With winter at its height, there are many rainy days ahead of us, and to relieve us all of hours of doomscrolling, here are 3 book recommendations exploring themes of life and death. Comemadre by Roque Larraquy, No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, and Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin can be read in one day and I deem to be a 4 or 5-star read.   Let’s all take a break from our usual consumerism habits and endless scrolling. Reading is so much more worth your t

Sophie Rose Jenkins Balls in St Andrews are a perfect representation of the bewildering nature of The Bubble – amongst hundreds of people crammed on a dance floor, you will still bump into everyone you know. But back in November, we were enchanted out of the winter drizzle and down an even wilder rabbit hole into the curiouser and curiouser world of Wonderland for the Mermaids Christmas Ball.    Six impossible things hanging from the rafters in the Forest and Gardens. Photo c

When I told my friends from home that I was going to university in a tiny Scottish town, their reactions ranged from disbelief to mild horror. Why would anyone, they asked, choose to spend three years trapped in a bubble where daylight barely breaks through the clouds and the temperature never reaches double digits? To them, St Andrews sounded less like a university and more like a remote outpost, picturesque, maybe, but surely dull. The most common concern was nightlife: “Wh

When Gemma Collins said, "It’s hell in there. It’s horror. You have to be a certain type of person to survive," you’d think she was talking about the dating scene in St Andrews. Hell, horror, and a pained existence encapsulate what many singletons experience here – a trilogy of suffering born not just from abstinence, but from actually going on dates.   The issues are obvious. Sixty percent of students are female, so there are simply more women than men. As one student noted,