While I didn’t post too many reviews in September, it was a most enjoyable reading month, with several great new reads and a few cheeky rereads going on in the background, too.  I also manage…

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

I hope you didn’t think I’d abandoned my art adventures! It’s just that July and August were mostly so drearily hot and humid that I lost a lot of energy, sometimes for going out,…

August saw me embarking on the traditional Women in Translation Month reading, and an enjoyable month it was, too.  I travelled far and wide thanks to all the various writers and translators, and i…

From cover design to shelf placement and influencer partnerships … how publishers will persuade you to buy their books this autumn

The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio; Short Circuit by Wolf Haas; Cosmos by Lucia Odoom; The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest

July saw the FIFA World Cup finally draw to a close, and as the games dried up, more time became available for reading, which is always good.  The weather has also taken a turn for the colder down …

June, as expected, has largely been spent in front of the telly, watching grown men chasing a colourful ball around, and that has had a slight effect on my reading.  However, I’ve done my bes…

I’m always a little suspicious of books that draw on the work of other writers, so when Scribe Publications sent me a novel with a twist on a Shakespearean story, I was a little hesitant to g…

I’m extremely fortunate that the university library has a rather relaxed view of lending limits for staff (or that I borrow the kind of books nobody else wants to read…) as I’ve h…