Jessie Betts

I read two of the newest releases from one of the UK’s leading indie publishers, Fitzcarraldo, and found two new treats that are already among my favourites of the year

Women’s writing has always been at the forefront of narrative and genre innovation, and here are six books that prove just that

The Booker Prize has been around since 1969, and with the 2025 Booker winner just being announced, let’s take a look at its position in the modern literary world

On a cold Autumn morning, I attended a writing workshop with author Lily Dunn, putting the advice in her book Into Being to good use

Jung Chang is back with Fly, Wild Swans; a follow-up to 1991’s monumental Wild Swans. She attended Manchester Literature Festival to discuss the book, and her family histories, with Erica Wagner

Emerald Fennell’s upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation will be a terrible, superficial adaptation with no reverence for its source material

Here are five gentle reads to guide you through the beginning of a new semester.

Ali Smith’s latest novel and modern dystopia, Gliff, unlocks more than just a fear of surveillance and silencing

BookTok is doing the thinking for us, and ruining our curiosity in the process

In light of his novel Munichs being shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, I sat down with David Peace to discuss writing and his love for Manchester

In light of the recent publication of Intermezzo, let’s take a look at every Sally Rooney novel and see how they each stack up against each other

David Peace came to HOME to discuss Munichs, his fictional dramatisation of the 1958 Munich plane crash that killed twenty-three people