LIFE AND WRITING
About Me - From Baby to Writer
Contact Me - Snail-mail, e.mail etc
Diary - What I’m up to
Frequently Asked Questions - Trev Taylor Interviews Me
Heroes - Read about my parents, Ronnie and June Hird
Current Projects - What I should be doing
Publications - My Books and Translations
SAMPLES OF MY WRITING
Index
‘The Dilating Pupil’ - Read my novella
‘Born Free’ - First Chapter of Novel
'Tillicoutry/Anywhere' - Extract from 'Nail and Other Stories' story
'This is My Story, This is My Song' - Extract from Short Story - Added 10/6/04
WRITING PAGES
Essential Reading - All the best new books
Books & Stuff - Writing Resource
Lit Mag Central - Lit Zine Resource
More Zines - Yet More Lit Mags
The Gay Read Short Story Competition 2004 - Details of Winners - Added 20/3/04
Gay Read Competition 1st Prize - Richard Hennebert - 'Dying to Love' - Added 20/3/04
Gay Read Competition 2nd Prize - Steve Cook - 'Unfashionably Late' - Added 20/3/04
Gay Read Competition 3rd Prize - Katharine Usher - 'She's Mine' - Added 20/3/04
Save Our Short Story - Campaign Details
SHOWCASE
Contributor's Biographies - Index
Adrian Grima - Seletected Poetry - Updated 30/9/05
Adrian Manning - Selected Poetry
A.D. Winans - Selected Poetry
Alan Beard - Story – ‘Huddersfield Versus Crewe’
Alan Bissett - Story - 'Honey, I'm Still Free' - Added 20/3/05
Alan Catlin - Selected Poetry
Alan Ram - Story – ‘Dennis Peter Liddington' - Added 11/4/04’
Alan Ram - Story - 'A Cup of Coffee, Eva?' - Added 11/4/04
Alan Ram - Story - 'Make Sure There's Something in the Freezer' - Redesigned 11/4/04
Alan Ram - Story – ‘Red Wine and Cakes’
Alan Ram - Story – ‘The Piano and Pitcher’
Alex Hildegarde - Story – ‘Rain’
A. Igoni Barrett - Story - Eyes of a Barren Witch
A. Igoni Barrett - Story - 'The Tempest' - Redesigned 20/6/04
A. Igoni Barrett - Story - 'In the Heat' - Redesigned 20/6/04
A. Igoni Barrett - Story – ‘Domination’ - Added 31/3/06
Alan McWhirter - Story – ‘The Firegod’
Aleathia Drehmer - Selected Poetry
Ali Smith - Story - 'The Child' - Added 30/9/05
Alison Craig - Story – ‘Tribal’
Aliya Whiteley - Stories - 'Spitting Wasps' and 'Why Do People Fall in Love' - Updated 8/11/04
Aliya Whiteley - Story - 'Caterpillar' - Updated 20/6/04
Allan Guthrie - Story - 'Love, Rex' - Added 20/6/05
Ally May - Selected Poems
Andrew Demcak - Selected Poems
Andrew Hook - Story - 'Never Doubt My Love for You' - Added 13/8/04
Andrew Hook - Story – ‘Streetwalk’
Andrew Lander - Selected Poetry
Andrew O’Donnell - Selected poetry and prose
Andrew Seccombe - Story - 'Mud' - Added 31/9/05
Andy Thatcher - Story – ‘Talisman’
Angela Allitt - Biro Babes - Selected Poems
Angela Readman - Selected Poetry
Anne Goodwin - Story - 'Washing Dishes at the Old People's Luncheon Club'
Annette McCone - Story – ‘Closure’
Annie Forbes Cooper - Story - 'Can't Find My Way Home' - Added 20/3/05
Anny de Foosaf - Story – Dean Street' - Added 20/3/05
Anthony Liccione - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05
April-May March - Selected Poetry
Aryan Kaganof - Selected Poetry
Aryan Kaganof - Story - 'Rafiki's Parergon (Intuitively’ - Added 20/6/05
Aryan Kaganof - Story - 'Casey’ - Added 31/3/06
Ashok Chakravarthy - Selected Poetry - Added 20/6/05
Ashok Niyogi - Selected Poetry - Updated 15/01/2006
Audrey Willetts - Biro Babes - Story – ‘Leather, Talc and Toothpaste’
Ben Ashwell - Story - 'Three Beers and Two Joints'
Benjamin Constable - Story - 'Beautiful Havana' - Added 27/9/04
Benjamin Constable - Story - 'Sitting With the Dying Woman' - Added 30/9/05
Benyan Ali Sinjin - Story - ‘Trenchtown Africa’
Ben Myers - Selected Poetry
Bhupinder D Mahi - Stories - 'My Sister's Death,' 'Breakfast with K' and 'It Matters' and poem, 'We' - Updated 20/3/05
Bobby Womb - Story - A Path of Sin and Suffering
Bogdan Tiganov - Selected Poetry - Updated 20/6/05
Bradley Mason Hamlin - Selected Poetry - Added 21/3/04
Brent Hodgson - Poem – ‘Hello Maister Smyth’
Brian Cuninghame - Selected Prose - Added 29/8/04
Brian Cuninghame - Selected Poems
Brian Fugett - Selected Poems
Brian Reid - Selected Poetry - Added 20/3/05
Calum Cumming - Story - 'Flesher' - Added 8/11/04
Cathy Campbell - Story - 'Imrie' - Added 31/3/06
Carol Novack - Story - 'Crazy Broad' - Added 26/8/04
Catherine M. Valente - Selected Poetry - Added 20/6/05
Charles P. Ries - Selected Poetry - Added 20/3/05
Charlie Skinner - Story – ‘The Eye of Horus’
Charlie Skinner - Story - 'When The Tramps of the City…' - Added 31/9/05
Chris Davis - Story - 'The Abandoned Aardvark'
Chris Davis - Story - 'Ramon'
Chris Killen - Story - 'The Talking Magritte' - Added 31/9/05
Chris Major - Selected Poems
Chrissie Gittins - Story - Unsaid
Chrissie Glazebrook - Story - 'The Trip' - Added 8/11/04
Christian Ward - Selected Poetry
Christopher Cunningham - Selected Poetry
Chris Underwood - Selected Poetry
Ciara McLaverty - Selected Poetry
Claire Wyburn - Novel Extract - 'Kill Your Speed' - Added 12/6/04
Clare Azzopardi - Story - 'No Adjective Describe Story' - New Story Added 13/8/04
Clare Azzopardi - Story - 'I, The Witness' - Redesigned 30/9/05
Clare Azzopardi - Story – The Green Line
Cleveland W. Gibson - Story - 'Charles Trenet's La Mer' - Added 20/3/05
Cleveland W. Gibson - Story - 'Remembering Blue Eyes' - Added 20/6/05
Clive Stelfox - Story - 'The Night Shift' - Added 30/7/04
Colin Jackson - Story – Carson McDermott
Craig Kirchner - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05
Craig Terlson - Story – ‘Reap’
Craig Wallwork - Story - The Jesus Toy
Craig Wallwork - Story – ‘The Crocodile’
Craig Wallwork - Story – Autumn Leaves
C.W. Smith - Story – The Vessel
Cynthia Rogerson - Story – Instead of Beauty
Damion Hamilton - Selected Poetry - Updated 15/01/2006
Damion Hamilton - Story – The First Time
Dan Fante - Story - 'Princess' - Added 2/9/04
Dan Fante - Story - 'Mae West' - Added 31/3/06
Dan McNeil - Two Stories - Added 7/7/04
Dan Pearson - Story – ‘A Champion Day at the Maltings’
Dan Provost - Selected Poetry - Updated 20/6/05
Dan Schneider - Story - 'Angels and Gangsters - Part 2' - Added 20/3/05
Dan Schneider - Story - 'Angels and Gangsters Part 1' - Added 31/12/04
Dave Hemmings - Selected Poems
David C. Card - Story - 'Hall of Mirrors' - Added 31/9/05
Davide Trame - Selected Poems Added 20/6/04
David Floyd - Selected Poems
David LaBounty - Selected Poetry
David Gardiner - Story – ‘A Man of Letters’
David McNamara - Story – ‘My Hero’
