Coronation hears of the murders before she even reaches the slave port of Bristol – six boys found with their throats slit. Horrified, she questions the locals’ readiness to blame the killings on Red John, a travelling man few have actually seen. Coronation yearns to know more about the mystery. But first she has to…
Bite-Sized Book Talk: ‘Wilder Girls’ by Rory Power
It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest…
The National WWII Museum: How to Bring History into the Present
When I was travelling around the United States this summer, I saw so many museums and galleries in so many different cities that I think I could become an attractions review page. However, as the exhibits and portraits and artefacts of many of these locations blur into one in my mind, there is one museum…
Reading Round-Up: July 2019
July has been my most productive reading month in… well, about four years if I’m being honest. For the first time since 2015, I managed to read on five consecutive days, and even posted a book review for the first time since 2016 (read it here). To celebrate this very rare step forward, I wanted…
Book Talk: ‘Last Chance to See…’ by Douglas Adams with Mark Carwardine
In “The Hitchhiker’s Trilogy” and the bestselling “Dirk Gently” novels, Douglas Adams has taken his millions of fans on wild excursions through time and space. Last Chance to See continues the trip–but this time the place is Earth, the date is today, and every word is true. By turns a poignant and hilarious look at…
Making Space for Self-Care
I’m a very highly-strung perfectionist, if you didn’t already know. What this means for me is that I will set the bar almost unattainably high for myself and then get worked up about the slightest possibility of failing to reach it. Over the past year, I have started feeling this catch up to me. In…
Perusals from the Botanical Gardens #5 – Talking Mental Health and Studying Abroad for Mental Health Awareness Week
This week (13-19 May) in the UK, it is Mental Health Awareness Week. Hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, the campaign selects a theme – this year, body image – and encourages conversation to dispel the stigmas around mental health, trying to help the community reach out and support each other. If you are interested…
The Catch-22 of Employment and Postgraduate Studies as a Humanities Undergraduate
I think it’s fair to say that most young people fear for their future. With the job market filled to the brim with qualified applicants and the housing market as expensive as ever (especially where I am from), the prospect of graduating from university is a terrifying one. And rather than be helpful or give…
Perusals From the Spring Break Gardens #4 – What Loneliness Taught Me About Independence
Spring break: we look forward to it for a reason, and not just because we’re lazy. If you’re like me, sick of your current area and want to see somewhere new away from bitchy housemates and stacks of unorganised notes from the quarter already passed, then spring break presents the perfect opportunity to do so….
Playing with Fyre: Netflix’s Fyre vs Hulu’s Fyre Fraud
With both its rise and demise played out moment-by-moment on the internet, the catastrophic failure that was the ‘inaugural’ Fyre Festival of 2017 and its creator Billy McFarland’s subsequent imprisonment under fraud charges had a lot of social media on tenterhooks. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that the two distributors lining up to showcase documentaries…
