The Observer, April 2015 There’s an enjoyable lineage to Biteback’s Provocations series, its collection of thinkpieces by contemporary figures on the issues of the day. It echoes the output of the 18th- and 19th-century pamphleteers, […]
The Observer, March 2015 Mark Ellen surveys the happy youngsters comfortably cavorting at Glastonbury, marvelling at Primal Scream beneath a harvest moon. “You bastards,” moans the music journalist and editor, recalling his nascent festival experiences […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]