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Just Keep Reading!

This blog post was written by second year English student, Jaya Prabhakar. During my final year of A-Levels, I mentioned to my English teacher that it would be fun to start a book club with my friends once, I was at university. I was, admittedly, confused when she rebuked my idea with a laugh, saying, …

A terrifyingly literal girl power tale: Naomi Alderman’s The Power

This blog post was written by first year English student, Polly Moss. Set in a world in which women gain the biological ability to release jolts of electricity through their hands and fingers, Naomi Alderman’s, ‘The Power’, portrays the potential consequences of a total social overhaul in which women become the dominant sex. First awoken …