This is an extraordinary, inventive canon of work, made even more incredible in that all the stories are so unusual, so challenging, as th...

  Cathi Rae’s collection of poems Just This Side of Seaworthy  explores the complexities of ageing and mental illness and the forging of new...

This book is what it says, carefully hidden by brackets: a mourning for lost children, a mourning of the past. Mo(u)rning Rituals is a hear...

The ‘Invitation’ ‘to talk / about difference/ with its ambiguous / double birth’ at the beginning of two thought provoking sequences of poem...

In the later 1930s Ford Madox Ford was asked by one of his writing students, Robert Lowell, what the one essential need was for an aspiring ...

I was glad to receive this collection for review, and it more than lives up to the promise of Burn's first collection, Be Feared , her m...

This is a speculative novel running along two timelines: the aftermath of the Great Storm in southern England, 1987, and events that unfold ...

"Kill your darlings," enjoined Stephen King, talking of the need for writers to cut words which may have taken hours to develop. T...

The act of self-reflection is an indulgence and one that women throughout history have seldom had the opportunity to do, more often being th...