My earliest reading memoryMemories from my childhood are opening up as I read to my own young children at the moment. Something in the pictures of Helen Cooper’s The Bear Under the Stairs or... Read more »
Clear by Carys Davies has won this year’s Ondaatje prize for writing that “best evokes the spirit of a place”. The Welsh novelist’s third novel is set on a Scottish island during... Read more »
In 2021, Jack Chadwick, a twenty-seven-year-old barman and part-time go-go dancer, was browsing the shelves of the Working Class Movement Library, outside Manchester, when he spied an arresting book cover. The hand-drawn... Read more »