Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four …
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 …
Over the lockdown, Seagull Books gave away a cornucopia of world literature to readers. I chose The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus …
