Mother Mary Comes to Me
by Miraya McCoy
'Who would expect such straightforward homage from an iconoclast and self-confessed sceptic like Roy?'
Jennie Baptiste: Rhythm & Roots
by Michael McMillan
Baptiste’s photography captures how Black British youth culture transformed London’s sonic landscape on the cusp of the millennium
Othello
by Taíno Mendez
'We really must be living in strange times if we go to watch Othello for jokes. But perhaps laughter is the only way to deal with grief.'
The Catch
by Jade E. Bradford
Yrsa Daley-Ward deftly writes two unique voices and paints them both as unreliable narrators
The best books of 2025
by Franklin Nelson
Literary highlights of 2025, from Arundhati Roy's memoir Mother Mary Comes To Me to Sarah Howe's poetry collection Foretokens Flesh
Promised Sky
by Zebib K. Abraham
A textured, unassuming and heart-breaking story of immigrant women facing the rising forces of xenophobia and racism in Tunisia
Prisoner 951
by Sana Nassari
A quietly devastating miniseries based on the six-year ordeal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in the Iranian regime's prisons
Borderline Fiction
by Naomi Foyle
An immersive and innovative portrait of a young Black British man dealing with the complexity of his mental health condition
The Wickedest
by Magnus McDowall
Caleb Femi turns a party into a poetry collection where everyone is invited - so long as they remember to dance