Clive James pithily said, “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.” What a pat late-nineteenth-century inheritance. […]
A supermoon pink-flooded the workshop and all things therein. An ebay-bought second-hand digicam and an ex-professional camera dolly […]
I first moved to Italy in the early 1990s and, as is sometimes the way, found myself hanging […]
Colline, translated into English as Hill, was first published in 1929. It is the award-winning first novella written […]
The Latte Art Catastrophe is a dark comedy for decadent times. The opening episode looks aghast at the […]
Epping Forest is as unlikely to pique my interest as Sherwood Forest, or any of the other British […]
Will Ashon’s non-fiction debut Strange Labyrinth blends nature writing, psychogeography and memoir in its depiction of the ‘outlaws, […]
On My Own I didn’t fully wipe, which can only be fully discovered by walking. This time I […]
Set on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, Benjamin Myers’ latest novel The Gallows Pole combines radical politics […]
My boyhood summer vacations began with a boat ride from a little port in Kazan. The trip would […]
