Books are lovely to look at. They make the perfect addition to any room and have filled the Zoom backgrounds of important people during television appearances during the pandemic.

Aside from being an inanimate object symbolising wonder and curiosity, they have provided many of us with comfort throughout this challenging…

Everyone is talking about Adele. Whether it's glorifying her weight loss or the highly anticipated release of her new album, 30. The highly successful British artist has recently gained even more attention due to her recent battle with Spotify — the music streaming platform.

Adele, ahead of her latest release…

I had a birthday a fair few months ago, and it feels slightly late to write this. However, I've had some time to reflect on what I've learned in the twenty-four years that I have been alive.

It's a cliche to want to avoid ageing or growing up. But, if…

I have a confession to make. Reading fiction used to make me feel guilty. Every time I picked up my latest novel, afterwards, I’d reflect on all the tasks I could have been doing instead. …

There’s an elephant in the room. People are complaining about a *certain* platform being dead. People are also worried because the most *successful* people are leaving. People are starting to jump ship, and everywhere I turn, doomsday for writers of this platform is being predicted.

I've seen plenty of this…

I studied history at an academic level for three years. But during that time, I never learnt a lot about Soviet Russia. In the years that followed my degree, I could barely stomach the energy to even look at a history book, let alone pick one up.

It wasn't because…

There’s no way around it. At some point or another, you’ll be lucky enough to stumble across a book that stays with you forever. Long after you finish the final pages, it will cling to you in ways you didn’t think was possible. …

We're likely paid the bare minimum and work most weekends — but people who work in customer service are often treated like rubbish. Being able to clock out, go home and leave our work behind after we've finished for the day may be one of the benefits of the job…