Books Archive
26th April 2022
Review: People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
Does People Person live up to Candice Carty-Williams’ debut bestseller Queenie?
4th April 2022
Blind date with a book: a marketing ploy?
Blind date with a book: a marketing ploy or a way to branch out of your reading comfort zone? And can you guess Blackwell’s mystery book from a sentence?
31st March 2022
Judging a book by its cover: Penguin clothbound classics
Are Penguin clothbound classics perpetuating a boring white canon?
25th March 2022
Mothers of all kinds
With Mother’s Day nearly upon us, Audre Lorde’s essay discussing her experience of lesbian parenthood from her collection ‘Sister Outsider’ is the perfect text to reflect on non-conventional parent dynamics
22nd March 2022
The Handmaid’s Tale revisited
The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments detail a new America: Gilead. Though rooted in fantasy, Gilead reflects the disasters of today
20th March 2022
Feminist Collective Lit Club: read your way to accessible feminism
The UoM Feminist Collective have brought back their Lit Club, online and accessible to all. Find out what they’ve got coming up!
15th March 2022
How to Kill Your Family, kill subtlety, and kill nuance
Bella Mackie’s debut fiction novel How to Kill Your Family is let down by its lack of subtlety and its caricatured characters
10th March 2022
Literary Friction: A podcast for book lovers
Ava Innes explores Literary Friction, a podcast perfect for those who need a break from books, but not the ideas behind them
7th March 2022
A little review of a large book: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Does Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise live up to the success of her much loved previous novel A Little Life?
7th March 2022
A Little Life: looking back at Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller
In light of the release of To Paradise, we take a look at Hanya Yanagihara’s previous bestseller A Little Life to see why it is still shaking its readers to their core
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7th March 2022
A little event: an evening with Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara came to Manchester, a dream come true for fans of A Little Life and To Paradise
2nd March 2022
TikTok made me read it: It Ends with Us
Can content warnings ruin a book’s storyline? Hannah Wellock reviews BookTok sensation and New York Times Best Seller It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover and discusses its lack of a content warning
1st March 2022
It’s ace being ace: a review of Ace by Angela Chen
Whether this is your first time hearing the term asexuality or you identify as asexual, Ace by Angela Chen is essential reading
24th February 2022
TikTok made me read it: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
By delving into the world of Evelyn Hugo and her seven husbands, we look at whether Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book is worth the hype surrounding it on TikTok
22nd February 2022
This is [not] Going to Hurt book sales
Is Adam Kay milking the success of his bestselling memoir This is Going to Hurt?
17th February 2022
Snapshots of the Apocalypse: swap deadlines for dystopias
Snapshots of the Apocalypse, the new short story collection by Katy Wimhurst, makes the perfect reading for study breaks
17th February 2022
In conversation with Dr Clara Dawson about decolonising the curriculum
Jacob Folkard talks to Dr Clara Dawson on how to examine our past for a better future, and what the steps The University of Manchester have taken to decolonise the literature curriculum
17th February 2022
Make 2022 the year you read
Have you always wanted to read more books? Look no further, here we have a couple of tips and a book list to get you started.
16th February 2022
The power of porn: discussing Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex
Deputy books editor Ava Innes looks at the state of porn today, discussing the ideas of Amia Srinivasan in her new book ‘The Right to Sex’
11th February 2022
Valentine’s: five books for a break-up
If you’re feeling heartbroken this Valentine’s Day, here are the best books to read following a break-up