Cabbie Monaco

Stig of the Dump takes me back to when it was read out in my junior school class. I was probably the same age as Barney, the boy who was t...

I decided to read Rabbit, Run after seeing it included in a couple of listings of great literature of the 20th century. It's about Har...

I picked up Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go because it was described as a dystopian story. The events take place in 1990s England, bu...

I went to the Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair in April 2024, looking for options for self-publishing. Meandering through the stal...

Isabel Colegate's The Shooting Party gives away the end of the story on the first page: " It caused a mild scandal at the time, ....

I must have been watching BBC's Crakerjack! aged six or seven, but all these years later, if someone says "It's Friday", ...

The 1970s, IMHO, was the best decade for music, and you could get it all on Top of the Pops on Thursday evening. Every teen in 70s Britai...