Books

In ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ we visit a small café in Tokyo, however, this café offers its customers the opportunity to travel back in time. We meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer. This novel is split into four chapters, one for each visitor wishing […]

‘Breasts and Eggs’ is Mieko Kawakami’s first full-length novel translated into English. The book is split into two parts. In part one we follow thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s twelve-year-old daughter, Midoriko. Natsu is a failing writer, Makiko is in search of breast enhancement surgery, and Midoriko has fallen into communicating only […]

The Flatshare is Beth O’Leary’s debut novel. It follows Tiffy and Leon, who share a one-bedroom flat; Leon occupies the flat while Tiffy’s at work during the day and Tiffy has the run of the place the rest of the time. Tiffy and Leon have never met. I had seen many people I follow on […]

I’m not quite sure where to start. My father runs this website, and this book is a little * spicy * so to speak. However, there is a reason I want to talk about this book, and why I read it in the first place. So, father, if this makes you uncomfortable, avert your eyes. […]

When I tell you, I feel like I’m 13 again, I mean it. When Stephanie Meyer announced that she was finally releasing Midnight Sun (Twilight from Edward’s perspective,) ten years after she announced she would never release it (due to that draft being leaked online) I screamed. Literally. I forced my entire flat to watch all […]

There are few ‘rock’ biographies I’d be interested to read, mainly because the author tends NOT to include the gritty, dirty, sex and drugs bits. Okay Motley Crue are an exception, but they couldn’t exactly get away with NOT telling the truth, likewise with Metal God, Rob Halford. However, he could have taken the easy […]

When people talk about or mention Breakfast at Tiffany’s they most likely think of the movie starring the legend that is Audrey Hepburn. I mean, who could forget the iconic opening scene in the black dress at pearls, eating a croissant outside of Tiffany’s. (Honestly, who could forget all of the iconic fashion in that […]

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short StoriesEdited by Jay Rubin.Penguin Random House UK | 2019 | £10.99The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a collection of multiple short stories written by various Japanese authors, such as Haruki Murakami, Mishima Yukio, Genji Keita etc.The cover I came across in my local Waterstones (which I hope […]

Yes, I will admit that I did watch the film before reading the book. Heck, I had never even heard of the book until I had seen the film, but I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with that. The film makes you feel like you’re sunbathing on a warm summer day on the shores […]

Lolita (1995) is Vladimir Nabokov’s most famous book, and is also, arguably, one of the most controversial pieces of literature throughout modern history. To summarise the plot of this novel the protagonist, Humbert Humbert, falls in love with 12-year-old Dolores Haze aka Lolita. The novel follows Humbert’s story about his love for Lolita and everything […]