Shakespeare-inflected ALL’S WELL confronts chronic pain sufferers’ struggle to be heard
The messages surrounding invisible disabilities and dismissal of women’s pain are well-delivered in Mona Awad's Shakespeare-inflected book, All's Well.
The messages surrounding invisible disabilities and dismissal of women’s pain are well-delivered in Mona Awad's Shakespeare-inflected book, All's Well.
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.
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.
For every girl who has had a regrettable relationship: go ahead, heave a collective sigh at Fuccboi, a book that celebrates a mediocre man.
The second in Louise Carey's Inscape series, the dystopian world of Outcast, scarily, isn't a future too far removed from our own present.
Each story in Catalogue of a Private Life by Libyan author Najwa Bin Shatwan navigates a topic that feels resonant with our understanding of worldwide worries.
The Missing Pieces of Mum is a testament to Sally Herbert’s determination to find out who her grandmother really was.
With the modern world such an unholy mess Robin McLean catapults us back to the Wild West in Pity the Beast.
Skylark from Alice O'Keefe is a thought-provoking, well-researched saga of worlds colliding and lives that will never be the same.
Chouette, from Claire Oshetsky, uses strange subject matter to question our assumptions about parenthood and children.
Courttia Newland's Cosmogramma is an excellent collection of short stories illustrated via animalistic observations of humanity.
Sammy Wright's book Fit casts a grim but absorbing view into young, contemporary Britain with mixed levels of detail.