by VerveBooksBlog | Jan 28, 2026 | Uncategorised
In December 2016, roughly a month after Trump snatched power for the first time, I traveled to London to visit one of my very best friends. While there, almost every UK resident I met asked me a version of the question: How could you let this happen? At the time, I...
by VerveBooksBlog | Dec 18, 2025 | Uncategorised
We’ve got a list of book recs and films that will be keeping us company during the long winter break! Ellie’s guide: At the top of my Christmas wishlist this year are Malala Yousafzai’s new memoir, Finding My Way – which promises...
by VerveBooksBlog | Nov 20, 2025 | Uncategorised
It is the end of a long day. You have been working at a job you don’t like much but can’t leave because everything is dangerously expensive. You have trudged to the train station through the dark, through some puddles. At work in your breaks you checked the news and...
by VerveBooksBlog | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorised
When I wrote my first novel, Sunburn, I was keen to write a very queer, very Irish story. I never imagined that people from countries all over the world would relate to it. The push and pull of both loving and rejecting your home town; living in a quiet, conservative...
by VerveBooksBlog | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorised
This Halloween, VERVE authors are bringing you their scariest reads for the spooky season. Add these recs to your TBRs and prepare to be terrified. Zee Carlstrom Picks: TENDER IS THE FLESH by Agustina Bazterrica Let’s kick things off strong with an Argentinian novel...
