Holly Pester News Today

A DEBUT Colchester novelist will be making her first local public talk at the historic St Leonards at the Hythe church next week.

This darkly comic novel brings wit and invention to a story of rented rooms

Manya Wilkinson, Holly Pester and Elisa Shua Dusapin will all be appearing at the bookshop

From Hunger Games-style viewings to greedy landlords and grim flatshares, young people aren’t just coping with a broken property market, they are writing about it

A disorienting tale of flatmates and precarious housing arrangements comes with a hard political truth in this stylish debut novel

Mae and Ari meet at the sticky end of a tequila-blasted night out. She is gay, confident and flits merrily from one affair to the next; his sexual preference is harder to pin down.

‘In our Senior year, we were prepared for our journey into adulthood by a class on ethics taught by an ancient nun.’

With mould in a video game and a death metal score satirising a luxury housing ad, artists, musicians and writers are expressing the feelings of generation rent

Memoirs from Neneh Cherry and Rebel Wilson, Colm Tóibín’s sequel to Brooklyn and a departure for Ali Smith – the biggest fiction and nonfiction for the year ahead

Our ten most popular poetry posts from 2021.