Elizabeth Gibson quizzes Young Adult superstar Maggie Stiefvater on art, mythology, books and bagpipes

Jack Blenkinsopp reviews The University of Manchester alumnus Alfie Bown’s newest fast and witty critical theory novel, Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism.

Elizabeth Gibson updates us on the thriving Young Adult books scene

Hope Abbott reviews the new crime novel by Manchester-born author Marnie Riches

Benjamin Mortimer takes a look at the 19th Century essayist Thomas de Quincey’s view of drug culture, highlighting parallels with the present day

Ola Youssef reviews Fuel Café’s charity poetry event, Love Takes Guts, in aid of organ donation

Nearly a quarter of all students spend less than half of the recommended budget on food, and many sacrifice spending on university materials in order to eat

Elizabeth Gibson gives an insight into Young Adult literature in her four YA novel reviews

340 years after John Milton’s death, Leonie Dunn considers Milton’s epic portrayal of the Fall of Man

A list of the top five romantic reads just in time for Valentine’s Day

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 looks over the life of the prolific author C.S. Lewis

Nowadays we choose cheap thrills over classic knowledge; the book must not die

E-books are the future and nothing to be scared of

There’s a rumble in the jungle, but this time it’s our small book retailers getting knocked out

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

Andriana Hambi thinks that novels should stay on the page.

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

On August the 13th, 1944, David Kammerer was found stabbed to death at the bottom of the Hudson River. Alister Pearson explores the troubled relationship between he and his murderer, Lucien Carr.

Alister Pearson reviews Franz Kafka’s novel regarding bureaucracy and frustration, The Castle.