Rutherford Park by Elizabeth Cooke
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re not the target audience for a particular book? The cover of this one set my alarm…
The ten rules of writing fiction
There’s an old Guardian article I’ve used a few times when giving talks on the craft of writing. It was called The…
Dog and Butterfly
Tolstoy famously wrote that “All happy families are alike”, but John Philip Riffice’s novel Dog and Butterfly proves that all good rules also…
The Rag
I like literary magazines. I read a lot of them, although I don’t review them on here too often. I just read…
A bit of nonsense
I was struggling with my writing this morning, and somehow ended up procrastinating by changing all of the words in the first…
Meditation by James Hewitt
Meditation is a difficult subject for a ‘how to’ guide, because ultimately it doesn’t really matter how you do it. This is a pretty…
The Almost Lizard by James Higgerson
James Higgerson’s debut novel follows a teenage boy whose habit of imagining himself in television soap operas develops from harmless fantasy into…
On showing up
There’s a quote I remember hearing years ago, one of those quotes that really resonated with me and has stuck with me…