David Plumb - Selected Poetry
David Niall Wilson - Story – The Games of Our Fathers
David Veronese - Story – ‘Bolivia’
David Veronese - Story – ‘The Sunshine Club’
Dawn Wood - Selected Poems & Art
D.B. Cox - Story - Last Angel in Underland
D.B. Cox - Selected Poetry - Updated 30/9/05
D.B. Cox - Story - 'Boundaries' - Added 30/9/05
D.B. Cox - Story – Fixed as Fate
Debbie Kirk - Selected Poems - Updated 30/9/05
Debra Broughton - Story – ‘Not Guilty' - Added 20/3/05
Dee Rimbaud - Selected Poems & Art
Delphine Lecompte - Selected Prose - 'Rage on the Page' - Updated 20/3/05
Derek Ostuni - Selected Poetry
Derek Ramsay - Story - 'Chords'
Added 20/3/05
Digby Beaumont - Story - 'Nightsweeper'
Digby Beaumont - Story – Dreaming of Kathy Burke
Dominic Burgess - Selected Poems
Don Winter - Selected Poetry
Doug Draime - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05
Doug Holder - Selected Poetry
Doug Tanoury - Selected Poetry
Drew Gummerson - Story - 'The Man in the Caravan' - Added 24/8/04
D. Richard Scannell - Selected Poetry
Dundee Art Angel - Selected writing from the group
Eddie Jeffrey - Story – ‘Last Day' - Added 20/3/05
Eddie Jeffrey - Story – Grits
Eddie Kilowatt - Selected Poetry
Eddie Willson - Story - 'The Power of Love' - Added 18/4/04
Edmund Gordon - Story - 'Clumsy' - Added 31/12/04
Elena Georgiou - Poem – 'A Week in the Life of the Ethnically Indeterminate'
Elizabeth Glixman - Story - 'Mother's Bony Behind' - Added 8/11/04
Elizabeth Glixman - Story - 'The Shoe Salesman from Japan' - Redesigned 20/6/04
Elizabeth P. Glixman - Story - 'Ordinary Fame'
Elizabeth P. Glixman - Story - 'A Thousand Drawings of Edgar'
Emily Stueven - Selected Poems
Eveline Pye - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05
Fisher Thompson - Story - 'Kildeer U.' - Added 20/3/05
F.N. Wright - Selected Poetry - Updated 30/6/05
Frank Burton - Story - The Point
Garan Holcombe - Story – ‘Sleeping Tablets' - Added 20/3/05
Gary Beck - Story - 'Extended Meeting'
Gary Beck - Story – ‘Varner’s Dilemma' - Added 20/3/05
Gay Read Short Story Competition 2003 - The Winning Stories - Added 20/3/04
George Sparling - Story - The Hole
George Sparling - Story - 'Ugly Beauty' - Added 31/12/04
Gerard Hanberry - Selected Poetry
G.N. Harris - Story - 'The Business Trip' - Added 20/3/05
G.N. Harris - Story - 'Therapy Session' - Added 8/6/04
G.N. Harris - Story - 'Reality Chick' - Added 20/6/05
Godfrey Featherstone - Story – ‘And Weel No Wot to Do’
Gordon Legge - Story - My Heart and I Agree
Graham Rae - Articles – ‘No Fight Club' & 'Demented Conversation' - Updated 20/6/05
Graham Stack - Story - 'My Last Chance'
Graham Stack - Selected Prose
Grant D. McLeman - Selected Poetry
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasina - Selected Poetry
Hazel Deal - Story – ‘Lick’ - Added 31/3/06
Haytham al-Wardany - Story – ‘Pissing on the World’
Heather Macleod - Story - 'Star-Crossed' - Added 31/12/04
Heather Macleod - Selected Poetry - Added 18/11/04
Heather Macleod - Story – ‘Party Girl’ - Added 31/3/06
Heidi James - Story - 'Proteus Cabinet' - Added 20/3/05
Heidi James - Story - 'Two Birds With One Stone' - Added 8/11/04
Heidi James - Story - 'Clementine'
Heidi James - Story – ‘Bones’
Heidi James - Story – ‘Brittany’ - Added 31/3/06
Helen Walsh - Novel Extract – ‘The Easby’
Helen Walsh - Synopsis of novel in progress
H.P. Tinker - Paul Gaugain Trapped on the 37th Floor
Ian Dowson - Selected Prose - Added 8/11/04
Ian Hocking - Story - 'Under the Limes' - Story replaced 20/3/05
Iain Bahlaj - Story – ‘Scotland the Brave’
Iain Bahlaj - Story – ‘Hairy Baby’
Iain James Robb - Selected Poetry
Ilona Lagowski-Timoszuk - Selected Poetry
Iman Nielstroy - Story – On Love and Loss
Immanuel Mifsud - Story - 'Ruby' - Updated 30/9/05
Jacci Garside - Poem – ‘Jerusalem’
James O'Shea - Selected Poetry
James Quinton - Selected Poems - Updated 20/3/05
Jamie Lin - Story - Lost
Jamie Lin - Story - A Butterfly Kiss
Jan Litvak - Selected Writing
Jason Fisk - Selected Poems
Jason Jackson - Story – Playing the Game
Jeff Callawy - Selected Poetry
Jenn Ashworth - Story - 'There is Wrapping Paper on My Skirt'
Jennifer VanBuren - Selected Poems
J.L. Williams - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05
Joel Van Noord - Story - 'Los Inciendos'
Joel Van Noord - Story - Women and Reptiles
Joel Van Noord - Story - 'Shrug (Slug)' - Added 31/9/05
Joel Van Noord - Story – One-Up
Joel Van Noord - Story – Baja, Pussy, Drugs and a Fight
Joel Van Noord - Story – Extremes or Mother Fucking Life
J.J. Campbell - Selected Poetry
J.L. Williams - Story - 'A Boy She Knew'
John Dorsey - Poem - 'Ambient Nation: The New Vietnam' - Added 31/12/04
John Dorsey - Story - 'The Saint of the Copa Cabana' - Added 30/9/04
John Glenday - Selected Poems
John Logan - Story - 'Masochism' - Added 31/12/04
John Sweet - Selected Poetry - Updated 15/01/2006
Jonathan Stone - Poem – ‘Tatoos’
Jools Hudson - Story - 'Firestarter Red' - Added 31/9/05
Joseph Ridgwell - Story - Knitting Needles
Joseph Ridgwell - Story - Saturday Night
Joseph Ridgwell - Story - Candice
Joshua James - Story - 'Me, Ryan and the Beaver' - Added 30/9/04
Joshua James - Story - 'The Best Sex I Ever Had' - Redesigned 20/6/04
Judith Alapi Higgins - Story - Nobody's Fault
Judith Alapi Higgins - Story – ‘The Colour of Sunday’
Judith Alapi Higgins - Story – ‘Gaudeamus Igitur’
Judith Alapi Higgins - Story – ‘The 7:45’ - Added 31/3/06
Judith Alapi Higgins - Story – Figs and Chocolates
Justin Barrett - Selected Poems - Added 22/4/04
Justin Hyde - Selected Poetry
Kara Kellar Bell - Story - 'South by South East' - Updated 25/9/04
Kara Kellar Bell - Story - ‘Mermaids’
Kara Kellar Bell - Story - ‘Winter's Tale’
Kara Kellar Bell - Story - ‘Songs of Contentment Ended’ - Added 31/3/06
Karen Macleod - Selected Prose - Added 18/6/04
Karen McKenna - Selected Poems - Added 20/6/05
Karl Kowesky - Story - 'Holly Go Darkly' - Added 20/3/05
Karl Koweski - Selected Poems
Katherine May - Story - 'Ten Ordinary Tales' - Added 20/6/04
Kathleen Kiirik Bryson - Story - 'The Werfox' - Added 23/4/04
Kathleen Kiirik Bryson - Novel Extract – ‘Hosanna by the Black Shards’
Kathleen Kiirik Bryson - Synopsis of Novel in Progress
Kathy Polenberg - Selected Poetry
Keith Armstrong - Selected Poetry - Updated 15/01/2006
Ken Averill - Story – ‘A Case of the Fear’ - replaced by 'The Debtors' - 26/8/04
Kevin Higgins - Selected Poetry - Added 20/6/05
