Sue Forrester’s debut pamphlet, Familiar Phantoms , transports us across time and place, from England to Africa and Asia. We tend to think o...

This short story collection by A. J. Ashworth is a rewarding read, each story like a piece of mysterious treasure from a dug-up pirates’ che...

In Reflections on Exile and Other Essays , Edward Said describes the "contrapuntal" music of those living in exile: the awareness ...

In the midst of the Covid pandemic, German poet Michael Krüger was also beginning to be treated for leukaemia. He retreated to a wooden hous...

The late John Burnside praised Jordi Doce as "one of the three or four living European poets whose work I most treasure." Slow Bur...

  How pleasant to make the acquaintance of Mary Bailey, a lace worker ("Lace Runner") from the great industrial city of Nottingham...

I am attracted by flânerie, the random wander in cityscape, and was intrigued by the postcolonial aspect. While I anticipated the gauntlet o...

  Jonathan Miles’s Eradication: A Fable is the story of Adi, a former jazz musician turned schoolteacher, reeling from the tragedy of his yo...

It’s the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness so the time is ripe for getting cosy with some dark dystopian fiction. FantasticLand is a ...