About Ray Connolly Ray Connolly has written biographies, several novels, including Sunday Morning and Shadows On a Wall , the movies ...

'Let me start at the beginning, or what I think is the beginning,' says the unnamed narrator in the story, 'The Gentleman on...

Tituba's story begins many years before the hysteria of witchcraft hits the village of Salem, and takes us much further afield than ...

In his famous essay The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), George Orwell declares that, for those fighting in the Second World War, ‘a better...

A delightful follow-up to On the Couch: A Bohemian Terrier , this is a perfect blend between story and illustration. Our hero, Zod, is g...

At the end of 2017, we asked readers to nominate a favourite read of the year, and write a one-sentence review of their chosen book. The boo...

One of the historical strengths of poetry as a 'form' is its protean ability to mingle and assimilate different genres and sub-g...

Kevin Brooks, author of the 2014 Carnegie Medal winner The Bunker Diary , is best known for writing gritty young adult novels with a str...

About Rod Duncan  Rod Duncan writes alternate history novels set in the world of the Gas-Lit Empire. The first of these, The Bullet Cat...