IN THE CRYPT WITH A CANDLESTICK IS BOOK-CAST OF THE WEEK
Daisy Waugh ‘In the Crypt with a Candlestick’ is book-cast of the week on newly launched ‘The Great Big Book Club’. The novel has already been nominated for a comedy prize so buckle up & get ready for some laugh out loud fun with Daisy Waugh reading from ‘In the Crypt with a Candlestick’ for […]
The Aitken Alexander Isolation Series: Catafalque by Alan Trotter
‘Catafalque’ by Alan Trotter ‘Catafalque’ is a new interactive short story by Alan Trotter, author of MUSCLE. For reasons that will hopefully become obvious, we are unable to copy the text of the story to this website, but if you would like to read then please click here
Bernardine Evaristo shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020
We are thrilled that Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020. The winner will be announced in September.
Daisy Waugh’s In the Crypt with a Candlestick longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020
We are delighted to announce that Daisy Waugh’s In the Crypt with a Candlestick has been longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020, in the Published Comic Novel category. The shortlist will be announced on the 1st of June.
The Aitken Alexander Isolation Series: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Crisis by Jessica Johannesson
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Crisis A long time ago, long before I became afraid of what’s going to kill the birds, I was introduced to the Wallace Stevens poem ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’. In 13 short stanzas, Stevens explores what he’s seeing (a blackbird, some mountains through a window) […]
‘Writing allows me to worry about stuff better’: Max Porter interviewed in the Guardian
Max Porter’s second novel, Lanny, is the semi-mythic story of the disappearance of a boy in a rural English village. It follows his widely acclaimed debut, Grief Is the Thing With Feathers. Porter, 38, until recently editorial director of Granta Books, lives near Bath with his wife and three sons, aged 10, seven and four. This interview took place by phone. […]
Mary Jean Chan shortlisted for the 2020 Jhalak Prize
We are delighted that Mary Jean Chan’s Flèche has been shortlisted for the 2020 Jhalak Prize. The winner will be announced on 20th May.
The Aitken Alexander Isolation Series: a new poem by Francis Spufford
A Poem by Francis Spufford From ooze to Ouse I slip; now eel, once elver, I dart an S of silver down dart-straight streams, on lines of wet that meet in skies that drown the fens’ eight-pointed wooden crown. In air, on air, I coast and turn across the sinewed levels of […]
Branches of the Same Tree: Max Porter on the Literary Landscape
A Waterstones Book of the Year nominee and now the Waterstones Book of the Month for April, Max Porter’s Lanny is a lyrical masterpiece from one of the country’s very finest prose stylists. In this exclusive essay, Max examines literature’s unique place in the cultural ecosystem and highlights some other authors and works which share his […]
Bernardine Evaristo and Charles Moore longlisted for the Orwell Prize
We are thrilled to announce that Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other has been longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatcher—Herself Alone: The Authorized Biography Vol 3 has been longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. The shortlists will be announced in May.