If you hold the status of an available, heterosexual millennial woman in 2024, you are probably an Ex-Wife. Claire Marie Healy writes about the brutal relatability of reading Ursula Parrott’s 1920s ...
Cavaliers, roundheads, MPs, clergymen, ballad-writers, playwrights, poets and ordinary men and women: many turned to poetry during the turbulent 1650s. The shocking execution of Charles I led to the ...
When writing a novel, I’m always trying to find ways to get closer to my characters and their world. These paths of approach are often non-literary—in the case of Intermezzo, I watched a lot of chess ...
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes ...