Archive - Books + Bits

3 vintage celebrity interviews I love

Plus, a bit about my own experience writing profiles and my favourite celebrity writers

Apr 19 •

The rise and rise of tradwives

Also: a potted history of vulnerability and a long-read to make your jaw drop

Apr 16 •

Book Thoughts: The Lagos Wife by Vanessa Walters

If The Real Housewives of Lagos was a murder mystery

Apr 12 •

My British cinema jag

three homegrown movies I've watched in the last month and want to talk about

Apr 5 •

3 new novels to feast upon 🍴

la dolce niente!

Apr 3 •

March 2024

The Bee Sting: Spoiler Chat

By special request

Mar 29 •

Book Thoughts: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

I can't resist a family saga

Mar 29 •

Book Thoughts: The Secret of Cooking by Bee Wilson

If you loved Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking - or Nora Ephron's Heartburn - you'll love this

Mar 23 •

I fell down a Google hole

And learned all about the misery lit of the early 00s. Also: LiLo's new Netflix era and why I think she's in on the joke

Mar 20 •

Feat. lots of reccs from Stockholm

Mar 15 •

Shelf Request #11

Books to loan your teenager. (No Colleen Hoover in sight)

Mar 12 •

Balls, burners, the slipperiness of time

And has anyone else watched Mea Culpa? I am dying of laughter

Mar 5 •

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