The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas -Tsolkias makes a brave attempt to get inside the heads of a fifteen year old schoolgirl and a married woman…
December 2010: This month we feature Tanya Ilyina from our Moscow office who is leading on planning for Russia 2011 over there. The Pleasure Seekers…
Dickens by Michael Slater – At 668 pages this is a hefty tome. Not one for the bus or tube, but the perfect read for…
We Had it so Good by Linda Grant – Linda has done a couple of trips for literature department recently – to the Walberberg seminar…
Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty tells the story of a woman who loses her nine year old daughter in a traffic accident following the…
UK-based Underwood: Stories in Sound (named for the old typewriter company by the same name) is a twice-yearly publication produced on vinyl LPs. The journal…
In a recent discussion with a writer taking part in a BC project, I was corrected on my reference to his works as ‘graphic novels’:…
Spoken word has revolutionised poetry events in the UK. Whether you call it spoken word, performance poetry, or live literature, the simplest way to describe…