Alice Thomas

People have many reasons for reading – pure escapism from life, expansion of your worldview, or perhaps even to scare the pants off yourself. Writers have just as many reasons for writing, whether their words equal fact or fantasy. Our…

Alas, the trees outside my house are beginning to turn yellow – summer may be coming to an end, but the crop of glorious new releases is still blooming. From the flowers about to burst I have picked eight of the brightest. We’ve seen some…

The government is spying on us, big companies too. Perhaps they’re linked. Perhaps they’re secretly controlling our whole lives.This news is not new. By now most of us have accepted this as a fact – there are memes about it, and…

I know, I know. Any film adaptation of a book is sure to disappoint someone. It’s an entirely different medium of storytelling after all. This does not mean I won’t be overly critical, especially if it’s a book I truly love, but I do at…

Oh the weather outside is frightful(ly hot), but the bookshops are so delightful. August is just a few days away, bringing with it a plethora of stunning new releases.Adventures await you, with award-winning storytelling, thrillers so…

The longlist for the Man Booker Prize 2018 was announced on Monday. This final cut has revealed a strange juxtaposition of brave new voices along with a narrow viewing of the world’s current issues. In 2014, the prize was opened up to…

There are some truly spectacular new book releases this July. Fans of every genre will find something great to obsess over. It was my horrendous duty to attempt to condense these titles down to the absolute must-haves. I urge you to go out…

The Surface Breaks is a beguiling retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid by Louise O’Neill.This time, her name is Gaia, and through her eyes we are dropped into the underwater kingdom of the merfolk. In this…