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This beautiful snapshot of Antwerp in its 16th-century pomp reveals a city flush with money but with no idea how to spend itAntwerp is the star of this charming […]

Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor in Apex Magazine A girl has lost her soul and Redcap Kestrel agrees to get it back. Once she […]

An engaging academic study of Alexei Navalny paints a vivid picture of a Russian politician who is a necessarily courageous product of the internet ageIn January, […]

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Or rather I know what I can do for now, and it isn’t much.For those of you new to the whole thing – I am basically the only high-ranking staff o […]

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I’m working very hard on my latest book CHIVALRY for Neil Gaiman, coming from Dark Horse.I’m running really late. How incredibly fortunate I am to […]

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Alone. Megan E. Freeman. 2021. [January] 404 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: This is my reality.Premise/plot: Maddie thought her idea was brilliant: […]

The novelist on making Philip Larkin his fictional father, why writing has become a battle, and his new work about race in the USMartin Amis, 71, is the author of […]

It’s true. I make up so much less than people think…

The Booker-winning novelist knew when she read the Iliad that she would write about Briseis one dayIn The Human Stain Philip Roth describes the Iliad as the source […]

Most recently portrayed by Dev Patel in The Green Knight, Gawain is Arthurian legend’s most complex character. Director David Lowery and others talk about how t […]

I was half way up a mountain in China in 2008 when I ran into a man selling snow-white honey from a stall. I’d never seen honey that colour before, never have s […]

Science fiction, theology, puzzles and a whole lot of sex … this mammoth novel is one extended stylish flourish that threatens to lose the plotOf the ambition, i […]

Grief, anxiety and the many flavours of instant noodles suffuse this story of loss, growth and mother-daughter love“Where do you go after you witness death?” Mic […]

Felaheen Jon Courtney Grimwood’s Arabesk Trilogy comes to its conclusion. Raf, having spent two books in El Iskandryia, the alternate future Free City of A […]

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That Thing About Bollywood. Supriya Kelkar. 2021. [May] 352 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: You know how in Bollywood movies, people sing and dance on […]

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When the 2011 riots broke out, they were widely dismissed as plain criminality. A new work by film-maker Baff Akoto tells a different story – and shows how the c […]

A couple of years ago a young lady approached me at an event put on by a mutual friend, and asked if she could interview me for her podcast, Tea With Alice. At the […]

A deep and abiding love for pretty much everything Stephin Merritt has ever made.