Kevin MacNeil - Poems – ‘Menstrual Unchameleon’ and ‘Every Month’
Kevin Williamson - Selected Poetry
Kiran Bharthapudi - Story - Conversation With a War Veteran
Kiran Bharthapudi - Story – ‘What Went Wrong?’
Kirk Miller - Story – ‘That She May Be Dead’
Kirsti Wishart - Story – ‘The Whisky Dreamers' - Added 20/3/05
K.M. Dersley - Selected Poetry - Added 1/6/04
Kristine Ong Muslim - Selected Poetry
Kyoko Gardiner - Story - 'Songs Over My Sunken Garden' - Added 20/6/05
Kyoko Gardiner - Story – ‘Tuesday Afternoon' - Added 20/6/05
Larry Chiaramonte - Story - 'The Impatient Patient at a New York City Hospital' - Added 31/9/05
Laura Hird - Story - A Day in the Life of a Cove Park Resident
Lee Reynoldson - Story - 'Kayaking for Beginners'
Lee Rourke - Story - I'm Not Going Back There Again, Me
Lee Rourke - Story - 'Joe Blow…' - Added 31/9/05
Leon B. Stern - Story - Titles
Lisa Zaran - Selected Poetry
Liz Finch - Story – ‘Help With Writing Letters’
Lucy Brown - Story - Showtime
Luke Boyd - Selected Poems
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal - Selected Poems - Updated 20/6/05
Lyn Lifshin - Selected Poetry
Maria Grech Ganado - Selected Poems - Updated 30/9/05
Maria Grech Ganado - Story – ‘Inside William’
Marion Arnott - Story - 'A Small Miracle' - Added 31/12/04
Marion Arnott - Story – ‘Angel’
Marc Barber - Story - 'Coat Flying' - Added 29/3/04
Mark Colbourne - Story – ‘Any Card’
Marc Goldin - Story - 'Transformer' - Added 20/3/05
Marc Goldin - Story - 'Plastic Paddy' - Added 14/7/04
Marc Goldin - Selected Poetry - Added 15/01/06
Marc Goldin - Story - Tulum
Marco Montalto - Selected Poetry
Marc Pietrzykowski - Selected Poems
Marilynn M. Wilkins - Story – ‘Curve Ball’ - Added 15/01/06
Mark Brown - Story – ‘The Cows’
Mark Edwards - Selected Poetry
Mark Fleming - Story - Dragons
Mark Fleming - Story - White Gloves
Mark Fleming - Story – ‘The Double of My Cousin From Fife’
Mark Gallacher - Story - 'Bluebell' - Added 20/3/05
Mark Gallacher - Story - 'Grace Williams' - Added 30/6/04
Mark Gallacher - Story – I Know You
Mark Gallacher - Story – The Question
Mark Howard Jones - Story - Becalmed
Mark SaFranco - Story - 'The Laugher of the Clown' - Added 31/9/05
Mark Turley - Story - ‘On Road’
Mark Vanner - Selected Poetry
Mark Vanner - Story – Love in D Minor 7#
Mark Williamson - Story – ‘Physical Grafitti’
Martin Blyth - Selected Poems - Added 19/6/04
Martin Green - Story - 'Intimations' - Added 31/12/04
Mary McCluskey - Story - 'Death Wish' - Added 20/6/04
Matt Hassell - Story - 'Chef' - Added 31/12/04
Matt Hassell - Story - April
Matt Hassell - Story - 'Zemlinsky Must Die' - Added 15/01/06
Matthew Devereux - Selected Poetry - Added 31/12/04
Matthew Firth - Story – ‘Exodus 10’
Matthew Firth - Story - 'Smooth With the Ladies' - Added 30/9/05
Matt Smith - Selected Poems
Maurice Oliver - Selected Poetry
Max Dunbar - Story – ‘Memories of a Wild Weekend in Sheffield’
M. Blake - Story - 'It Comes Back' - Added 20/6/05
M. Blake - Story - 'Clark and Corona' - New story added 24/8/04
Megan Hall - Story - 'The Best Days of Your Life'
Megan Hall - Story - Schemies and Jambo Cunts
Megan Hall - Story – ‘Playground Twist’
Megan Hall - Story – ‘Soul on Ice’
Megan Hall - Story – Starethrough Eyes
Megan Hall - Story – Let it Bleed
Megan Hornbuckle - Stories – ‘At the Back of the Queue’ and ‘The Chicken at the Door’
Melissa Mann - Story - 'Road-Kill'
Melissa Mann - Story - 'Floater'
M. Frias-May - Story - Groundhog Day, 1984
M. Frias-May - Story – ‘The Desert Rose’ - Added 31/3/06
M. Frias-May - Story – Pico
Michael Gardiner - Story - 'The Edinburgh Festival' - Added 31/9/05
Michael Gardiner - Story - 'Laptopia' - Added 31/9/05
Michael Gardiner - Story – Gap Year
Michael Internicola - Selected Poetry - Added 13/9/04
Michael James Treacy - Selected Poems
Michael Keenaghan - Story - Life Sentence
Michael Keenaghan - Story – ‘Money Power Respect’ - Added 31/3/06
Michael Keenaghan - Story – Tottenham Forever
Michael Keenaghan - Story – Gangsters
Michael Keenaghan - Story – Fuck That for a Game of Soldiers
Michael Lee Johnson - Selected Poetry
Michael Paul Ladanyi - Selected Poetry - Added 20/3/05
Michael Loughrey - Story - 'Geophagy'
Michelle McGrane - Selected Poetry
Michelle Reale - Story - 'His Mother's Son'
Michelle Walsh - Selected Poems
Mikael Covey - Story - 'Momma Can You Hear Me?'
Mike Boyle - Story - Nick's Shadow
Mike Boyle - Story – ‘The House of the Rising Sun' - Added 20/3/05
Mike Estabrook - Selected Poetry
Mikel K - Novel Extract - The Delivery Guy - Added 9/4/04
Miles J. Bell - Selected Poems
Misha Cahill - Story - 'Like in Bed'
Misti Rainwater-Lites - Selected Poetry
Moira McPartlin - Story - 'Torque'
Mona McKinlay - Story - Selected Prose
Morag McDowell - Story - 'The Love You Need' - Story added 20/6/05
Muhammad Nasrullah Khan - Story - 'The Dying Man' - Added 14/6/04
Murray Robertson - Story – ‘Glesga’
Nathan Hamlett - Story - 'Paintball' - Added 31/9/05
Nathan Tyree - Selected Poems
Neil Ayres - Story - 'What Sex the Sky?' - Added 31/12/04
Neil Ayres - Story - 'Changeling' - Added 29/4/04
Neil Cocker - Story - 'Lithuanian Homesick Blues'
Neil Cocker - Story - 'Blood Pudding' - Added 20/6/04
Neil Cocker - Story – Zombie-Boy and the Secret Engineers
Neil Cocker - Story – Dustmetal Gray
Neville Clay - Selected Poems
Niamh Ó Leocháin - Stories – ‘Thoughts of Someone Who Cannot Speak’ and ‘Black Label’
Niamh Ó Leocháin - Selected Poetry - Added 31/9/05
Nicholas Morgan - Story - Tis the Season
Nicholas Osbourne - Story – ‘The Incredible Flight of Birdman’ - Added 31/3/06
Nick Dockerty - Selected Poetry - Added 19/9/04
Nick Dockerty - Story - 'Radox' - Added 20/6/04
Nicole Taylor - Story - 'Better' - Added 30/3/06
Nora Nadjarian - Selected Poetry - Added 20/6/05
Nora Nadjarian - Selected Prose - Added 31/3/065
Norbert Bugeja - Selected Poetry 2
Owen Roberts - Selected Poems - Updated 31/12/04
Papa Osmubal - Selected Poetry - Updated 20/3/05
Patricia Golledge - Poem – ‘The Rugby Pitch Bathed in Wintry Sun’
Paul Anthony Scott - Selected Poetry - Added 24/8/04
Paul Houghton - Story - 'Projection' - Added 31/12/04
Paul Houghton - Story – ‘The House at the Edge of the World’
Paul Kavanagh - Story - Sawol
Paul Kavanagh - Story - 'The Unfinished Story'
Paul Kavanagh - Story - 'Buffa' - Added 31/9/05
Paul Kavanagh - Story – Ten Pence
Paul Kavanagh - Story – Prison
Paul Kavanagh - Story – X
Paul Martin - Story - 'Shattered' - Added 24/4/04
