Aesthetic vs. cost – the true price of hardback books

Jane Rance explores why people continue to buy hardback books in a cost of living crisis.

Nature as a road to recovery – Nora Fingscheidt’s ‘The Outrun’

Jane Rance reviews Nora Fingscheidt’s new film The Outrun, examining its themes of nature, recovery, and community.

The forgotten women of Arthurian legend

Five books to read on the beach

The world of Tove Jansson’s Moomins

Thomas Hardy: bridging the gap between Victorian and modern literature

‘Soul’s therapy’: the confessional poets and mental health

The phenomenon of #BookTok

Dissolving the boundaries of friendship: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

The controversial message of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead