Books
Little escapades that transport your mind to another realm
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: The Final Book from Stephen Hawking
Hawking’s final book turns late‑night existential dread into sharp, witty cosmology, proving the universe is confusing—but never boring.
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
A hilarious, hungover love letter to friendship, heartbreak and growing up messy. Dolly Alderton makes millennial chaos feel strangely comforting.
Just As I Am: A Memoir
A candid recollection of the legendary actress's remarkable life, a powerful, witty, and deeply human story of Black womanhood, fame, faith, and resilience.
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Part scientific biography, part existential detective story, Why Fish Don’t Exist traces David Starr Jordan’s rise from star ichthyologist to chilling eugenicist.
11 Books to Read for a Cosy Christmas
As the year draws to an end and winter closes in, curling up with a good book under a plaid throw is a beautiful way to soak up the comfort and magic of December.
The Maidens
A moody Cambridge campus, a secret society, and therapy gone feral: The Maidens is dark academia with bite, even if its final twist wobbles.
The Silent Patient: A Novel
A famous painter kills her husband, then never speaks again. The Silent Patient turns that eerie silence into a dark, twisty psychological obsession.
The Girls in the Stilt House
Steamy swamps, buried secrets and two girls clinging to each other in a hostile world—this haunting Southern tale left me beautifully uneasy.
10 Books to Read for a Spooky Halloween
What better way to get into the chilling spirit than delving into a scary story?
Many Lives, Many Masters
A psychiatrist, a patient and a few alleged past lives walk into a therapy room. Many Lives, Many Masters is bizarre, comforting and oddly convincing.
How to Do the Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
A brutally gentle guide to trauma, patterns, and why “that’s just how I am” might be a lie you’ve lovingly told yourself for years.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Covey’s classic isn’t just productivity porn; it’s a grown-up guide to values, habits and leadership that still hits uncomfortably close to home.
Circe: A Feminist Recasting of Greek Myth
Madeline Miller’s Circe gives a sidelined witch the spotlight, turning Greek myth into a slow-burning, feminist gut punch wrapped in lush, lyrical prose.
The Song of Achilles
A tender, tragic queer retelling of Achilles and Patroclus that trades dusty heroics for intimacy, heartbreak and a quietly devastating kind of glory.
News of the World: A Novel
A wandering newsreader, a furious Kiowa-raised girl, and a dusty Texas road trip that broke my heart in the quietest possible way.
The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
A glossy fable of 5 am miracles, mansplaining and morning routines. I cherry-pick the gold, roll my eyes at the fluff, and decide if it’s worth your dawn.
The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon
A buzzy business book on Bezos that feels more like a well-annotated textbook than a backstage pass. Insightful, but I’ll stick to the original letters.
After I Do: A Novel
A brutally honest, quietly tender look at what happens when the butterflies leave, the bills arrive, and love has to grow up or give up.
We Are All the Same in the Dark: A Novel
A missing girl, a one‑legged cop and a town built on secrets—this haunting Texas thriller quietly moved into my head and refused to leave.
To Kill A Mockingbird: A Quiet Classic That Still Stings
I arrived in Maycomb scandalously late, but To Kill a Mockingbird still hit like a quiet thunderclap—slow-burning, sharp-eyed and quietly devastating.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
The man who never reads lives only one.”
— George R.R. Martin