The cafe killer
I have a confession to make. I’m a natural born killer. Don’t worry – I don’t kill people, or even butterflies. I kill cafes. All…
The Silk Peacock by Hilary West
This is an interesting and very varied collection of short stories. The overall style is literary fiction, but there are some murder…
The Twitterati: literary fiction writers to follow on Twitter
A blog post listing all the writers on Twitter would probably take me a lifetime to compile, and cause WordPress to explode…
Who needs Paradise? by Paula Harrold
I first met Paula Harrold when she was a pink-haired Oxford theology student who decorated her bedroom wall with a large scythe.…
Let’s confirm nearer the time
Technology was supposed to simplify our lives, wasn’t it? In so many ways it does, of course, but then we seem to…
How quickly can you put out an eBook?
So this morning Chinese writer Mo Yan was announced as the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Not having heard of him,…
Author interview – J.R. Crook
I reviewed J.R. Crook’s debut novel Sleeping Patterns on this blog a few weeks ago, and thought I’d follow up by asking…
Me and Marcel
I was happy to hear that one of my short stories has been translated into Turkish and published in a literary magazine.…
The 20 best Caribbean book blogs
Since moving to Barbados in December last year, I’ve been keen to discover more about Caribbean literature, and a great way to…