One of the beautiful aspects of learning is that it never stops. No matter how old you are, there’s always something new to discover. Interestingly, this is also true for things that you thought you knew. Our knowledge is constantly evolving, and occasionally this...
Whenever I read a new novel, I always ask myself 3 questions that helps me synthesise and pick up the key points in the book. This is called active reading, which means that I am actively trying to summarise and memorise what the book is trying to teach me. Active...
Imagine scrolling through Facebook or Twitter and finding a news article that talks about how your favourite company is about to be bought by their biggest rival. You are surprised, shocked and quickly share the article to your friends and family. You quickly message...
At the start of this week, I gave the first five of my top ten suggestions for great reads this year. Now here are the others… The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway ‘Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and...
Last spring, we took a look at the best books to read in 2020 – from sensation fiction classics such as Wilkie Collins’s The Woman In White to newer outings like Sally Rooney’s Bildungsroman, Normal People. A year on, we’re going to pick up where we left off and...
Perhaps the most infamous witch hunt in history is that which consumed the American town of Salem, Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. An all-consuming spate of mass-hysteria, it was sparked by the accusation of a single enslaved woman, named Tituba. Her...
