Category: book club
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BOOK CLUB: THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT BY CLARE POOLEY
Each month, our resident book club reviews a new must-read volume that will help to educate, inform, entertain, and thrill you. This issue, Hannah Whittaker reviews Clare Pooley’s fiction book, The Authenticity Project. This week Hannah Whittaker is looking at the 2021 novel The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley, her first fictional novel to be released.…
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BOOK CLUB: HOMEGOING BY YAA GYASI
Each month, our resident book club reviews a new must-read volume that will help to educate, inform, entertain, and thrill you. This week, Kwabena Gyane reviews Ghanaian-American Yaa Gyasi’s 2016 debut novel, Homegoing. “…we have a saying about separated sisters. They are like a woman and her reflection, doomed to stay on opposite sides of the…
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BOOK CLUB: THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING BY JOAN DIDION
Each month, our resident book club reviews a new must-read volume that will help to educate, inform, entertain, and thrill you. This issue, Hannah Whittaker reads The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. This week I looked at the influential writing from Joan Didion, an American writer who sadly passed away late last year. Her novel,…
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BOOK CLUB: MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION BY OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
When life becomes overwhelming, whether it be from work, University, or just general life, I find that there’s nothing better for the soul than to pick up a good book. A good book ultimately comes down to personal preference. A novel that I may recommend as five stars may not appeal to you one bit,…
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BOOK CLUB: OF WOMEN AND SALT BY GABRIELA GARCIA
This week Hannah Whittaker is looking at the historical fiction novel Of Women and Salt by American writer, poet, and journalist, Gabriela Garcia. I truly think that certain works of historical fiction are hugely underrated by readers. Although being fictional, these historical novels will often draw upon major events from the past when developing their stories. History…
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BOOK CLUB: FAILOSOPHY: A HANDBOOK FOR WHEN THINGS GO WRONG BY ELIZABETH DAY
This week Hannah Whittaker is looking at Failosophy: a handbook for when things go wrong, by award-winning journalist and author Elizabeth Day. When January 2022 briskly arrived, I once again decided to jot down some of my reading goals for the year. My reading patterns consist largely of fiction novels, so, this year, I decided…
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BOOK CLUB: ANXIOUS PEOPLE BY FREDRIK BACKMAN
This week Hannah Whittaker is looking at 2019 novel Anxious People from the bestselling Swedish author Fredrik Backman. I would be lying if I didn’t say the reason I picked up this book in Waterstone’s was because I too am an anxious person. In this instance, I think my actions reflected how much power a…
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BOOK CLUB: BEWILDERMENT BY RICHARD POWERS
This week Hannah Whittaker is looking at the extraordinary new release Bewilderment by the multi-award-winning American novelist Richard Powers. As the world has continued to readjust from the effects of COVID-19 we have been inundated with amazing novels from some incredible authors who, luckily for us readers, spent their quarantine time writing some absolute masterpieces.…
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Book Club: Mary Beard’s Woman & Power
Each issue, London Runway’s very own Book Club discusses their favourite book of the month. For our fourth recommendation, Cara Balen reviews Mary Beard’s Woman & Power: A Manifesto. Do you feel like you need a little bit of feminist wisdom in your life? Or do you like ancient mythology and would like to find…
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Book Club It’s Not Ok To Feel Blue and other lies
Each issue, London Runway’s very own Book Club discusses their favourite book of the month. With 2020 coming to an end, Darcey Sergison reviews the inspirational collection of stories curated by Scarlett Curtis in It’s Not Ok To Feel Blue and other lies. While 2020 has not been the ideal start to our Roaring 20s,…
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BOOK CLUB: Locking Up Our Own BY JAMES FORMAN
Each month, our resident book club reviews a new must-read volume that will help to educate, inform, entertain, and thrill you. This issue, Darcey Sergison starts the first installment of our new monthly feature by reviewing James Forman’s non-fiction book, Locking Up Our Own. Locking Up Our Own is a captivating read about crime and…