Paul Summers - Selected Poems
Peter McCabe - Story - 'In Limbo' - Added 31/3/06
Philip Quinn - Story - 'The Preserved Cowboy Dreams of a Cum-Filled Sky' - Added 20/3/05
The Poet Spiel - Selected Poetry
Polly Clark - Selected Poetry
Rachel Fox - Selected Poetry
Rachel Lawrence - Story - 'The Swing' - Added 31/9/05
Ralph Lopez - Story - 'Quebec City' - Added 5/6/04
Ranjit Sinha Roy - Story - 'The Distant Star' - Added 20/6/05
Ranjit Sinha Roy - Story - 'The Roadside Story' - Redesigned 20/6/04
Ranjit Sinha Roy - Story - 'Story of a Housewife' - Added 31/3/06
R.D. Larson - Story - 'Lipstick and Powder' - Added 31/3/06
Richard Cabut - Selected Poetry
Richard Cabut - Story - 'Get the Picture' - Added 20/3/05
Richard Cabut - Story - 'Get It On' - Added 30/9/05
Richard J. Parfitt - Story – Iris
Rik Haslam - Story - Black Ties
R.K. Wallace - Selected Poetry
Robert Ciesla - Story - 'The Scent of a Cherished Robe' - Added 31/12/04
Robert Ciesla - Story - 'Petting Rabbits' - Added 17/6/04
Robert Ewing - Story – Duncan Westwater, First Minister
Robert Scott Leyse - Story – Why Waste English Setters on Dog Shows
Rob Marshall - Selected Poetry
Rob Marshall - Story – ‘Robbie Bach and I' - Added 20/3/05
Rob Plath - Selected Poetry
Rob Rosen - Stories - 'Shut Your Eyes and Pray' and 'Bunny and Hoppy' - Updated 8/11/04
Rob Rosen - Story – ‘When You Wish Upon a Scar’ - Added 31/3/06
Rob Woodard - Selected Poetry
Rodge Glass - Story - 'Extract from a Life' - Added 20/6/05
Rodge Glass - Novel Extract – The Apple
Rodge Glass - Selected Poetry
Ronald Baatz - Selected Poetry
Ronald Collins - Selected Poetry
Rosalind Wyllie - Story - 'Defying Gravity'
Rosalind Wyllie - Story – ‘Departures’
Rosanne Rabinowitz - Story – ‘These Boots' - Added 20/3/05
Ross Wilson - Story - 'Pick Pick Pick' - Added 8/11/04
Ross Wilson - Story – ‘Weird Goings on with the Heads of Other People’
Ruben Palma - Story – ‘Isabel’s Performance' - Added 20/3/05
Russell Bittner - Story - Publish or Perish
Russell Bittner - Selected Poems - Added 20/6/05
R.W. Hurst - Selected Poems
Safaa Ennagar - Amoeba
Salman Shaheen - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05
Sam Beebe - Story - 'The Arsonist'
Sandra Graham - Biro Babes - Stories - ‘Chelsea Hotel Revisited’ and ‘Icons’
Sarah Chair - Story - 'The Kingdom of the Blind' - Added 20/6/05
Sarah Roberts - Story - The Love Scene
Scott Fraser - Story - Here I Sit
Sean McGahey - Story - Shudder
Sean McGahey - Story - 'Last Act' - Added 20/3/05
Sean McGahey - Story - '1-800-Spunk' - Added 31/3/06
Shane Allison - Selected Poems - Updated 20/3/05
Shug Hanlon - Selected Prose
Stanley Borg - Poem - 'A City Beseeched' - Added 7/4/04
Stephen J. Golds - Story - 'Esmerelda'
Stephen J. Golds - Selected Stories - New story added 20/6/05
Stephen J. Golds - Novel Extract – Sunday, Sunday
Stephen J. Golds - Story – Old
Stephen J. Golds - Story – Warm Lager
Stephen Shieber - Story - 'Sunday Lunch'
Stephen Shieber - Story – Being Normal
The Poet Spiel - Prose Poem - Sammy
Steve Ely - Story - American Patriot
Steve Ely - Story - Sammy
Steven Gillis - Story - 'In Elba Above Our Heads'
Steven Porter - Selected Poems - Added 30/9/05
Steven Porter - Two Stories
Steve Smith - Story – ‘The Nearest Thing’
Steve Smith - Story – ‘The Outsider’
Steve Wheeler - Story - 'The Piper' - Added 31/9/05
Steve Wheeler - Story - 'The North Cormorant' - Added 31/9/05
Stuart Thorogood - Story – ‘The Other Way’
Suhayl Saadi - Story – ‘Extra Time’
Susan Culver - Selected Poetry
Susan Nacsa - Selected Poetry
Tania Hershman - Story - 'Sunspots'
Tara Hanks - Novel Prologue - 'Wicked Baby' - Added 5/6/04
Terry Rogers - Story – Lessons to the Editor
Thom Jacques - Story - Eggs
Tom Murray - Selected Poetry
Toni Davidson - Story - Like a Pendulum in Glue
Tony O'Neill - Story - 'Notes From a Shipwrecked Harbour'
Tony O'Neill - Two Stories - Added 20/3/05
Tony O'Neill - Story - 'Nothing Shocking' - Added 20/11/04
Tony O'Neill - Selected Poetry - Added 20/1/06
Tracey Emerson - Story - Under the Gloss
Tracy Patrick - Story – ‘Growing Pains’ - Added 31/3/06
Trev Taylor - Stories – ‘Sophie’ and ‘Slippers on the Table’
Vanja Kovacic - Story - Rotten Like the Gutter
Wayne Wolfson - Selected Prose - Updated 4/10/06
William Taylor Jr. - Selected Poetry - Updated 20/6/05
William Taylor Jr. - Story - 'The Wallet' - Added 20/6/05
Willie Smith - Selected Prose - Added 20/6/05
Willie Smith - Selected Prose - Added 31/3/06
Zack Wilson - Story - 'Sheffield Fragments'
Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Hart Crane By Moonlight'
Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Happy Birthday' - Added 31/9/05
Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Marvell’s Lovers' - Added 31/9/05
Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Uncle Otto' - Added 31/3/06
Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Perdido'
BOOK REVIEWS
'Dear Laura: Letters from a Mother to Her Daughter' - June & Laura Hird - #
'There Are Little Kindoms' - Kevin Barry - #
'The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 1 - ed. Philip Gourevitch - #
'The Observations' - Jane Harris - #
'Everyman' - Philip Roth - #
'Down the Angel & Up the Holloway' - ed. Lane Ashfeldt - #
'The Letters That Never Came' - Mauricio Rosencof - #
'Stuart, A Life Backwards' - Alexander Masters - #
'Stalin's Wars' - Geoffrey Roberts - #
'What Was Lost' - Catherine O'Flynn - #
'Hotel California' - Barney Hoskyns - #
'A Clean Sweep?' - T. David Curp - #
'Graffiti My Soul' - Niven Govinden - #
'Come Here Cowboy' - Spiel - #
'Hard Man' - Allan Guthrie - #
'Eating Myself' - Candida Crewe - #
'How Very Interesting' - Peter Cook Appreciation Society - #
'Phobic' - ed. Andy Murray - #
'Suburban Pornography and Other Stories' - Matthew Firth - here
'These Are Our Lives: Stories' - ed. Declan Meade -here
'The Raw Shark Texts' - Steven Hall -here
'Remainder' - Tom McCarthy -here
'Bird of the Devil' - Edited and Illustrated by Edward Summerton - here
'Decapolis: Tales from Ten Cities' - ed. Maria Crossan - here
'Hope and Other Urban Tales' - Laura Hird - here
'Black Girl/White Girl' - Joyce Carol Oates - here
'Magnetic North: New Writing by North East Writers' - ed. Claire Malcolm - here
'Empty Frames' - D.B. Cox - here
'The Scent of Your Breath' - Melissa P. -here
'Brotherhood of the Grape' - Dan Fante - here
'The Game' - Neil Strauss - here
