by Emily McKinney Think you’ve never met a ghost? Think again. As foretold by Dickens, the ‘Ghosts of Christmas’ haunt us each year. The Christmas song comes out of hiding in November […]
A Christmas Carol: The Ghosts of Christmas Past
The Problem with Women And Other Stories
How pushing the pink envelope is a backward step towards equality Did you know this year was the year of publishing female writers? No, me neither. Kamila Shamsie came up with the […]
50 Years of The Man Booker Prize
by Lucy Middleton This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most prestigious literary accolades: The Man Booker Prize. The prize was set up in 1968 as a strategy to salvage […]
Prison Literature – Part 1: The Writer as Prisoner
Bramina Braet Prison literature is a genre characterized by works that are written while the author is incarcerated. The literature can be about prison, informed by it, or simply coincidentally written while […]
Interview: Professor John Bowen, Expert Dickens Advisor
A Christmas Carol, one of Charles Dickens’ most famous works, is about to be reimagined on stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company this winter. I spoke with its expert advisor, Professor John […]
The Danger of a Single Story
Ellie Fells The debate about the diversity of literature taught by academic institutions is a well-fuelled one. It is widely acknowledged that the literary canon is fundamentally flawed; with its Eurocentric focus […]
Philip Pullman’s ‘Pernicious’ Discounts
Finley Harnett As I walked past W.H. Smith on Coney Street, I noticed new copies of Philip Pullman’s long-awaited follow-up to his Dark Materials trilogy, The Book of Dust. ‘ONLY £9’, a […]
World Building: The Harry Potter Effect
A Harry Potter store on the York Shambles, a street said to have inspired Diagon Alley. Chloe Harvey The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction defines ‘world building’ as ‘The creation of an […]
My Hero: Helen Dunmore
Lois Rushworth Everyone has a favourite childhood book, and I am no different. I first discovered Ingo when I seven years old; when I went to my local library one afternoon. As […]
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