Three of the Best

Three Aitken Alexander authors have been chosen by the ipaper as three of the best books published this year so far:- FICTION Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Evaristo’s sparkling prose and subversive plots surprise and intrigue. This imaginative, joy-filled eighth novel tells the story of black British womanhood through a variety of […]

Tim Lott: What caused Britain’s national nervous breakdown?

Between 2000 and the 2008 financial crash, tech’s brave new world unleashed changes that were meant to make us happier When did our country lose grip of its senses? Some will argue that we never had any in the first place, but others find a sharp contrast between the edgy, neurotic, angry, irrational country we […]

Max Porter on the Between the Covers podcast

Click here to have a listen.  “In Lanny Max Porter has expanded on his innovative hybrid mode while remaining faithful to our species-wide tradition of storytelling through myth, magic, and parable, but also through the harrowing minutiae of being alive in the trying hours of a small town ruptured by loss. The result is a powerful yet […]

New Statesman: What Is Wrong With Us by Rory Stewart

  Britain is in crisis. To recover we need to rediscover a sense of shame and acknowledge how many unforgivable things are happening in the country. hat is wrong with us? The United Kingdom should be one of the most impressive democracies on Earth. We have incisive and apparently incorruptible judges; an undeferential, boisterous and […]