Breakfast at Tiffany’s, published in 1958, is a story of an unnamed narrator’s encounter with the untamed, beautiful and heart-breaking Holly Golightly, who throughout the story is trying to find herself a place to belong. It is not a romantic story, and Holly does not find her home with the narrator, whom she calls Fred after her beloved brother (evidencing their platonic – but I think a little idolising, on his side, relationship) as she frequently states that she does not want to ‘belong’ to anyone. I don’t really think that by the end of the story she has found a home in the normal sense of the word, but maybe that state of change and movement is her real home – her very elusiveness is what makes her grounded.

On International Women’s Day this year, Netflix graced our screens with a brand-new film ‘Damsel,’ featuring Millie Bobby Brown, ostensibly a film of feminist subversion and empowerment for young women. The movie follows the story of Princess Elodie, set in some suitably vague Ye Olde Kingdom, who is married off to a prince, before the revelation that the marriage is a sham, set up so Elodie can be part of a ritualistic sacrificial pact with a dragon that terrifies the kingdom.

‘Portugal’s four greatest poets from the twentieth century were Fernando Pessoa’, writes Richard Zenith. At first glance this seems absurd and confusing, but Pessoa’s work breaks the boundaries of identity and personhood as he adopts a plethora of personae and writes not only for himself but for hundreds of voices. A man whose very name means ‘person’, Pessoa is anything but. He is an

Full disclosure – I write this review as a huge Hunger Games fan. In fact, when I heard a film was being made of the Hunger Games prequel, my Year 8 self practically exploded with excitement. Another disclosure – I am forever and always ‘The Books were better’ – I shall try and refrain from using this exact phrase repeatedly throughout the course of this review, but truthfully, I doubt I will manage more than a sentence.

Last week, as part of the Sixth Form’s celebration of Black History Month, I had the pleasure of being able to interview Timowa Owolade about his debut book, ‘This is Not America’ – a study of race relations in Britain and the USA. More specifically, he examines the differences of the two nations, considering whether framing British discussion about relations through an American lens can be useful: his conclusion – they can’t.