Film and TV composer Isobel Waller-Bridge steps into the avant-garde with this solo project, which is as much concerned with stillness and quiet as it is with music. In ‘Objects’, background noise is brought into focus, with the musical elements feeling l…

How do you make ordinary life sound interesting? That’s a question that the author of ‘Walking on the Ceiling’ and ‘White on White’, Ayşegül Savaş, beautifully answers in ‘The Anthropologists’, a novel about married couple Asya and Manu navigating love, f…

The premise of John Tottenham’s debut novel, ‘Service’, is ironic. It’s about Sean, a failed writer and self-proclaimed misanthrope who works in a bookstore, surrounded by customers and the work of successful writers. For Sean, everything is moving on wit…