In her debut novel, Beauty Tips for Girls, Margaret Montgomery satirises the beauty industry and the social pressures put on women in modern Western culture with wry humour. Montgomery illuminates some of the absurdities of popular culture through an interesting narrative style compiled of letters, newspaper and magazine excerpts, as well as the personal narratives Read More
Amy Mason’s The Other Ida, winner of the 2014 Dundee International Book Prize, is a story steeped both in the reckless reality and the dramatic imagination of its protagonist, Ida Irons. Turning thirty and entirely irresponsible, Ida is returning to a musty house by the sea that she never felt at home in, reuniting with Read More
Lynne Alexander’s debut novel The Sister is a fictionalised telling of the life of Alice James, the younger sister of two famous brothers: the writer, Henry James, and the philosopher, William James. An invalid with a condition that no doctor can seem to diagnose, Alice spends most of her life confined to bed, where she Read More