Review: On Black Sisters’ Street – Chika Unigwe
On our third evening at The Hurst, The Arvon Foundation’s scenic centre in Shropshire, we were lucky enough to have writer Chika Unigwe as a guest speaker. Nigerian Chika now resides in Belgium with...
View ArticleReview: Precious Thing – Colette McBeth
As an avid writer myself, I’m always keen to read debut novels by authors who have participated in writing courses such as those on offer by The Arvon Foundation or The Faber Academy. And so, I was...
View ArticleReview: Life Drawing – Robin Black
Similar to writer’s block, there are times when, as a reader, I seem to hit a wall. This happened recently; I half-heartedly began a number of books but, unable to feign interest, discarded them within...
View ArticleReview: On Writing – Stephen King
As both an aspiring writer and an avid reader, I face constant battle over whether to dedicate the little spare time that I have to either reading or writing. That much of the past few months were...
View ArticleMy Australian Wish List
With just a month to go until I land on Australia’s golden shores, I thought I’d put together a wish-list for my time there. As a lover of lists, there’s a certain satisfaction that comes with the...
View ArticleThe Art of Travel Writing
With my impending move to Sydney just a matter of weeks away, I attended a travel writing workshop on Saturday, with a view to hone and develop my travel writing skills so that I might venture into the...
View ArticleReview: The Toy Maker – Liam Pieper
Despite having finished the BBC Top 100 a matter of months ago – a challenge I set myself with the sole purpose to expand my reading repertoire – I have since reverted to my reading ways of old;...
View ArticleMy Literary Adventure in Paris
A couple of days ago I got back from a long weekend in Paris. And alongside the copious consumption of both rich food and lots of wine I made sure I paid a trip to Shakespeare and Company, one of the...
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