Posts in category Literature

“People think big ideas suddenly appear on their own, but they’re actually the product of many small, intersecting moments and realisations that move us toward …

A Piece of Fanmail, or, La Gratitud de un Nerd Dominicano. Junot Diaz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American author. I am not (a Pulitzer Prize winner). …

Books. Words. Stories. Fact, or fiction, when reading a book, you are transported to a different world, a different dimension even. You discover new things, …

Boys boys boys, they are still a constant theme with our Bridget, but we have them ranging in age from her young son all the …

A couple of weekends ago I went to Bath to blow the dust off my vocal cords. Bath is a delightful place – stuffed with …

I have to admit, when I opened this book I expected to be greeted by a collection of beautifully woven, gentle, precise stories. But I …

When I started to listen to Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things, I thought it was a bit sad as I was expecting something to the likes …

To the unappreciative and disinterested eye, Anywhere’s Better Than Here might be just another work of modern Chick Lit – lining up to be drowned …

This Friday Ledbury, Herefordshire will become home to the world’s largest poetry festival: ten days of all things rhythm, rhyme and verse in the picture …

It is every weird girl’s most decadent fantasy – being carried off by the Prince of Darkness and fed caviar in banyas; hunting firebirds with …