Some phrases coined by George Orwell in 1984 are so well-known today that I had a familiar feeling when finally, I started reading this novel.
There are several forces at work in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, forces opposing one another or complementing each other, which makes of Virginia Woolf’s most popular
Spoiler alert: I’ll assume that I’m among the last people on Earth to read Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, and that everyone is aware of the
Ali Smith wrote Girl Meets Boy more than ten years ago, in 2007, and it was my first introduction to her writing, again thanks to Canongate
“Nobody eavesdrops an old lady chatter. To them it’s all one buzzing noise. They think we’re discussing our knee pain and funeral plans.” This remark,
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I think it is a secret for no one here that I love Zadie Smith. I admire her wit, her style, her sense of humour,
One has to brace oneself before reading The Underground Railroad. Like all books on slavery, this novel painfully recreates the worst acts of violence committed by
In the midst of a heat wave, during the summer 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony secretly witnesses a scene involving her older sister Cecilia, their childhood friend, Robbie,