The clock hand drives us remorselessly towards our uncertain futures. Time does not go backwards. Or perhaps it does. The clock I found in a small, dusty shop in a back alley…
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Over the last couple of years, we’ve all experienced being stuck within the confines of our own homes. We know what it’s like to not be able to travel or socialise, to…
Like Eliza, the heroine of Woman of a Certain Rage, I’ve found myself angrier in midlife. It’s mostly low level, a scream-into-a-cushion, slam-the-dishwasher-shut, pull-faces-at-the-ageing-woman-in-the-bathroom-mirror anger. Occasionally it boils over, which is how…
Ingmar Bergman directed over sixty movies between the years of 1944 and 2003 – earning nine Oscar nominations, introducing the world to beloved actors like Max von Sydow and Liv Ullman, and…
To celebrate PRIDE month and the paperback publication of his wonderfully uplifting novel The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle, author and leading commentator on LGBT+ issues Matt Cain writes about the five books that…
Quest novels are the beating heart of the fantasy genre. They typically centre on a bunch of disparate characters being thrown together under less than ideal circumstances and sent on a hopeless…
It’s a good question, isn’t it? My novel After Dark explores what would happen if we put the burden of responsibility for women’s safety in public spaces not on women themselves, but…