We meet in town, in one of the pubs. Way back when, before gastropubs and chains, before pubs got remodelled to look…
The 1956 Club inspired this The Lonely Londoners review, but although Sam Selvon vividly conveys ’50s London via a group of recently…
This Singapore Grip review was prompted by the announcement of a new six-part adaptation for ITV of J. G. Farrell’s book, which…
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 once wrote that a reader could have enough of thinking about a character’s breasts, but I will have to change my…
With a title that is crying out to be the name of a band, up there with …And You Will Know Us…
Like many of you who are joining in with Women in Translation Month, I am keen to read Breasts and Eggs by…
A few years ago, I realised that my natural interest in books written in England in the 1920s and 30s was leading…
If you like historical fiction that leans more to the historical than the fiction, how would you feel about an almost wholly…
First published in 1959 with the title Primera Memoria, Ana MarÃa Matute’s novel The Island has recently been published in English by…
I loved Fernando Sdrigotti’s short story Jolts when it appeared in 3am Magazine in 2015. Now five years have whipped by and…
