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30 July 2021
Review: Erasure by Percival Everett
Erasure is a razor-sharp satire on how race operates in the publishing industry and society.
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23 July 2021
Review: Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
Akwaeke Emezi’s highly anticipated memoir Dear Senthuran is a musing on identity, displacement, and trauma.
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20 July 2021
Review: Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
In Just As I Am, Cicely Tyson reflects on her extraordinary career as an actress.
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12 July 2021
Adoption and Motherhood: The Wild Track by Margaret Reynolds
Part memoir, part examination of motherhood, The Wild Track follows Margaret on her five-year journey to adopting a child. But pivotally, the book asks, ‘what makes any woman want to become a mother?’
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12 July 2021
Dune: The Legacy of Frank Herbert’s Sci Fi classic
A look into why Dune has captured the hearts and minds of generations and has stood the test of time.
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9 July 2021
Review: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply thoughtful novel that paints an unforgettable portrait of familial loss, addiction, depression, and the conflict between faith and science.
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13 October 2021
Luke Wright announces Colchester date for ‘lost’ third play in trilogy
Award winning poet announces Essex date for 'lost' third instalment of trilogy. Fast-paced and thrilling verse play about Brexit and marriage told in blistering verse visits Colchester Arts Centre on 13 October.
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9 September 2021
Luke Wright: Poet announces Nottingham date for third ‘lost’ trilogy play
Award winning poet announces Nottingham date for 'lost' third instalment of trilogy. Fast-paced and thrilling verse play about Brexit and marriage told in blistering verse visits Nottingham Playhouse on 29 September
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29 July 2021
Luke Wright: Poet announces Cambridge date for third ‘lost’ trilogy play
Award winning poet announces Cambridge date for 'lost' third instalment of trilogy. Fast-paced and thrilling verse play about Brexit and marriage told in blistering verse visits Cambridge Junction on 29 July.
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14 October 2021 – 15 October 2021
Luke Wright: The Ballad Seller in Manchester
Multi award winning poet updates the scandalous, bawdy and colourful Georgian ballad storytelling style for the modern ear in his eleventh full length poetry show. It visits The Edge, Theatre & Arts Centre in Manchester on 14 and 15 October
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5 July 2021
Want my job? with Publishing PR Assistant Emily Goulding
Emily Goulding has recently joined HarperCollins Publishers as a Public Relations Assistant for their fiction department.
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5 July 2021
Interview with the co-founders of London Performance Studios
We speak to Lise Bell, former Exec Director at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, and visual artist Than Hussein Clark about the new spaces and wraparound support they are making available to artists as we look towards a post-recovery creative sector.
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2 July 2021
Review: The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender
The Butterfly Lampshade, by New York Times bestselling author Aimee Bender, is a poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, and mental illness.
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1 July 2021
Brighton Fringe Review: Impromptu Shakespeare
Bursting with comedy, lust, tragedy and so much more. Impromptu Shakespeare combines the world of Shakespearian humour with modern-day culture to craft a unique show every night that left an audience howling.
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29 June 2021
Cultural Comforts: June 2021
Half-way through the year already – here’s another set of recommendations to take a break from heavy/serious culture. This month, all the culture features artists or protagonists that are queer!
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28 June 2021
June nonfiction release: How The Word is Passed by Clint Smith
How The Word is Passed: A Reckoning With The History of Slavery in America is Clint Smith’s first work of nonfiction. By interweaving the past with the present, Smith sketches a history of slavery that is both informative and poetical.
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25 June 2021
Upcoming book release: Reputation by Lex Croucher
Brining to the forefront topics that were off-limits to Regency-era novelists, Reputation is a feminist twist on the classic novel. From alcohol to sex, Reputation touches upon all that would once have been considered scandalous.
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22 June 2021
Nicola Abram awarded Theatre Book Prize 2021 by The Society for Theatre Research
Exploring unpublished materials and responses to societal issues, Nicola Abram’s Black British Women's Theatre: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics has received the Theatre Book Prize for 2021 by the Society for Theatre Research.