Our guest author Melanie Ramdarshan Bold introduces us to the indie publisher Knights Of, whose books want to “give windows into as many worlds as possible”, and explains how they have been disrupting the UK publishing industry. And as Christmas is around the corner, Melanie also included some recommendations for […] Read more
Our guest author Jana Wiggenhauser writes about the Refugee Tales project, questions of representation and agency, the power of storytelling, and what might happen if people actually listen and take action. “Maybe the real story begins here in this office, before you press record and we look in the mirror […] Read more
Today, our guest author Anisia Petcu reviews Kate McNaughton’s debut novel How I Lose You for the Literary Field Kaleidoscope: Writing well is a difficult task. Writing well when your subject is love is even harder. Yet, every now and then, someone gets it right – in this case, that […] Read more
The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival took place in Harrogate from 19-22 July 2018. Lynn Parkinson reports from North Yorkshire for the Literary Field Kaleidoscope. Read more
Elena Schmitz gives us an insight into this year’s London BookFair – from a Welsh perspective. For the first time, Wales had its own stand, rather than just individual Welsh writers and publishers attending. Here is an account of what it was like. London Book Fair 2018 (LBF18) took place […] Read more
There are only a few books that can reveal the condition of being-in-the-world through the phenomenal power of language. Ali Smith’s How to Be Both is one of them, as Alican Akyüz finds in his review. In 1969, B. S. Johnson published The Unfortunates, a book that comes with 27 […] Read more
Kann man eine Lüge dichten? Thekla Dannenberg fasst ihre Eindrücke von der Leipziger Buchmesse zusammen, die von der Debatte um rechte Verlage, aber auch von Copyright-Fragen und den Überlebenschancen kleiner Verlage bestimmt war. Wie schon in Frankfurt war auch die Buchmesse in Leipzig von der Debatte um rechte Verlage geprägt. […] Read more
In November 2017, Mary Beard’s book Women & Power. A Manifesto hit the shelves – and a nerve. In the two parts titled “The Public Voice of Women” and “Women in Power”, Mary Beard draws our attention to culturally embedded stereotypes and “cultural template[s] which [work] to disempower women”. She […] Read more
Same chair, same location, same organisers. Still – hot! Jessica Fischer enjoys the readings and discussions with authors from the UK at the British Council Literature Seminar and feels fortified by the liberating energy that this event generated in all its diversity. The British Council invited writers and readers, professionals […] Read more
Are any of your New Year’s resolutions connected to travelling? Alain de Botton’s The Art of Travel is a treatise on an everlasting contemporary phenomenon: the desire to travel, the longing to escape the boredom and lethargy of everyday life. Jana Wiggenhauser reviews de Botton’s novel for the Literary Field […] Read more
