by Sophie Wilson | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog Post, Book Recommendations
Strong women. Good vs evil. Attractive people. And a very healthy dose of smut. My reading life before Covid was fairly tame with my favourite go to genres being historical fiction, fantasy and feminist literature. When shit started to hit the fan in March, I actually...
by Sophie Wilson | Aug 29, 2020 | Blog Post, Book Recommendations, Book Review
After reading Daisy’s novels ‘Everything Under’ and ‘Sisters’, I would best describe the world she creates as shadowy. It’s like stepping out in to the dark at night – things stop behaving predictably, there’s a lack of distinctness and outlines get blurry. I thought...
by Sophie Wilson | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog Post, Book Recommendations
Let’s rewind to this time last year, Summer 2019, and remember how I’d just finished my first year at university as an English Lit student, how I was thankful for the break from exams and coursework, though perhaps most interestingly, how I was excited to take a break...
by Sophie Wilson | Aug 11, 2020 | Blog Post, Book Recommendations
With the world slowly settling into a new normal, the publishing industry is also returning in full force, boasting with a whole host of brilliant summer and autumn releases. While I’m already working on my Christmas wish list (it’s getting longer by the day!), I have...
by Sophie Wilson | Aug 6, 2020 | Book Recommendations, Book Review
I’ve been fascinated with Anais Nin for a long time. She published seven volumes of diaries (from 1931 – 1974), the most famous part being published as ‘Henry and June’, which explores her romantic relationships both with writer Henry Miller and his enigmatic wife...
by Sophie Wilson | Jul 25, 2020 | Book Recommendations, Book Review
‘But this is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s, and the poet will look upon their pain – the pain of women who have always been relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men, survivors of men, slaves of men – and he will tell it or he will tell...
