Posts in category Literature

A book about the Iraq War. A book about the Iraq War with a soldier draped in the United States flag on its cover. A …

When Stephen King thinks your novel is “genuinely scary” you must be doing something right. Author of five previous novels, Alice Thompson’s sixth – Burnt …

If we stop to analyze the vast literature field of the last two centuries we will find novels that leave us  a languid and gloomy trace. …

Thursday 21st March was world poetry day, and having recently dipped my toe in the world of poetry, I began to question (with some sadness) …

My belly and whole is being warmed by a Languedoc Viognier – peach, honeysuckle, perfect body – as I sit down to write a review …

When I signed up for the ‘Nikolay Gogol and Metaphysics of Russia’ lecture hosted by Academia Rossica on a Friday evening, I thought it may …

I cannot imagine a better and more appropriate opening night to the Slovo Russian Literature Festival. Organised by the Academia Rossica, this festival is all …

Dynasties of the Sea delves into the fascinating dichotomy of the ancient maritime industry – traditional, yet always moving, always changing – and meets the …

The first time I saw The Shipping Man it was lying on a shipbroker’s bed and I had only recently discovered what a shipbroker was. …

  Yesterday, I took my little baby, who, up until now, I have guarded from everyone but Joyce Carol Oates and my mother, and dumped …