This is a thoughtful and beautifully crafted collection. Like Janus, Catherine faces both directions as she dips into memories. The months a...

Fiona Theokritoff has a wonderful way with words that beguile, enchant, and beg for answers to so many questions. Science, myth and fancy in...

Dr Louise Powell is an award-winning working-class writer from Middlesbrough. She is the winner of the Sid Chaplin Northern Writer’s Award 2...

Some months ago, when I was half-way through Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad , I had to set it aside. This is not a criticism of...

What a pleasant surprise to find that Brian Howell is still writing and publishing fiction. I first came across him years ago in UK literary...

A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline & Other Lessons is a book of memoir, interwoven with literary, film, drama and social sci...

This is a tender and moving collection celebrating and memorialising two lives, the poet’s mother and her own husband, but succeeding, as al...

Much has been written about the pros and cons of using slang in fiction. It's a difficult act to pull off, if your audience cannot under...

Criticism, like poetry, cannot be written at arm’s length. At least not the best. The critic has to suffer the imperilment of the artist: en...