Editor’s Pick

Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four…

I have often wished I could step back in time to see the Mersey in its golden years brimming with vessels setting…

We meet in town, in one of the pubs. Way back when, before gastropubs and chains, before pubs got remodelled to look…

I found it interesting when Annie Lennox said recently that she finds it increasingly difficult to write when she is content and…

As if we needed any additional incentive to travel to Spain, now that winter has definitely arrived in the northern climes, the…

Writer Erinna Mettler sparked my interest this week with her post on ‘Desk Envy’. A writer’s desk is such a fundamental part…

I am not quite sure by what happy chance The Assault by Harry Mulisch arrived on my ‘to read’ list, but I…

Planning a trip to Kyoto in Golden Week, I took the opportunity of asking everyone I knew for recommendations. Go to both…