How to get Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize

‘I think it helped a lot that I was very unfamiliar with the Arab world in general and Oman in parti …

Lee Randall Reviews: Spring by Ali Smith

‘Surprise. Happy new year. Everything impossible is possible.’

A Year of Conversation

‘I think we should applaud and (continue to) support the work of award-winning Charco Press, based i …

International Women’s Day: Let Me Tell You This by Nadine Aisha Jassat

‘I’ll take them with me, as I use my words in protest. As I forge ahead. As we forge ahead.’

New Writing: Linda Cracknell’s When Tumblers Turn

‘A scent of expectation hung in the room, an assumption that she should care or feel something after …

Alistair Braidwood Reviews: For the Good Times by David Keenan

‘I mean, we all went to see Bill Haley when he played Belfast. That was just an excuse to rip out th …