Forgotten Gems

In these dark essay-writing and intensely depressing times, where each and every one of us feels like throwing ourselves into Highfields Lake, we need good old-fashioned, extremely wacky reading material. And Belly Up!, billed as a magazine for dolphins who think they are human, does not disappoint. Impact Arts’ Anna investigates.  I...

Anna Karenina is one of those undeniable classics that people tend to claim they’ve read, or have on their shelves to look a little more intellectual; in fact, it’s been on my own bookshelf for years before I finally picked it up this summer. Originally published in instalments in...

When the Twilight series finally came to an end, and people started to grow tired of the vampire/werewolf fascination that took over young adult novels, a new genre in the YA market emerged as its successor: the dystopian novel. With so many new titles appearing on shelves over the...

With so many books being published every year, it is so easy to forget about publications from a few decades ago. This is exactly the case with this book! With adverts bombarding us with information about recently published books – think Me Before You by Jojo Moyes – it’s no wonder...

We’re all familiar with the literary canon, thought to be the realm of dead white men. But when we are always told that the classic love story is Jane Eyre and the quintessential horror is Dracula, we feel like we might be missing something. In this series, we uncover some...