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Giada Scodellaro’s Debut Novel Is a Poetic Reflection on Womanhood

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By Jemima Skala 
| AnOther Magazine
Lead ImageGiada Scodellaro The writing in Giada Scodellaro’s debut novel Ruins, Child is difficult to define and grasp onto. Like the comma in its title, the novel is constantly spliced, refracted: a group of people are crowding around to watch the same film they always watch, a film of themselves and their elders; now the beauty of crumbling buildings is being assessed by a floating, undefined voice; now we’re hearing about Stevie Wonder’s The Secret Life of Plants.
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This new novel unpacks the highs and lows of limerence

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By Jemima Skala 
| Dazed Magazine
We spoke to author and translator Polly Barton about her debut novel, What Am I, A Deer?, a powerful story about an all-consuming crush Opening the pages of Polly Barton’s debut novel, What Am I, A Deer?, you’re greeted with a breathlessly recounted anecdote of the narrator performing Céline Dion at a school show in a gold satin nightie. With both immediacy and the cooler reflections of hindsight, Barton sets a tone that is confessional and clinical, dissecting and shameless.
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This new book brings Britain’s folk history out of the shadows

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By Jemima Skala 
| Dazed Magazine
Though English folk culture and customs have long fascinated Zakia Sewell, her book Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain is being published at an eerily prescient time. When a rash of St George’s flags spread across the country in 2025 as a confused and confusing symbol of national pride, it was clear what the flag-defenders’ vision of Britain was: white, anti-immigrant, fuelled by far-right racist narratives.
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