Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
I read this book back in the spring, before it got shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and got a fair bit of attention. But, as…
A Story From a “What If?” Moment
One evening in Crete, a couple of years ago, I saw something that made a lasting impression on me. A small boy, maybe…
Q&A With Dodge and Burn Author Seraphina Madsen
Recently I read and reviewed Dodge and Burn, a startling and very original debut novel by Seraphina Madsen. I had the chance to…
Review of Dodge and Burn by Seraphina Madsen
Imagine Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Hunter Thompson engaging in a wild, drug-fuelled orgy somewhere out in the Arizona desert, and by…
Creative block? It’s not about the time
In even the busiest lives, there are pockets of time in which extra things could be accomplished. But these are times when…
New Bitmead Bursary Winner Announced
Winning the Luke Bitmead Bursary back in 2008 changed my life in many ways, some of which I’ve detailed on the blog before. One…
Why I still love bookshops
I’ve written about bookshops a lot on this blog over this years. There’s a good reason for this. For me, good bookshops…
Q&A with the founders of new indie publisher Dodo Ink
Dodo Ink is a new independent publisher in the UK, promising to publish “bold, daring, risky but accessible literary novels”. They’re currently…
The best of people
The more I see of the world, the more I realise that we’re really quite limited as a species. In small groups,…