'Don't Think of an Elephant' - George Lakoff - here
'Gilead' - Marilynne Robinson - here
'Any Human Heart' - William Boyd - here
'An Evolutionary Psychology of Sleep & Dreams' - Patrick McNamara - here
'After the Quake' - Haruki Murakami - here
'The Collected Stories' - Grace Paley - here
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Crack of Doom - Liza Granville
The Edgier Waters: New Writing from Literary Upstarts - ed. A Stevens
The View From Castle Rock - Alice Munro
Hide & Seek - Clare Sambrook
Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies - Anthology
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
Unbuttoning the Violin - Various
Escalator - Michael Gardiner
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs - Irvine Welsh
John Clare: A Biography - Jonathan Bate
In the Fold - Rachel Cusk
From Caves of Rotten Teeth - A. Igoni Barrett
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
Kingdom Come - J.G. Ballard
IV A Decade of Curious People & Dangerous Ideas - Chuck Klosterman
Paula Spencer - Roddy Doyle
Nazi Anti-Semitism, From Prejudice to the Holocaust - Philippe Burrin
Triquorum One - ed. Christopher Teague
The Collected Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life & TImes of the Notorious Novel Candy - Nile Southern
The Selected Stories - John O'Hara
Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller
52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity - Jeffrey Yamaguchi
The Complete Stories' - Zora Neale Hurston
Kidulthood - Noel Clarke & Jim Eldridge
The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven - Alan Warner
The Last Days of Johnny North - David Swann
The Accidental - Ali Smith
The Lowest Level - Chris Major
The Nine Muses - ed. Forrest Aguirre & Deborah Layne
The Bullet Trick - Louise Welsh
Parenthesis: The Next in Text - ed. Ra Page
Apathy & Other Small Victories - Paul Neilan
The i Tetralogy - Mathias B. Freese
The Dead Hour - Denise Mina
The Yage Letters Redux - William S. Burroughs
Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization - Various
Poe's Lighthouse - Ed. Christopher Conlon
Three Things About Me - Aliya Whitelely
The Writer's Life - Al Alvarez
Saturday's Child - Ray Banks
Visits to the Flea Circus - Nick Jackson
This Life - Karel Schoeman
North of Sunset - Henry Baum
Grace and Truth - Jennifer Johnston
The Birds & Other Stories - Daphne Du Maurier
45 Dangerous Minds: The Most Intense Interviews from Seconds Magazine - ed. Steven Blush & George Petros
Borrowed Body - Valerie Mason-John
Selected Stories - Alice Munro
’Are You She?’ by Lesley Glaister - Reviewed by Megan Hornbuckle - Added 31/03/06
’Mean Mode Median’ by Aliya Whiteley - Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite - Added 31/03/06
’Moondust’ by Cleveland W. Gibson - Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite - Added 31/03/06
’Pieces for the Left Hand’ by J. Robert Lennon - Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite - Added 31/03/06
’Digging the Vein’ by Tony O’Neill - Reviewed by Zsolt Alapi - Added 31/03/06
’Hating Olivia’ by Mark SaFranko - Reviewed by Mike Ferraro - Added 31/03/06
’Mother Missing’ by Joyce Carol Oates - Reviewed by Gary Couzens - Added 15/01/06
’Misteress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim’ by Mary V. Dearborn - Reviewed by Michelle McGrane - Added 31/03/06
’Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African’ by Liz McGregor - Reviewed by Michelle McGrane - Added 31/03/06
’One Pill Makes You Smaller’ by Lisa Dierbeck - Reviewed by Michelle McGrane - Added 15/01/06
’No God But God’ by Reza Aslan - Reviewed by Salman Shaheen - Added 15/01/06
’Ellipsis 1: Comma Modern Shorts’ - Reviewed by Robin M. Buehler - Added 15/01/06
’Kittens in the Boiler’ by Delphine LeCompte - Reviewed by Paul Kavanagh - Added 15/01/06
'Imagined Corners' by Keith Armstrong - Reviewed by Paul Summers - Added 30/9/05
'Demo' by Alison Miller - Reviewed by Stuart Blackwood - Added 30/9/05
'Bleeding From My Psalms' by Debbie Kirk - Reviewed by Dan Provost - Added 30/9/05
’No More Heroes’ by J.R. Endeacott - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 15/01/06
'The Stone Fields' by Courtney Angela Brkic - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 15/01/06
'The Reckoning' by Sue Walker - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 30/9/05
'Curious Scotland' by George Rosie - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 30/9/05
'Phoenix in a Bottle' by Lilia & Murdoch MacDonald - Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside - Added 30/9/05
'Corksucker' by Dan Fante - Reviewed by Tony O'Neill - Added 20/6/05
'Incendiary' by Chris Cleave - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 30/9/05
'Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft' by Peter Levenda - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 30/9/05
'No Country for Old Men' by Cormac McCarthy - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 30/9/05
'Two-Way Split' by Allan Guthrie - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 20/6/05
'Children at War' by Peter Moore Smith - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 20/6/05
'Los Angeles' by P.W. Singer - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 20/6/05
'Success... And How to Avoid it' by Mat Coward - Reviewed by Peter Tennant - Added 20/3/05
'Odd' by Charles P. Ries - Reviewed by Kris Rued-Clark - Added 20/3/05
'Passing for Blue' by D.B. Cox - Reviewed by Laura Hird - Added 20/3/05
’Born Free’ by Laura Hird - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 31/03/06
’Poems for the Retired Nihilist’ edited by Graham Bendel - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 31/03/06
’One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed’ by Melissa P. - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 15/01/06
'Women as Lovers' by Elfriede Jelinek - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05
'The Piano Teacher' by Elfriede Jelinek - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05
'Chicken Bones' by Michael Paul Ladanyi - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05
'Frank O’Hara: Selected Poems' ed. by Donald Allen - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 30/9/05
'Notice' by Heather Lewis - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05
'Book of Resurrection'by Mark Hartenbach - Reviewed by D.B. Cox - Added 20/3/05
