
First developed in the 1940s, attachment theory originally dealt with the relationship between infants and their caregivers and is one of...
Mar 23, 20222 min read


Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Uncle Aziz comes by the house every year. His visits are always a cause for excitement. The wealthy merchant and his men are not only...
Mar 17, 20223 min read


The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield has been expelled from his prep-school. Again. Having failed all subjects but English he now has to pack his bags and go...
Mar 2, 20223 min read


Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
It is hot in this 1960s Harlem summer where we meet Ray Carney for the first time. A respectable furniture salesman, Carney is well-liked...
Feb 15, 20222 min read


Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
It is a bitter cold winter in Ireland, 1985. We are in a small town, among good Christian citizens and meet Bill Furlong, the coal...
Feb 8, 20222 min read


Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Frances and Bobbi are students at Trinity College, Dublin. They used to be lovers, now they are best friends who perform poetry together....
Feb 2, 20222 min read


Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
L’Isle des Cheavliers is a tropical paradise where the rich American candy manufacturer Valerian Street has chosen to retire with his...
Jan 25, 20222 min read


White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal have been best friends since their adventures during World War II, though none of their friends and family...
Jan 18, 20222 min read


My Top Reads of 2021
Here are the top 5 fiction and non-fiction books out of the 73 I’ve read this year. Fiction: Beloved by Toni Morrison Beloved is a...
Jan 11, 20223 min read


Milkman by Anna Burns
In an unnamed city, where two communities live in conflict with each other, where there is a right and a wrong kind of butter, just as...
Jan 4, 20222 min read


The Booker Prize 2021
Tomorrow, the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize will be announced. Over the past few weeks I read my way through the shortlist, and it was...
Nov 2, 20215 min read
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