I wasn’t entirely sure what I was walking into when I signed up for Literary Leicester 2026 . It was my first ever literary festival, but I ...

Imagine this: the First Son of the United States falls in love with the Prince of Wales. Yup. That’s basically Red, White, & Royal Blue...

Annabelle Slator grew up writing stories in the depths of the British countryside. After achieving a degree in Creative Writing, she spent ...

I still remember walking out of the theatre after watching Raazi in 2018 feeling … unsettled.  My chest felt tight, my mind restless. I cou...

This is everyday life, simply depicted, suicide taken in a stride, elongated spaces between the words giving breath where there is none. The...

Anne Caldwell’s The Language of Now is a collection of prose poems that moves quietly but insistently through memory, landscape and the fr...

Adam Glynn’s 2001 debut is probably best described as the fabled "positive drug story," albeit a cautionary tale about drug use. S...

"He was a magician but not a very good one": this is a  book seemingly at first about an affair. The couple have just eloped, but ...

Simon Maddrell is such an accomplished poet with an assured voice, it’s hard to believe this is his debut collection. He writes about growin...