The Islands by Carlos Gamerro is narrated by a Falklands/Malvinas war veteran with a piece of shrapnel fused into his skull. He literally cannot get the war out of his head. Because the war is there all the time in his head Felipe spends a good deal of...

25-26 Feb was a large weekend in football. I was in Shepherd's Bush for the big London derby between local rivals QPR and Fulham. The following day up North there was another derby featuring Arsenal and Spurs while later the same afternoon the Carling Cup final took place at Wembley...

There are great changes afoot in the publishing industry. Sales of e-books are hitting those of traditional hardbacks hard and now Amazon has launched a Kindle store in that bastion of the printed book - Germany.

But what is it about e-books that has given them...

Claire Armistead started me thinking with her #strikelit hashtag yesterday morning.

In my opinion Germinal by Emile Zola provides the best depiction of a strike in world literature. Zola examines the effects of the strike in a coalmine in Northern France during the 1860s.

Étienne Lantier...

I saw a tweet from @DigitalDan about their new idea Storycuts. I followed the link and browsed the list. Random House is a fine publisher with a wonderful stable of authors so I was soon tempted and drooling with anticipation. But as I went to download a story...