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Memo to novelists: older women have sexual desires

Memo to novelists: older women have sexual desires

by Vesna Main 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...

Memo to novelists: older women have sexual desires

by Vesna Main 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...

Paris Fantastique

Paris Fantastique

by Nicholas Royle 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...

Paris Fantastique

by Nicholas Royle 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...

Black Country Noir

Black Country Noir

by Kerry Hadley-Pryce 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...

Black Country Noir

by Kerry Hadley-Pryce 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...

Trespassers – A ghost story for Christmas

Trespassers – A ghost story for Christmas

By David Gaffney When a train stalls on a bridge in Levenshulme in Manchester, three regular commuters pass the time by sharing ghost stories. But when one passenger recounts a...

Trespassers – A ghost story for Christmas

By David Gaffney When a train stalls on a bridge in Levenshulme in Manchester, three regular commuters pass the time by sharing ghost stories. But when one passenger recounts a...

Salt Announces an Expansion of Their Genre Offering

Salt Announces an Expansion of Their Genre Offe...

Salt Publishing have announced an expansion into genre and commercial fiction, along with four new debuts in the horror and historical fiction genres to be published in 2025. Salt’s recent...

Salt Announces an Expansion of Their Genre Offe...

Salt Publishing have announced an expansion into genre and commercial fiction, along with four new debuts in the horror and historical fiction genres to be published in 2025. Salt’s recent...

Paul Pickering says the fact that we humans can break any tyranny is beautiful

Paul Pickering says the fact that we humans can...

A journalist reporting from conflict zones for The Times London, Paul Pickering turned novelist to tell the story of Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death’ at Auschwitz, whom he met...

Paul Pickering says the fact that we humans can...

A journalist reporting from conflict zones for The Times London, Paul Pickering turned novelist to tell the story of Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death’ at Auschwitz, whom he met...