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14 August 2018
Beyond ‘Curious Incident’, New Narratives of Autism by David Hartley
There’s a saying in the autism community: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” There’s a serious humour at the heart of it, a wilful contradiction of logic spoken with an eyebrow raised that asks for change. It speaks to the frustration felt by autistic individuals who have seen the story of their identity told through harmful medical hypothesising, misguided neurotypical guesswork and deeply entrenched stereotyping – and usually by people who are not autistic.
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5 August 2018
Narcissist in the Mirror
An intriguing mish-mash of energetic dialogue and spoken word portrays this often amusing story of an unreliable narcissist who just doesn’t know themselves as well as they think they do.
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4 June 2018
Want my job? Fat Roland: music journalist, comedian & live literature co-ordinator
We chat to Ian Carrington a.k.a Fat Roland, the events and marketing officer for the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, music journalist and comedian, about live literature, bleepy music and how the *bleep* he got into his career.
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2 June 2018
What we are reading: June
Find the books and adaptions that are making waves this June
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10 May 2018
'Instapoets’: The Reformative Literary Movement Occurring on our Screens
With modern poets now reaching celebrity status, social media is heralding a new era for contemporary poetry.
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28 April 2018
Women's Prize for Fiction 2018: Elmet
Fiona Mozley's debut novel has made waves in the book world, first shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now on the Women's Prize longlist.
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28 April 2018
Women's Prize for Fiction 2018: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
An endearing 'uplift' novel which is a pleasure to read
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28 April 2018
Women's Prize for Fiction 2018: When I Hit You; or a Portrait of the Writer as a Wife
Meena Kandasamy's domestic violence narrative is a punch in the gut.
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16 April 2018
Women's Prize for Fiction 2018: Sight
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Jessie Greengrass's Sight has been lauded as a poetic meditation on the experience of motherhood.
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6 April 2018
Women's Prize for Fiction 2018: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
A beautifully written novel, which has been highly anticipated by fans for two decades.
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6 April 2018
Women's Prize for Fiction 2018: Home Fire
A Man Booker Shortlist nominee, Shamsie's incredible retelling of the myth of Antigone has now been nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction.
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10 October 2017
Female writers and mental illness
There has been lots of research into the links between creativity and mental illness; one discovery is that writers are most likely to be affected.
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13 September 2017
Man Booker 2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
With several awards already in the bag, could Whitehead's The Underground Railroad be a shoo-in for the Man Booker?
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13 September 2017
Man Booker 2017: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Shamsie poses tough competition with this touching retelling of a Greek myth.
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24 August 2017
Man Booker 2017: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
A beautifully written novel, which has been highly anticipated by fans for two decades.