Open Water
It is probably the most touching and authentic love story I have read in a long time. Open Water is the debut novel by British-Ghanian writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson.
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5 Books for Foodies
Food writing is a diverse genre that explores food-related topics and goes far beyond recipes and cooking techniques. In literary works, food can, for example, be used as a metaphor, a thematic element, to explore identities or relationships. In this listicle we recommend 5 great books for foodies, including food fiction and food memoirs. We promise that these books will make you hungry.
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5 books set in London
London is a favourite setting in literature: a lot has happened there historically, it is a cultural stronghold and numerous social problems can be discussed. Here are 5 excellent London novels to prove it.
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Antichristie
I rarely voluntarily choose to read stories about time travel, even though when done well they not only create narrative potential, but also orchestrate and scrutinize connections between the past and present. And this is exactly what Sanyal accomplishes with Antichristie.
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Life isn’t All Haha Heehee
Meera Syal’s Life isn’t All Haha Heehee follows the lives of three best friends who grew up together in the Punjabi community of East London.
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Small Bodies of Water
In her collection of essays, we move with Powles between London, where she currently lives, Shanghai, China and Aotearoa-New Zealand. She talks about growing up in Wellington with the constant fear of a major earthquake, how she prepares her own tofu during the coronavirus lockdown, and her connection to the kōwhai tree.
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Grand Union
Whenever I read Zadie Smith, I think you can’t not like her. Her prose is elegant, funny and so damn clever.
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Woman, Eating
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda highlights just how monstrous the human world that the vampire inhabits can truly be. It’s also a food lover’s delight that gives us a peek into the complicated identities that can inhabit individual bodies and how time and history can affect them, but it’s not intimidating.
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Mr. Loverman
Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr. Loverman is the perfect book for fans of the series Grace and Frankie. It’s the story of an older gay couple in love, a rollercoaster ride of emotions between secrecy and coming out, lightened up by extremely funny characters.
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Maame
Jessica George’s debut novel Maame has the air of being the well-behaved little sister to Candice Carty-Williams Queenie. Like Queenie, Maddie, the protagonist, goes through crises and explores her sexuality, but she is – perhaps because of the Christian upbringing in her Ghanaian family home – far less reckless.
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