Articles
Reading lists
Best books of 2025: A preview of the year’s most exciting reads
A new year is an opportunity for a clean slate – and, perhaps more importantly, a good excuse to restock your TBR pile with some shiny new additions. Perhaps this will be the year you make a significant dent in your list of must-read classics, or maybe you’re keeping an eye out for the next […]
Extracts
Extract: Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan
From the Polari Prize winning author of Bellies, Disappoint Me is a voice-driven, funny and poignant exploration of millennial angst, race, trans panic, and the allure of bougie domesticity. It’s four a.m. and the house party hasn’t thinned. New Year’s! Everyone wants to go to a party, but nobody wants to host a party, and […]
Extract: We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
There is a framed photograph on Lila’s bedside table that she hasn’t yet had the energy, or perhaps the inclination, to get rid of. Four faces squished together in front of an enormous aquarium in some foreign holiday attraction – she forgets where now – a shoal of enormous iridescent stripy fish gazing blankly from […]
Extract: The Fisherman’s Gift by Julia Kelly
Prologue: Scotland, 1900 Joseph knows the storm is coming. He sees the yellow glow of the halo around the moon and the ice-glitter of the winter sky when he comes up from the beach, pausing every now and then to give his knees rest from their groan and creak. Later, the wind shifts, swinging from […]
Interviews
Features
How to find and follow your dream in 2025
Are you just starting out in life? Eager to find a path that will deliver genuine fulfilment? Or maybe you’ve spent decades doing what you always felt you ‘should’ do but have a burning sense that life has more to offer. Simon Squibb, the entrepreneur, TikTok giant, founder of online business support network Helpbnk.com and […]
