Just Kids by Patti Smith is a testament to New York, art, and Robert Mapplethorpe, and is the perfect escapism for the winter lockdown

Maisie Scott reviews Before the Coffee Gets Cold and the novel’s depiction of time travel and the modern coffee shop

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Now the Twitter storm has died down, Aileen Loftus reads Troubled Blood in light of Rowling’s problematic views on transgender identity

Martin Amis explores what it means to love, to write, and to die in his latest novel titled Inside Story.

Aileen Loftus questions whether students can leave school without having studied a novel by a black author

Gabriele Dragunaite reads Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and finds its existential content still bearable in 2020

Jonathan Hosking reflects on Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and its depiction of marriage, race and religion

Maisie Scott discusses online book clubs, getting involved, and how to set up your own

Maisie Scott spotlights Bookshop.org and their ethical partnerships with local bookshops across the UK

Aileen Loftus finds out more about the HarperCollins Author Academy and how to get involved

You’re going to click on this review of Free Will, aren’t you? You never had a choice

Maisie Scott chats with Blackwell’s Manchester about the launch of their new same-day delivery service

Aileen Loftus explains how this years #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize will work

Maisie Scott chats with Zoe from Comma Press and discusses Northern soul, lockdown and the National Creative Writing Industry Conference

Ruby Opalka reflects on Three Women by Lisa Taddeo and discusses sexuality, feminism and desire.

Maisie Scott and Aileen Loftus recommend five books by black authors to read during Black History Month

The Twilight companion novel no one asked for in 2020