Typically seen reading speculative fiction, horror, modern classics and the occasional non- fiction – normally a social science topic/essays. Lover of anything inspired by folklore, the sea, history and the apocalypse.

Favourite books:

• Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Just Kids by Patti Smith

Recently read:

• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
• The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Currently reading:

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Likes to read darker contemporary fiction with troubled characters or for non-fiction: art and life focused essays/journals. Wants to feel something.

Favourite books:

• My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman
• The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson
• Index Cards by Moyra Davey
• Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
• Everybody by Olivia Laing

Recently enjoyed:

• The Last Sane Woman by Hannah Regel
• Feeding the Monster by Anna Bogutskaya
• Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Currently reading:

• Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector

You are what you read.

Favourite books:

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake
• The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
• Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
• Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
• Raymond Carver (all)

Recently read:

• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
• The Hooligan Nights by Clarence Rook
• Fremder by Russell Hoban
• Kentucky Ham by William S. Burroughs Jr

Currently reading:

Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano

Appreciates a variety of fiction, history and nature writing. Currently enjoys genre-hopping and exploring new & popular titles. 

Favourite books:

• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel 
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Recently enjoyed:

• Isaac and The Egg by Bobby Palmer
• The Bone Chests by Cat Jarman 
• Maurice by E. M. Forster
• The Gardening Book by Monty Don
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel 
• Why Women Grow by Alice Vincent 
• Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead 

Currently reading:

• One Day by David Nicholls
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 

Typically reads a fantasy or a thriller with a particular love of dark academia & anything with gothic/witchy vibes... Not a fan of romanatasy.

• 5 favourite books:
• The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
• The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
• The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
• Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

Recently loved:

• Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
• The Wonder State by Sara Flannery Murphy
• Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
• Shadowstitch by Cari Thomas

Currently reading:

The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence

Experimental/small-press fiction and critical theory. Currently doing a PhD on computer and internet history, so a lot of my non-fiction reading is geared towards this. If it's difficult or gossipy, I'm interested.

Favourite books:

• God Jr. by Dennis Cooper
• The Pepsi Cola Addict by June-Alison Gibbons
• The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
• Lucinella by Lore Segal
• Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker

Recently loved:

• Bark by Georges Didi-Huberman
• A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
• The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek
• The Observable Universe by Heather McCalden
• Transmission by Hari Kunzru

Currently reading:

• Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva
• The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams

Reads an endless array of contemporary fiction, fantasy, graphic novels and romance, with a particular fondness for magical realism and cosy character-centric stories.

Favourite books:

• Where Rainbows End by Cecilia Ahern
• The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
• Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

Recently loved:

• Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
• The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

Currently reading:

A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall

Love books in which terrible things happen at sea.

Favourite books:

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• The Wager by David Grann
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Recently loved:

• James by Percival Everett
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann
• Under the Skin by Michel Faber
• Strangers by Taichi Yamada
• Roadside Picnic by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky

Currently reading:

The Terror by Dan Simmons