Book of the Month: August

Caught by the River · Aug 17, 2026

Published last week by Canongate, August’s Book of the Month is Alycia Pirmohamed’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’. Winner of the 2023 Nan Shepherd Prize, the book sees its author trace the legacies of migration and memory on her life, examining the idea of homeland and the mythmaking it demands. Read an […]