Masthead
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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...
Trespassers – A ghost story for Christmas
When a train stalls on a bridge in Levenshulme in Manchester, three regular commuters pass the time by sharing ghost stories.
Trespassers – A ghost story for Christmas
When a train stalls on a bridge in Levenshulme in Manchester, three regular commuters pass the time by sharing ghost stories.
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 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.
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...