I have said for quite a while now that I am growing tired of unreliable narrators. But Nathan Filer’s The Shock of the Fall was originally published in 2013 so I’m just going to sweep on past my initial judgement and crack on with the show. I do tend to spend most of my time reading manuscripts that are not yet books, they...

This book was everywhere last year. That’s probably why I haven’t read it until now, not that I’m trying to be hipster, it’s just that when an author or artist is quite literally blasted everywhere I tend to get a bit fed up. I usually wait and read (or in the case of music, listen to) something else and then when all the...

I’ve been meaning to read The Kite Runner for quite some time and having managed to skip channels whenever the film was on TV I successfully dodged spoilers. I must say it took me a while to get into the plot as I was so distracted by the setting of the novel and the beautiful descriptions of pre-occupied Kabul. In my lifetime, Kabul...

I've recently discovered UK-based artist Marija Tiurina who has illustrated Untranslatable Words and  Luftmensch is by far my number one. More artwork can be found: Behance: https://www.behance.net/tiurinam Tumblr: http://marijatiurina.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/marijatiurina ...