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Author Benjamin Wood sits down with us to discuss his latest fiction, Seascraper, after being longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025!

Photo from Creative Commons In this day and age, poetry is like marmite. You either love it or you hate it. Until last year, I used to...

A Polish journalist plays cards in his Tehran hotel room. He observes the disconcerting cycle of missing people and 'criminals' on his hotel television screen. Thus begins Ryszard Kapuściński’s tale of the Iranian revolution in Shah of Shahs. 

Photo by Artemis McMaster-Christie Gorgeous and raw, The Use of Photography , by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, and the once obscure...

The state of not knowing is one of eternal limbo. To be born into a world beyond human understanding, caught delicately between a...

“ We love words .” When preparing for my interview with Ted Hodgkinson, head of literature and spoken word at the Southbank Centre, I...

The sound of Ahmed Adnan’s oud warmed the brutalist walls of the Barbican’s Cinema 1 as Comma Press presented Voices of Resilience....

Released in 1987, like a caged bird freed from the silencing of Americas Post-Colonial slave trade, Toni Morrison’s third novel ‘Beloved’...

I have just read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential for the first time and it’s like nothing I have read before. Perhaps a similar...

Last week, the King’s World Literature Society kicked off their first book club of the year with an introduction to The Little Prince ,...