’The Complete Stories’ by Truman Capote - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 31/03/06
’A Multitude of Sins’ by Richard Ford - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 31/03/06
’Tropic of Cancer’ and ‘Tropic of Capricorn’ by Henry Miller - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 15/01/06
’The Collected Stories’ by Evan S. Connell - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 15/01/06
’Mr Bridge’ and ‘Mrs Bridge’ by Evan S. Connell - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 15/01/06
'The Stories of John Cheever' by John Cheever - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 30/9/05
'Sanctuary' by William Faulkner - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/6/05
'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/3/05
'Girl Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/3/05
'Getting Mother's Body' by Suzan-Lori Parks - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/3/05
'How We Should Rule Ourselves' by Alasdair Gray & Adam Tomkins - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 15/01/06
'Sexual Healing' by Jill Nelson - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 30/9/05
'The Incredible Adam Spark' by Alan Bissett - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 30/9/05
'Who Killed Mr Drum?' by Sylvester Stein - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 20/6/05
'Hell of a Journey' by Mike Cawthorne - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 20/3/05
'Owen Noone and the Marauder' by Douglas Cowie - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 31/12/04
'Out of Mind' by Sam Hayes - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Reviewed 31/12/04
'Shoe Fly Baby: The Asham Award Short Stories' - edited by Kate Pullinger - Reviewed by Ryan Williams - Added 31/2/04
'Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace' by Prakash Kona - Reviewed by Tim West - Added 30/9/05
'The Eye of Cybele' by Daniel Chavarria - Reviewed by Tim West - Added 20/6/05
'The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh' by Chian Lee - Reviewed by Tim West - Added 31/12/04
'The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley - Reviewed by Tim Foster - Added 31/12/04
'Doing It' by Melvin Burgess - Reviewed by Rachel Evans - Added 20/3/05
'Mop Men: California's Crime Scene Cleaners' - by Alan Emmins - Reviewed by Rachel Evans - Added 19/11/04
'Like the Night (Revisted)' - by C.P. Lee - Reviewed by Ecky Lum - Added 8/11/04
’Betrayal’ by Karin Alvtegen - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 31/03/06
’Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen’ by Arielle Eckstut - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 15/01/06
'The Secrets She Keeps' by Helen Cross - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 30/9/05
'The In-between World of Vikram Lall' by Kathy Watson - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 20/6/05
'The Devil Kissed Her: The Life of Mary Lamb' by Kathy Watson - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 2/10/04
'Observing Life While Drinking Rat Milk' by Dan Provost - Reviewed by Brian Cuninghame - Added 12/9/04
'Nothing Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith' - Reviewed by Ron Collins - Added 16/9/04
'The Price of Salt' by Patricia Highsmith - Reviewed by Ron Collins - Added 2/9/04
'The Sound of White Ants' by Brian Howell - Reviewed by Robert Ciesla - Added 30/8/04
'London Revenant' by Conrad Williams - Reviewed by Gary McMahon - Added 5/8/04
'Divine Filth: The Lost Writings of Georges Bataille' - Reviewed by David Johnson - Added 20/6/05
'The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche' - Reviewed by David Johnson - Added 27/7/04
'Gilead' by Marilynne Robinson - Reviewed by Mark Gallacher - Added 30/9/04
'The Book of Illusions' by Paul Auster - Reviewed by Mark Gallacher - Added 15/7/04
'Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton' by Stewart Home - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/6/05
'1982 Janine' by Alasdair Gray - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 30/9/05
'Only Anarchists are Pretty' by Mick O'Shea - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/3/05
'Wheels Out of Gear' by Dave Thompson - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/3/05
'The End of Elsewhere: Travels Amongst the Tourists' by Taras Grescoe - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/3/05
'Voyageurs' by Margaret Elphinstone - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 30/9/04
'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 22/9/04
'The Rum Diary' by Hunter S. Thompson - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 22/6/04
’Beyond Black' by Hilary Mantel - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/03/06
’Protestant Boy' by Geoffrey Beattie - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/03/06
’Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore' by Bettany Hughes - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/03/06
’Travel Light' by Naomi Mitchison - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 15/01/06
’We Need to Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 15/01/06
'Under African Skies: Modern African Short Stories' ed. by Charles R. Larson - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 30/9/05
’Lord of Illusions' by Dilys Rose - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 30/9/05
'The People's Act of Love' by James Meek - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/6/05
'The History of Love' by Nicole Krauss - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05
'The Ice Museum' by Joanna Kavenna - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05
'Mad Mary Lamb' by Susan Tyler Hitchcock - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05
'Runaway' by Alice Munro - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05
'McCrae's Batallion: The Story of the 16th Royal Scots' by Jack Alexander - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/12/04
'Telling Tales' edited by Nadine Gordimer - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/12/04
'A Bit on the Side' by William Trevor - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 7/10/04
'The Wee Book of Calvin: Air-Kissing in the North-East' by Bill Duncan - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 18/9/04
