I read over one hundred books in 2016 and I must confess I did feel secretly smug. I had written the titles…

Against a backdrop of everything being dreadful in the world beyond the book in front of my nose, it feels a bit…

It is fair to say 2016 has been an unruly guest as years go. We have been stripped of creative geniuses and…

My review of How to Travel Without Seeing by Andres Neuman is now up at Minor Literature[s]. A break-neck record of musings,…

A pop art version of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, with a touch of Tarantino violence sums up Small Change: Andrez Bergen’s buzzing…

Secrets of the Sea House by Elisabeth Gifford is a tale of survival. Surviving the most terrible events and moving through fear…

One crisp Wednesday morning in May, I swam into the Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice. Located in Calle Lunga Santa Maria Formosa, the…

There are few writers whose work I read avidly as a teen that I can still enjoy something new from, so the pleasure of…

ArtGroupie presents HOTEL. Part of Shiny New Festival 2016 Wednesday 20 July at 7 pm. Tickets available from the Lantern Theatre for…

It is not always easy to read Chaos and Caliphate: Patrick Cockburn’s review of diary entries and newspaper columns written between 2001 and…