3+ hour, 4+ min ago   (331+ words) Why Roald Dahl’s Stories Were Always Darker Than We Remember (Picture Credit - Rex Features) Childhood, in Dahl's fiction, is rarely sentimental. Children inhabit a world organised by adults, whose rules they cannot always challenge. Dahl once suggested that adults should…...

15+ hour, 4+ min ago   (332+ words) 6 Books To Help You Keep Your Cool Under Pressure (Picture Credit - Amazon) Goldsmith examines the environmental and psychological cues that derail behaviour, often before we realise what is happening. His central argument is useful: people frequently underestimate how strongly situations…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (361+ words) Meet The Author Who Gives Greek Mythology Its Teeth Back (Picture Credit - Karen Robinson) Ancient myths have a strange way of becoming harmless through repetition. We know who Medusa is, who fought at Troy, who sailed for the Golden Fleece....

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (197+ words) Normal people by sally rooney (Credits: Pinterest) This is the curious power of any book to film adaptation. Sometimes the story leaves the bookshelves only to return years later and sometimes only through the screen do people get to know…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (104+ words) Times Now The Forgotten Novel That Saw The End Of Privacy Coming (Picture Credit - Pinterest) Also Read:The Forgotten Bestseller That Predicted the Internet’s Dark Side One of Eggers's most prescient inventions is SeeChange, a network of tiny cameras that…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (294+ words) Are We Still Reading If AI Reads The Book For Us (Picture Credit - iStock) It sounds enormously useful. It also raises a question publishing has barely begun to answer: if AI increasingly mediates our relationship with books, what exactly are…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (410+ words) The Forgotten 1995 Novel BookTok Turned Into A Bestseller (Picture Credit - Amazon) Most novels receive one chance to find their audience. Jacqueline Harpman’s 'I Who Have Never Known Men' has done something far stranger. Published in French in 1995, the bleak Belgian…...

4+ day, 4+ min ago   (332+ words) Why Comfort Books Feel More Powerful When Life Becomes Uncertain (Picture Credit - Pinterest) The ending is already known. The characters cannot surprise us anymore. Even the sentences may feel familiar. Yet when life becomes exhausting or unpredictable, a book we…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (104+ words) A Thousand Splendid Suns Found In Satya Niketan Rubble Becomes a Haunting Symbol of Interrupted Lives (Picture Credit - Pinterest) A Thousand Splendid Suns (Picture Credit - Pinterest) Published in 2007, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' follows Mariam and Laila, two Afghan women from…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (235+ words) The Love Hypothesis Has A Fan Fiction Origin Story Stranger Than Its Romance (Picture Credit - Amazon) A romance between a PhD candidate and a forbidding professor is about to complete one of contemporary publishing’s strangest journeys. When 'The Love Hypothesis…...