Girl In The Dark by Anna Lyndsey
The Observer, March 2015 She has a happy job as a civil servant, has just moved into her first flat and is falling in love. Anna Lyndsey’s life is gloriously unremarkable. And then something odd […]
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Joe Abercrombie on fantasy
Vision, February 2015 With the second book in his YA-flavoured Shattered Sea trilogy out this month – featuring a quote from none other than Game Of Thrones’ George RR Martin on the front – novellist Joe […]
Hassan Sharif’s adventures with the black square
The National, March 2015 It’s the kind of painting that can infuriate the more casual art follower. Walk into the Whitechapel Gallery in London and it’s there, almost confrontational in its simplicity. A solid black […]
Raj Kamal Jha on She Will Build Him A City
The National, March 2015 It’s interview day with the Indian novelist Raj Kamal Jha, and time to cast an eye over The Indian Express, the newspaper of which he is chief editor. Amid news of […]
Revival by Stephen King
The Observer It’s billed as possessing “the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written” – some claim given this is the man who wrote Carrie, 58 novels and 40 years ago. Actually, Revival’s ending […]