Category: book club
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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: WATERCOLOUR FASHION ILLUSTRATION BY FRANCESCO LO IACONO (& GIVEAWAY)
Each month, our resident book club reviews a new must-read volume that will help to educate, inform, entertain, and thrill you. This issue, Rhiannon D’Averc gets stuck into the tutorials provided in fashion illustrator Francesco Lo Iacono’s new book – Watercolor Fashion Illustration: Step-by-step techniques for illustrating fashion and figures in watercolors. The first thing […]