Coffee Break Classics:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

One of my favourites.
The kind of book you can read in an afternoon, often because it’s almost impossible to put down.

“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert…”

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Coffee Break Classics:
A Psalm for the Wild-Built

It feels warm, humane, and strangely apt for the times we’re living in.
“You don’t have to justify your existence. You’re allowed to just live.”

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Coffee Break Classics:
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

I love the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro.
They’re devastating in the most beautiful of ways.

“We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”

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Coffee Break Classics:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

Not all cages look like cages.

“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”

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Coffee Break Classics:
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

Innocence, corrupted.

The horror isn’t just what happens, it’s the normalisation of it.

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”

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Coffee Break Classics:

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

“The darkness of man’s heart.”

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Coffee Break Classics:

The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham

“The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.”

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Coffee Break Classics:

The Island of Doctor Moreau – H. G. Wells

“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.”

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Coffee Break Classics:

The Time Machine – H. G. Wells

“We are always getting away from the present moment.”

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1984 – George Orwell
Some books refuse to stay in the past.

Surveillance, language, and the quiet erosion of truth. Not through spectacle, but through control of thought itself.

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”

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Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, one of the finest ghost stories ever written. A house alive with fear, a key that should never be turned.

👻 Coffee Break Classics: one object, one story.

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Coffee Break Classics: The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Barcoded dog tags; identity reduced to inventory.
A cold, sharp story of time, loss, and disconnection.
#CoffeeBreakClassics #TheForeverWar #JoeHaldeman #MinimalistDesign

This week’s Coffee Break Classics is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. One of my all-time favourite books, and a huge influence on me when I first read it in my twenties.
A quiet reminder that quality isn’t an outcome, but a way of seeing, a way of being.

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This weeks reimagining for Coffee Break Classics. The timeless 'To Kill a Mockingbird', a story that still speaks clearly today as a reminder to hold onto empathy, question prejudice, and look for the good in each other.

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A seasonal reimagining for this week’s Coffee Break Classics. A reminder that change is possible, compassion matters, and it’s never too late to choose a kinder path.

Merry Christmas to all :)

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Coffee Break Classics:
Toni Morrison by The Bluest Eye

A story that begins with marigolds that would not bloom.
A meditation on beauty, innocence, and the quiet harm of being unseen.

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Coffee Break Classics:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

A story that whispers rather than shouts about freedom, courage, and the quiet joy of becoming more than we were.

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Coffee Break Classics:
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

After a month of shadows, a turn toward warmth.
A friendship built through letters, wit, and a shared love of books, proof that words alone can bridge oceans.

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Coffee Break Classics: Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist

A vampire story that isn’t really about vampires.
A frozen playground, a swing, and a friendship that defies the dark.

Those who know will recognise it. Those who don’t might want to.
#CoffeeBreakClassics #LetTheRightOneIn #Horror

Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes: a carnival of fear, childhood, and temptation. The carousel horse, stripped back to its shape, still heavy with dread.
🍂 Another Coffee Break Classic.
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Dracula (1897) isn’t just fangs and folklore. Told through journals and letters, it made vampires feel chillingly real. A quill and ink? Gothic minimalism.
🦇 Another Coffee Break Classic.
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Pausing my sci-fi run with Frankenstein; the first true sci-fi novel and a gothic horror masterpiece. The perfect crossover for a run of horror classics through the Halloween period, classic and modern.

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Coffee Break Classic: Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke
A toy rocket; playful, nostalgic, already obsolete.
This one left me with a strange mix of awe, melancholy, and inevitability.
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Coffee Break Classics: The Midwich Cuckoos
One of my favourites from Mr Wyndham—a quiet tale of dread in picture-perfect suburbia.
I first saw Village of the Damned aged 12, watching through my fingers.

#JohnWyndham #CoffeeBreakClassics #PenguinModernClassics #BookDesign #Minimalism

🔶 Trainspotting 🔶
A track switch frozen mid-choice.
Control or chaos. Heroin or hope.
A minimalist coaster for Irvine Welsh’s unflinching classic.
Choose life—or don’t.
☕️📚
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🔶 Coffee Break Classics: Fear and Loathing 🔶
Aviators. Desert sun. Bad vibes and worse decisions.
A minimalist coaster tribute to Thompson’s hallucinated road trip.
Less cover, more flashback.
☕️🌀
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