Books editor Alister Pearson looks at this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Patrick Modiano, and how a man who is barely known outside his native country France managed to win the much revered prize

Books Editor Leonie Dunn looks over the Christmas Amazon boycott and focuses on why it is both a positive and negative action to take

Leonie Dunn looks to Library Live’s last event that aimed to smash down cultural presumptions and inhibitions surrounding Manchester’s Central Library

Books Editor Leonie Dunn helps you with a list of stocking fillers for this Christmas

Books Editor Leonie Dunn looks over the life of the prolific author C.S. Lewis

Jay Fagerberg recommends this rather small and unassuming book to the truly passionate evolution geek or the Hermione-esque student who wants to impress their teacher, as it is jam-packed with facts and features on the theory of evolution

Books Editor Leonie Dunn picks her top 5 novels on those faceless killers and their detective counterparts

Books editor Alister Pearson reviews Russell Brand’s third book, ‘Revolution’, that commands us to overturn this corrupt capitalist society in favour for a society focused on love

May Dylan Thomas’ death have no dominion

After Halloween, Books Editor Alister Pearson gives his top 5 horror works of literature

Gregory Watson reviews Sophia Al-Maria’s multifaceted exhibition Virgin With a Memory, which is currently on show at the Cornerhouse until 2nd November

Following the official banned books week, Alister Pearson chooses his top five most controversial books ever

As it is Mental Health Awareness Week, Books Editor Leonie Dunn picks the top 5 most iconic novels that focus and reflect on mental health

Nafisi “invites us to join her as citizens of her ‘Republic of Imagination,’ a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.”

Alister Pearson returns to 1957 when legendary absurdist Albert Camus won the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature

Alister Pearson tells you why Hubert Selby is his literary hero after reading Last Exit to Brooklyn

Books Editor Alister Pearson provides a response to Leonie Dunn in favour of the Kindle

“Probably no theory evolved by man is as absurd as Sigmund Freud’s theory of penis envy.” –Esther Vilar in ‘The Manipulated Man’.

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”

With the ever looming start of term approaching fast how are you going to be catching up on your reading?