'Vivaldi and the Number 3' by Ron Butlin - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 13/9/04
'Boy A' by Jonathan Trigell - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 7/7/04
'The McGovan Casebook: Experiences of a Detective in Victorian Edinburgh' by James McGovan - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 2/7/04
'Fear of de Sade' by Bernardo Carvalho - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 16/6/04
'A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali' by Gil Courtemanche - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 2/6/04
'Tamburlaine Must Die' by Louise Welsh - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 23/5/04
’An Iraqi in Paris’ - by Samuel Shimon - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/03/06
’Purgatory’ - by Paul Auster - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 15/01/06
’Sardines and Oranges: Short Stories From North Africa' - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 15/01/06
'Whispers in the Dark' by Liza Granville - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 30/9/05
'Death of a Prima Donna' by Brina Svit - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 30/9/05
'Secrets: The Scotsman & Orange Short Story Award 2005' ed. by Janice Galloway - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 30/9/05
'Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS' by Helga Schneider - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Incognita' by William Congreve - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Almanacs' by Jen Hadfield - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'The Wall' by Jean-Paul Sartre - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'The Point of Splitting' by Sally Read - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Stevenson Under the Palm Trees' by Alberto Manguel - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Ghosts at Cockcrow' by Stewart Conn - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Until the Final Hour' by Traudl Junge - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Life Mask' by Jackie Kay - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'Stillness' by Courtney Angela Brkic - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05
'The Duel' by Giacomo Casanova - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Nights of Akhenaton' by Agnes Nemes Nagy - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - font color="red">Added 20/3/05
'The Devil's Pool' by George Sand - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Apology for a Murder' by Lorenzino de' Medici - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Stasiland' by Anna Funder - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'The Tree House' by Kathleen Jamie - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Ground Water' by Matthew Hollis - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05
'Berlin Interiors' edited by Angelika Taschen - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/12/04
'Jar City' by Arnuldar Indridason - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/12/04
'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/12/04
'Empire of the Wolves by Jean-Christophe Grange - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 8/11/04
'Being Alive' - Edited by Neil Astley - Added 8/11/04
'The Knuckle End' - Edited by Adrian Searle - Added 8/11/04
'My Name is Light' by Elsa Osorio - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 8/10/04
'Give Me Songs for Lovers' by Irina Denezhkina - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/8/04
'Transformation' by Mary Shelley - reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 24/8/04
'Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire' by Ruy Castro - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 13/8/04
'North: The Scotsman & Orange Short Story Award 2004' - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 6/8/04
'The Quest for Charles Rennie Mackintosh' by John Cairney - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 1/8/04
'Bad Attitudes' by Agnes Owens - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - 29/7/04
'Tropical Truth' by Caetano Veloso - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 16/7/04
'Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith' by Andrew Wilson - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 3/7/04
'The Lover's Watch' by Aphra Behn - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 28/6/04
'Whoever You Choose to Love' by Colette Paul - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 23/6/04
'Haunted Weather' by David Toop - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 12/6/04
'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 7/6/04
'The Butcher' by Alina Reyes - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 18/5/04
'Without Blood' by Alessandro Baricco - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 17/5/04
'Night and Fear' by Cornell Woolrich - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 20/6/05
'The Elastic Book of Numbers' - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 20/3/05
'The Golem by Gustav Meyrink - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 31/12/04
'Terror Tales #2' - Ed. John B. Ford & Paul Kane - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 8/7/04
'Blag' by Tony Saint - Reviewed by Laurence Inman - Added 11/7/04
’The Fahrenheit Twins’ By Michel Faber - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 15/01/06
'Cloud Atlas' By David Mitchell - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 20/6/05
'The Book of Voices' Edited by Michael Butscher - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 20/6/05
'City, Silver, Sister' by Jachym Topol - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 31/12/04
'Moon Beaver ' by Andrew Hook - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 19/7/04
'The Terror from Beyond Middle England' by Sarah Crabtree - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 19/7/04
'Refusal Shoes' by Tony Saint - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 28/6/04
'Castles Made of Sand' by Gwyneth Jones - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 15/5/04
'Guide for the Perplexed' by Gilad Atzmon - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 11/5/04
