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Myths, midlife and the end of immortality
When I started writing the poems that formed The Odyssey Complex and Other Poems, my fourth collection, I was in my mid-40s.
Myths, midlife and the end of immortality
When I started writing the poems that formed The Odyssey Complex and Other Poems, my fourth collection, I was in my mid-40s.
Xan Brooks longlisted for £25,000 Walter Scott ...
Xan Brooks’s widely-reviewed second novel, The Catchers, has been nominated for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025. It is the second time Brooks has been selected for the...
Xan Brooks longlisted for £25,000 Walter Scott ...
Xan Brooks’s widely-reviewed second novel, The Catchers, has been nominated for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025. It is the second time Brooks has been selected for the...
White Space for the poet Adrian Mitchell
Early mentors in writing can be forever. Mine is Adrian Mitchell.
White Space for the poet Adrian Mitchell
Early mentors in writing can be forever. Mine is Adrian Mitchell.
Saying Dirty Things in Regional Accents, thanks...
I first read James Kelman’s stories in the mid-nineties and, while I hugely admired Kelman from an early stage, I found his work hard going.
Saying Dirty Things in Regional Accents, thanks...
I first read James Kelman’s stories in the mid-nineties and, while I hugely admired Kelman from an early stage, I found his work hard going.
Michael Arditti joins the Salt list
In what is being hailed as a very significant acquisition, we have signed acclaimed author Michael Arditti to our list.
Michael Arditti joins the Salt list
In what is being hailed as a very significant acquisition, we have signed acclaimed author Michael Arditti to our list.
The train to Genova Piazza Principe
I knew I wanted to escape Thatcher’s Britain and someone had told me that if I fetched up in Italy before the start of the academic year I might land...
The train to Genova Piazza Principe
I knew I wanted to escape Thatcher’s Britain and someone had told me that if I fetched up in Italy before the start of the academic year I might land...
Memo to novelists: older women have sexual desires
I remember reading a letter in a national broadsheet from a woman in her nineties, who wrote that her lover of many years, a man in his eighties, had found...
Memo to novelists: older women have sexual desires
I remember reading a letter in a national broadsheet from a woman in her nineties, who wrote that her lover of many years, a man in his eighties, had found...
Paris Fantastique
When I came up with the idea for three collections of short stories set in the three cities I’ve lived in, Paris was always going to be the one that...
Paris Fantastique
When I came up with the idea for three collections of short stories set in the three cities I’ve lived in, Paris was always going to be the one that...
Black Country Noir
A couple of years ago, a good friend of mine – another writer – came to visit from Manchester. She’d been to Birmingham before, and thought she’d therefore ‘been to...
Black Country Noir
A couple of years ago, a good friend of mine – another writer – came to visit from Manchester. She’d been to Birmingham before, and thought she’d therefore ‘been to...