Yesteryear is unlike anything I have ever read. Rarely has a protagonist been so immediately, spectacularly unlikeable. Natalie hooks you t...

"The first time I kissed a girl, my brother died":  Years after her older brother Ferdia’s tragic death, Jay has moved from her ho...

  Suyin Du Bois’ debut poetry pamphlet is a tapestry of shared cultures, a smorgasbord of delectable delights and rough estimations; a rich ...

Some poems use form and language to weave gold from the ordinary stuff of life; others take extraordinary (even extreme) topics and much of ...

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

"What you saw was a woman, bent out of shape. Pushed beyond her breaking point. Turns out we’ve all got them."  Rachel Canwell’s d...

"How far will hunger drive a body over borders?" Ai’s debut chapbook is driven by an enterprising voice, and a new angle on age-ol...

"Cora never liked the name Gordon. The way it starts with a splintering sound that makes her think of cracked boiled sweets, and then e...

  Karen Stevens’s debut collection transports the reader straight into her fictional world with a tag line that sounds both like a warning a...

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 ...

Kathy Hoyle’s debut novella-in-flash, Chasing the Dragon , is an ambitious and compelling example of the form. The novella-in-flash is an em...

    This debut-collection from Black British poet A. J. Akoto is a book of deep feeling ‒ poetry that demands to be thought about, and read ...

  A Bad Decade for Good People – Joe Bedford’s debut novel to be published by Parthian in June 2023 – opens with an act of violence: ‘If th...

This first poetry book by Bridget Khursheed, who lives in the Borders near Melrose, is full of powerful, distinctive poems, mostly about cou...

  Lucky the reader who stumbles on this debut collection. Here they will find balm for the spirit, succour for the soul. Sallie Durham’s poe...

Fragile Monsters is the debut of Catherine Menon, known for her excellently crafted short stories.  The story opens with Durga, a mathemati...

This is a deftly-written and highly moving account of the effects of dementia on an elderly woman, May of the title, and those around h...