Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s novel The House of Rust reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE HOUSE OF RUST
...
Tom Vowler’s Every Seventh Wave reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: EVERY SEVENTH WAVE
...
Mario Levrero’s The Luminous Novel reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE LUMINOUS NOVEL
...
Shalom Auslander’s Mother for Dinner reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: MOTHER FOR DINNER
...
Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: OF WOMEN AND SALT
...
The Lamplighters begins with a classic locked room mystery, inspired by a real-life event in the Outer Hebrides in 1900, but the mystery is just the starting point for this ...
Lochlan Bloom finds that whilst S truly is a landmark in publishing, it sadly does not live up to its presentation with a worthwhile story. A stunning artefact, a so-so ...
“I wanted to create my own faith from all the faiths and cults that I remember while I was growing up, from the California cults of Charles Manson and Reverend ...
Kate Brown on a story of life for a mother and her two daughters after they escape from a religious cult. Down on her luck in her teens, Amaranth marries ...
It’s hard to escape the fact that by opening a book, we are accepting a beginning; and by reading its final words, we are acknowledging an end. Is it ever ...
This novel is a stylish, audacious and self-assured debut that mercilessly exposes the artistic ego and, in doing so, both ridicules and humanises it. Its wandering and plotless prose might ...
The follow up to 2008’s acclaimed Submarine, Joe Dunthorne’s second novel, Wild Abandon, takes as its focus a number of odd yet endearingly flawed characters practicing, in their words, “secular ...
If London’s smoggy skyline, bright lights and bustling pavements aren’t helping you put pen to paper, maybe it’s time to leave the capital for greener pastures. Follow in the footsteps ...
Titus Awakes exhibition launch: 9 July, 4-8pm @ Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors, 11 Mare Street, London E8 8RP. More information here. To celebrate the centenary of Mervyn Peake’s birth on ...
We all know that novelists devote a staggering amount of their energies on structural details: the enticing openings, the teasing suspense at the end of each chapter, the rising dramas, ...
The British summer is almost, but not quite, upon us. April taunted us with the promise of a long, hot summer, only to pull the carpet out from under our ...
Rob Fred Parker talks to writer Joe Dunthorne about his latest novel, the film adaptation of his debut Submarine, and more. Fans of of the magazine and Litro Live! may also recognise ...
Vintage Classics Day Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, 7th May 2011, 10am-5pm Vintage Classics is introducing the Orange Inheritance collection this week. This collection of classic novels, selected and introduced ...
Say the name “Philippa Gregory” and one immediately thinks of tightly laced corsets, the corrugated lace of magnificently decorative ruffs, cunning plots and manipulative manoeuvres in the dangerous arena of ...
Chapter One The first time you saw her, in person, was from the top of a red brick office block. You’d climbed the scaffolding that had gone up all around ...
