At the start of this week, I gave the first five of my top ten suggestions for great reads this year. Now here are the others… The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway ‘Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and...
Last spring, we took a look at the best books to read in 2020 – from sensation fiction classics such as Wilkie Collins’s The Woman In White to newer outings like Sally Rooney’s Bildungsroman, Normal People. A year on, we’re going to pick up where we left off and...
Have you ever forgotten a word you use every single day, and the more you try to think of it, the more it’s just out of your reach? Or forgotten the name of someone you know quite well, and for some reason that name seems to be hidden behind some sort of...
How To Encourage Children To Read Ahead of World Book Day (4th March), we’ve researched the nation’s favourite school books and found that George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are the UK’s most popular reads. For many people, reading is a...
This month, three of Earth’s countries will have exploration equipment arriving on Mars, or to its orbit. China, the United Arab Emirates and the USA have all sent rockets to the Red Planet to discover more of its mysteries. Mars has enthralled humanity for centuries,...
George Orwell died on the 21st January 1950. He forecast a world where governments controlled people’s lives completely, with his most famous warning given in the form of the dystopian novel 1984. So can we look around today and claim he was right? Or, does it remain...
