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Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The first night of the London Literature Festival is opened by Sayaka Murata, interviewed by Octavia Bright. Sayaka Murata is a new-generation Japanese writer, celebrating the translation of her speculative fiction novel ‘Vanishing World’ into English. She has sold over two million copies of her books in over forty countries; famous for challenging family, romance and societal conventions in her blunt, defiant writing.  Her book ‘Vanishing

Photo by Artemis McMaster-Christie Gorgeous and raw, The Use of Photography , by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, and the once obscure...

The state of not knowing is one of eternal limbo. To be born into a world beyond human understanding, caught delicately between a...

“ We love words .” When preparing for my interview with Ted Hodgkinson, head of literature and spoken word at the Southbank Centre, I...

The sound of Ahmed Adnan’s oud warmed the brutalist walls of the Barbican’s Cinema 1 as Comma Press presented Voices of Resilience....

Released in 1987, like a caged bird freed from the silencing of Americas Post-Colonial slave trade, Toni Morrison’s third novel ‘Beloved’...

I have just read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential for the first time and it’s like nothing I have read before. Perhaps a similar...

Last week, the King’s World Literature Society kicked off their first book club of the year with an introduction to The Little Prince ,...

Although Sally Rooney’s hit novel ‘Normal People’ was released in 2018, it has had a slight renaissance in the past couple years in the...

Image courtesy of Ian Schneider via Unsplash (licensed under Unsplash License) It's the most wonderful time of the year, as I'm sure the...