Recs if you like The Mosquito Coast...

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

Every book that has been adapted into a movie covered by the Blank Check podcast

Fiction books my husband reads that I will also someday read and maybe you will too

One of Britain's oldest literary awards, alongside the Hawthornden Prize. The prize was founded in 1919 and is based at the University of Edinburgh.