Taylor Swift is back on tour for the first time in FIVE YEARS. The content I’ve been seeing online for The Eras Tour over the last few...

Oscar Wilde’s short children’s tale The Happy Prince was published in 1888. I’ve briefly touched on the short story and my love for the...

Whilst I love figurative and descriptive language, my favourite writers (Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde) tend to stray from excessive...

My poems are always inspired by something, be that a song, plot or character, for instance, Taylor Swift's song 'Champagne Problems'...

In the opening chapter of Moby-Dick, Ishmael speaks of the ‘mystical vibration’ one undergoes when land is no longer in sight. Ishmael’s...

I get asked frequently what my favourite part of reading is. It’s definitely the escapism it has to offer; having an imaginary world to...

It’s World Book Day this Friday! This day comes and passes almost as seamlessly as Valentine’s Day, though I do appreciate how the latter...

I talk about this kind of stuff on Instagram, too. Follow me there! In October 2022 Taylor Swift released Midnights, a record that...

It’s February! Things are slightly less depressing now. Daffodils are beginning to bloom. It’s not pitch black at 5 o’clock anymore. Yes,...

The concept of meeting someone for the first time is over-romanticised. I’m not saying you can’t bump into your future spouse one day in...

*the page numbers throughout this article refer to my copy of The Complete Works of George Orwell* In The Journal of Aesthetic Education,...

A lot of people have told me they suffer from post-festival blues. My automatic response to this is that I suffer from post-Christmas...

I separate the news of the last few years into three categories: the war in Ukraine, the pandemic and the Royal Family. Harry and...

Hi everyone - Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas break and that you got some time to recharge. I booked off the 21st,...

I can’t quite believe I’ve been writing to you all for nearly six months now. From a young age, I have wished on shooting stars and...

One week to go until the big day! And two more working days for me until I get a week off *sighs in relief*. My gift guide blog post has...

Anyone close to me will tell you that Love Actually is my all-time favourite film, and Hugh Grant’s monologue at the beginning is one of...

One of my favourite literary quotations regarding Christmas is from Roy L. Smith, who writes that “he who has not Christmas in his heart...

The Harry Potter series provided me with some much-needed escapism and comfort during my beginning school years. I was intensely teased...

I debated whether or not to write this post because part 1 took FOREVER to complete. As in, I worked on it for about three weeks at every...