What we're reading
What we're reading: Romanova, Peters & Richardson
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Jessica Strong is reading Goblin Girl by Moa Romanova (translated by Melissa Bowers).
Goblin Girl is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel which follows a young struggling artist who matches on a dating app with a famous celebrity, Known TV-Guy, 53, who quickly becomes a source of intense validation for her personage and a…
What we're reading: Nolan, Mason & Saramago
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Tye Cattanach is reading Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
It may surprise some of you to learn I am one of those shocking people who believes books want to be interacted with in a physical manner. Spines cracked, pages dog-eared, sentences underlined, pages marked so I can return to a paragraph or…
What we're reading: Hall, Thorne & Welsh
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Gabrielle Williams is reading The Gaps by Leanne Hall
I’m reading The Gaps by Leanne Hall. Full disclosure, Leanne is a friend and a work colleague so of course you’d expect me to say great things about her book! But I love The Gaps for all kinds of reasons, none of which are…
What we're reading: a deep-dive into Scottish literature and a round-up from our head book buyer
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Our head book buyer Alison Huber has been busy reading for the year ahead while still finding the time to catch up with friends from Middle-earth.
I’m just back to work after three weeks of annual leave. I set myself a pretty challenging reading schedule, and some of that was undermined by a…
What we're reading: Saunders, Forsyth, and Maas
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Joe Rubbo is reading A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Some of George Saunders happiest memories arise from teaching Russian short stories to a small group of students - 6, to be exact, chosen from a pool of 600 - at Syracuse University, something he’s done for the…
What we're reading: Taddeo, Brown & Wilkerson
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Amanda Rayner is reading Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
One of my reading goals this year is to alternate reading a pre-2021 book from my TBR bookshelf with a book released this year. As Lisa Taddeo has her debut novel Animal due out in early June this year, I saw it as a…
What we’re reading: Dean, Nunez & Di Pietrantonio
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Gabrielle Williams is reading A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
This week I’m reading the upcoming (9 February), A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez. Having read her earlier book, The Friend, I’m compelled to read everything that falls from her fingers.
Her new book…
What we're reading: Ullmann, Meddlings & Frazier
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Joanna Di Mattia is reading Unquiet by Linn Ullmann
I’m very close to finishing an utterly engrossing novel, my first by the Norwegian writer, Linn Ullmann. Unquiet is categorised as fiction - and that’s certainly where we shelve it in store - but it’s so much more than a conventional novel.
Ullmann writes…
What we're reading: Haynes, Quinn & North
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Lian Hingee is reading A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
For someone who’s never read The Iliad (and truthfully, probably never will) I have a deep and abiding fascination for the story of the Trojan War. Pat Barker’s remarkable novel The Silence of the Girls was one of my favourite books of 2019…
What we're reading: Solnit, French & Stuart
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Mark Rubbo is reading Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
I took last week off and greedily devoured a number of books. The one I enjoyed most was last year’s Booker Prize winner, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. Set in Glasgow in Thatchers era, this is the grim story of a dysfunctional family and…
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