New poetry for February: ALL ABOUT OUR MOTHERS + Kathryn Driscoll explore beauty and pain
Mab Jones' monthly collection of new poetry features anthology collection All About Our Mothers and Kathryn O'Driscoll's triggering Cliff Notes.
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Mab Jones' monthly collection of new poetry features anthology collection All About Our Mothers and Kathryn O'Driscoll's triggering Cliff Notes.
The messages surrounding invisible disabilities and dismissal of women’s pain are well-delivered in Mona Awad's Shakespeare-inflected book, All's Well.
Despite the literally morbid title, there’s an optimistic feel throughout Andrew Doig’s new volume on the history of death, This Mortal Coil.
An atmospheric tale from a truly magnificent linguist, The Colony - from Women's Prize shortlisted author Audrey Magee - will leave a lasting impression.
The Couple At The Table is the perfect escape from the mania of the current world, without compromising on thrill-factor.
Despite the gravity of its subject, Guardian journalist Rob Davies steers away from delivering a sermon by making Jackpot a surprisingly funny and fascinating read.
Pola Oloixarac’s third novel Mona casts a cynical gaze over the literary world but soon runs out of steam - and jokes.
“Radical, reformist and revolutionary women” pepper the pages of Nan Sloane's Uncontrollable Women, which should be welcomed into political literature as a map of the path taken to get to where Britain is today.
In Adam Roberts' The This, cult-like tech companies and social media hardwired into our brains changes the course of human history in frighteningly fatalist ways.
Britons Through Negro Spectacles (1909) is one of a collection of Black-written books on life in the UK, compiled by Bernardine Evaristo.
In Love Marriage, the latest offering from Monica Ali - ten years since her last novel was published - a complex, timely love story unfolds.
Those looking to expand their literary journey around the world shouldn't disregard lesser-known female voices, as Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers makes clear.
Taking inspiration from 70-year old letters, Dennis Turner tells the improbable tale of Catholic Sisters who defied Hitler in Nazi-occupied Belgium.
Rediscovered classics A Ray of Darkness and Nightingale Silenced provide a good chance for unfamiliar readers to get to know revived Welsh writer Margiad Evans better.
Gilly Macmillan's The Long Weekend turns a couples' yearly retreat to a remote location into a pulse-pounding game of murder and, of course, mystery.
Focussing on the aftermath of a young soldier's death in WWI, The Key In The Lock finds author Beth Underdown in fine form.
Donetella Di Pietrantonio's A Sister's Story tells the tale of two siblings whose relationship is a complicated one of love, rivalry, betrayal and, ultimately, hope.
The protagonists in Saba Sams’ stories teen girls and women trying to navigate modern life, are as messy as they’re empowering. Send Nudes is no exception.
In My Father's Diet, Adrian Nathan West shines a light on problems that can't be fixed by extreme body transformations, which his absent father becomes obsessed with.
For every girl who has had a regrettable relationship: go ahead, heave a collective sigh at Fuccboi, a book that celebrates a mediocre man.
A small book filled with an ocean of enthusiasm and ideas, Earth Spirit by Steve Andrews is a passionate plea to defend our seas.
Following an embalmer who volunteers to tend to the victims of the famed Aberfan tragedy, A Terrible Kindness is an excellent debut from Jo Browning Wroe.
From “Roman” steps to 80s postpunk, Anhrefn's Rhys Mwyn will make you keen to explore the northwest of Wales in new travel book, Real Gwynedd.
Encompassing betrayal, class, racial stereotyping, judicial prejudice and media-fuelled hate, The Gosling Girl raises many poignant questions.