The Dangers of Genre-lisation
Within a week, the television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People, which explores the oeuvre of two teenage lovers, was requested on BBC...
A Hiatus for Fantasy?
Current twenty-year olds grew up watching adaptations of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth adventures on the Big Screen, reading Rowling’s Hogwarts shenanigans and dreaming of getting lost in Lewis’ Narnia.
Reality check: the power of relatable crises
"Conflicts in literature don’t work when they fail to resonate".
Regardless of genre, books are most impactful when their crises are rooted in everyday human experience.
‘The worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen’
'Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow' offers an unconventional take on the 'Chosen One' genre
