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The Booker Prize: Empowering or performative?

The Booker Prize: Empowering or performative?

The Booker Prize’s shortlist has been announced, and as always, each entry is laden with polemical and current societal commentaries. But why does this prize champion liberation? Perhaps due to its colonial past and problematic present.
Review: ‘Bangkok Wakes To Rain’ by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

Review: ‘Bangkok Wakes To Rain’ by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s debut novel ‘Bangkok Wakes To Rain’ masterfully follows the connected lives of a wide range of characters in the city of Bangkok
Review: ‘Freshwater’ by Akwaeke Emezi

Review: ‘Freshwater’ by Akwaeke Emezi

Sade Omeje reviews Akwaeke Emezi’s much anticipated debut novel, ‘Freshwater’, a surreal story of Ada, a child born as a Obanje.
Review: ‘Swan Song’ by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

Review: ‘Swan Song’ by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott’s novel is a brilliant representation of a literary icon, Truman Capote, and an incredible debut novel, writes Robert Boddy

Manchester student Alexander J. Allison talks about his first novel

Books editor talks to first-time author, and Manchester student, Alexander J. Allison