Paula Gooder’s excellent Lydia is a follow-up to the very insightful Phoebe which I read a while back. Both books are very innovative works. It is a genre-defying…
A while back I got a recommendation for the A City in Short Fiction anthologies. I had read the Leeds one a while back here and got The…
A few years ago, I wanted a novel set in Central Africa that was not set in Congo Brazzaville. I could not find anything I liked set in…
I remember an old Twitter friend (who later became a friend in real life but suddenly outgrew our friendship) who once tweeted in anger that all she ever…
In recent months, I have been thinking of money, It is not a topic that has occupied my mind until recently. I have never lacked it nor had…