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A LOOK BEHIND AN INDIE PUBLISHING HOUSE – INKSPOT PUBLISHING, Interview by Akshay Gajria
While studying an MA in Creative Writing, it was ritual to follow up our classes with a pint of beer in a nearby pub. This, of course, was where the real learning happened: sitting across your peers over a pint and sharing ideas, discussing and dissecting that day’s class. These always led to newer, better,…
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SIX OF THE BEST, by Bruno Noble
What does one look for in a novel? For me, it’s ideas and fine writing. I gave a friend a book by John Updike once, and he said he hated being pulled out of the story to think, Oh what, a beautiful sentence this is! But not me. I like to wrap fine sentences around…
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SIX OF THE BEST: BOOKS TO MAKE YOU HOPEFUL AGAIN, by Summer Kendrick
When world leaders are acting like that one guy in high school who took a shit in the girls locker room, it’s easy to feel disheartened.
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SIX OF THE BEST, by JB Smith
To read Carlo Rovelli is to have your hand taken by a kindly Italian man with a soft voice and enigmatic smile, then led gently down the rabbit hole into a quantum wonderland where the only thing you can be certain of is that certainty doesn’t exist.
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SWANNA IN LOVE (JENNIFER BELLE), reviewed by Craig Smith
There are two ways to think of Swanna in Love.
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SIX OF THE BEST, by Tim Bradford
Probably shouldn’t include something by a Birkbeck staffer but I’m not a student now so – fuck it.
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THE INTENTIONALITY BEHIND THE WORK: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, by Akshay Gajria
Eragon, the first book in the Inheritance Cycle, which established the World of Eragon as we know it now, holds a special place in my heart and my bookshelf. It is the second book I’d ever read in its entirety and where my love for books and stories started. I was around 7-years-old and it…
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AN INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY MCGOWAN, by JB Smith
“Stag Hunt was published by Hodder and Stoughton. Beautiful edition. Nice reviews. Tesco bought tens of thousands of copies.” But here’s the kick. “The barcode had been misprinted and wouldn’t run through the tills.”
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ENCOUNTERS WITH EVERYDAY MADNESS ( CHARLIE HILL), Reviewed by Summer Kendrick
Hill plays with form throughout the book, to great effect. Some stories are epistolic, others are poems, reports or trailing snags of small talk on the School Run. The use of experimental form compliments the overall theme and objectives of the collection, reminding us that rules and reality are flexible conditions.
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