‘Music’s sexy, dance is sexy, not books’: how funding cuts hit North’s publishersGuildhall Press and Blackstaff Press have had to adjust after losing Arts Council grants but at the grassroots things are flourishing with a host of new print and online titlesThu Nov 19 2015 - 11:15
Generation by Paula McGrath review: The ties that bind emigrant familiesFor McGrath, the modern family is a fragmented entity: not one, but two, husbands leave their wives for pregnant girlfriends. The ties that endure are between generationsSat Sept 26 2015 - 00:15
Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, By Haruki MurakamiSat Sept 19 2015 - 00:17
Fanny & Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England, by Neil McKennaPaperback reviewSat May 31 2014 - 01:00
Navel Gazing: One Woman’s Quest for a Size Normal, By Anne H PutnamPaperback reviewSat Mar 08 2014 - 01:00
Beacons: Stories for Our Not So Distant Future, edited by Gregory NormintonPaperback reviewSat Apr 06 2013 - 06:00
PaperbacksThe Four Elements, Brooklyn Heights, In the Garden of Beasts, Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse, GealachSat Dec 01 2012 - 00:00
A deadline for redemptionFiction: We Are Now Beginning Our Descent By James Meek Canongate, 295pp. £16.99 'I want to make some moneySat Feb 02 2008 - 00:00
A new take on the TroublesFiction: Anna Burns was born in Belfast in 1962, but - as the dustjacket of Little Constructions proudly declares - moved to…Sat Jun 30 2007 - 01:00
Dreams and diversityAnthology Appropriately, Facing White begins with a quotation from Oscar Wilde: "I am a dreamerSat Jun 23 2007 - 01:00
Voices from the labyrinth of Georgian LondonFiction To achieve literary fame through the phenomenal success of one book can be both a blessing and a curseSat May 19 2007 - 01:00
Escape from East PrussiaFiction: 'Everyone should know their history", warns a Jewish coffin-maker at the start of The FlightSat Apr 07 2007 - 01:00
More cowboys and IndiansFiction: In modern-day Orap - a thinly-veiled Afghanistan - a new regime winds the clock back to the year zeroSat Feb 24 2007 - 00:00