Category: Lit

  • UNTOLD TRUTHS OF FOREST GATE: Peter Akinti Interview

    UNTOLD TRUTHS OF FOREST GATE Peter Akinti Interview By Marsha Gosho Oakes The former Editor of quality London-based men’s magazine Untold, Peter Akinti has migrated to the nearby land of novels. His debut, Forest Gate, was published this Spring. “A profoundly affecting novel that forces the reader to connect, on a very personal level, with…

  • Love Me by Gemma Weekes [Book Review]

    Love Me is the debut novel by London based singer/poet Gemma Weekes. It chronicles the loves and battles of 20- something Eden Jean-Baptiste. Her life is marred by the twin torments of her obsession with the handsome, emotionally distant Zed and being abandoned at 11 years old by her capricious, self-centred mother Marie. Eden lives…

  • Book Review: Beyond Ugly – Constance Briscoe