"The Raw and the Cooked" opened with a promise: eleven contemporary artists channeling medieval tradition to interrogate our own age of spiritual uncertainty and political upheaval. It is ambitious, and unevenly, but not without reward, the result mostly delivers on it.

If you're in a reading slump and want something to pull you out of it, this is a strong pick. It's a closed-door romance with an enemies-to-lovers arc that actually earns the label (more on that later), set inside a fantasy’s political competition for an empire's throne. If soft, cute, low-heat romantic fantasy is your genre, this delivers.

Robin Dembroff’s new book is part feminist critique, part philosophical intervention, and part invitation to rethink the way we understand ourselves.

In honour of finishing my 430th book ever read, I am bringing you a recommendation today: Blood Drunk by Ben Shepherd, which comes out this month.

I think I may have just read one of the books that will become a classic of our century, up there with Sally Rooney, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Elena Ferrante.