Seasonal Book Recommendations
When the weather turns cold, there’s nothing better than curling up on the sofa with a good book. So, these...
literature
Is ‘It Starts With Us’ the ‘lighter’ experience Colleen Hoover promised?
Colleen Hoover’s brand new novel It Starts with Us is here. In creating a sequel to her #1 New York...
Review: Emily
In many ways, the eponymous Emily from Frances O’Connor’s recent film about the Wuthering Heights Brontё feels like a profoundly...
Punching Up: My Experience at a Punk Poetry Night
It is significant to see that the Anglophonic punk culture of the 70s and 80s is still beating under the...
Diversify Your Reading List: Who and What to Read this Autumn
After an ever-lasting summer, autumn has finally rolled around. Though it can be tempting for many of us to opt...
A Long History of activism, poetry, and checking his watch…: Linton Kwesi Johnson in Conversation with Gary Younge at Opera North’s Howard Assembly Room
I was delighted to be able to go and see Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ), London's renowned Jamaican poet, activist, and...
The Rundown of the BBC National Short Story Award
The BBC has returned for another year to blindly judge the nation’s five best entrees for their short story competition....
Back-to-school reading: 5 campus novels to get you in the mood for uni life
In true Leeds fashion, the weather has taken a turn for the wintery just in time for term tobegin. It’s...
We Move by Gurnaik Johal – “short story writing at its finest”
We Move, Gurnaik Johal’s debut short story collection, is set in the London district of Southall, famed for its large...
Send Nudes by Saba Sams review – “10 short stories that are brilliantly crafted and subtle in their delivery.”
‘So she left, walked home through the park, with an image in her head that wouldn’t shift: her body as...