'Not the End of the World' by Kate Atkinson - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 10/5/04
'The London Silence' by Stephen Moran - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 20/3/05
'The Last Flight of the Flamingo' by Mia Couto - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 15/8/04
'Ella Minnow Pea' by Mark Dunn - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 3/8/04
'The Nautical Chart' by Arturo Perez-Reverte - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 19/7/04
'Fisher of Devils' by Steve Redwood - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 31/5/04
'Drinking Coffee Elsewhere' by ZZ Packer - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 7/4/04
'Visits from the Drowned Girl' by Steven Sherrill - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 20/3/05
'Come Closer' by Sara Gran - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 20/3/05
'Remembered America' - The Poems of Dick McBride - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 6/8/04
'American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 24/7/04
'Kiss Me Softly, Amy Turtle' by Paul McDonald - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 5/7/04
'Nicolo's Gifts' by Neil Ayres - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 6/4/04
‘In This Block There Lives a Slag’ by Bill Broady - Reviewed by Paul Houghton
‘I Was a Murder Junkie: The Last Days of GG Allin’ by Evan Cohen - Reviewed by Graham Rae
‘Weasels in a Box’ by John Pierson - Reviewed by Graham Rae
‘Even a Daughter is Better Than Nothing’ by Mykel Board - Reviewed by Graham Rae
‘I A Me-Ist’ by Mykel Board - Reviewed by Graham Rae
‘Silent Bob Speaks: The Collected Writings of Kevin Smith’ by Kevin Smith - Reviewed by Graham Rae
‘Haunted’ by Chuck Palahniuk - Reviewed by Graham Rae
‘Irvine Welsh’ by Aaron Kelly - Reviewed by Graham Rae
‘J.G. Ballard’ by Andrzej Gasiorek - Reviewed by Graham Rae
‘Sheepshagger’ by Niall Griffiths - Reviewed by Graham Rae
’Tilt’ by Iain Bahlaj - Reviewed by Matthew Firth
'Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco' by Daryl Easlea - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 20/3/05
'Perfume' by Patrick Suskind - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 31/12/04
'Try' by Dennis Cooper - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 22/9/04
'Night Visits' by Ron Butlin - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 16/9/04
'The Sensational Alex Harvey' by John Neil Munro - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 24/8/04
'You're an Animal, Viskovitz' by Alessandro Boffa - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 7/6/04
'The One' by Paul Reed - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj
'Doctor Mooze' by Panton di Villa - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 25/5/04
'The Week You Weren't Here' by Charles Blackstone - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 19/5/04
'Brass' by Helen Walsh - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 12/4/04
'Sheepshagger' by Niall Griffiths - Reviewed by Graham Rae
'Tilt' by Iain Bahlaj - Reviewed by Matthew Firth
'Slouching Towards Nirvana' by Charles Bukowski - Reviewed by Matthew Firth
'In This Block There Lives a Slag' by Bill Broady - Reviewed by Paul Houghton
WRITING EVENT REVIEWS
Chuck Palahniuk - Barnes & Noble, Skokie, IL - 09/06/06
THE DEVIL HAS ALL THE BEST TUNES
Beach Boys - Various - #
Ketil Bjornstad & David Darling - Epigraphs - #
Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage - #
Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl - #
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain - #
Depeche Mode - Somebody - #
Bob Dylan - Meet Me in the Morning - #
Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed - #
The Fall - The Theme From Sparta F.C. - #
Iron Maiden - Live After Death - #
Joy Division - Atmosphere - #
Mr Bungle - Disco Volante - #
Nickelback - If Everyone Cared - #
Gram Parsons - The New Soft Shoe - #
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond - #
Alan Price - Under the Sun - #
Queen - We Are the Champions - #br>
Bonnie Raitt - Nick of TIme - #
The Ronettes - An Ode to Nedra Talley - #
Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun - #
The Tindersticks - No More Affairs - #
Underworld - Born Slippy - #
Various - 3 Favourite Albums - #
Scott Walker - ...Sings Jacques Brel - #
J.S Bach / Charles Gounod - Ave Maria - here
Chic – ‘Le Freak’ - here
The Clash – ‘Rock the Casbah’ - here
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Sugar-Coated Sour - here
Doctor Feelgood – Roxette - here
Bob Dylan – ‘Blonde on Blonde’ - here
Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda Da Vidda - here
Jamie T. – Sheila - here
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia - here
Kraftwerk – The Model - here
Ronnie Lane – Harvest Home - here
John Lennon – Imagine - here
Screeching Weasel – Hey Suburbia - here
Television – Marquee Moon - here
Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land - here
Neil Young – A Man Needs A Maid - here
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Babes in Toyland - Catatonic
Chet Baker - Almost Blue
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Byrds - Wasn't Born to Follow
Johnny Cash - I See a Darkness
Leonard Cohen - Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
John Coltrane - Like Someone in Love
Elbow - Station Approach
Jimi Hendrix - Star-Spangled Banner
Ronnie Hilton - A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
Landscape - Norman Bates
Little Richard - Lucille
Listen With Sarah - Blue Parsley
Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Alanis Morissette - All I Really Want
Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
New Order - Technique
Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
Ronettes - Be My Baby
Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Cat Stevens - Father and Son
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Stooges - Search and Destroy
Igor Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
Subway Sect - Ambition
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Various - A Soundtrack to My Life
Various - Indie-Folk'
Various - My Two Minutes Are Up
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
MUSIC REVIEWS
'Ballads of the Book' - Various - #
'Live Circus' - John Cale - #
'Live at Massey Hall' - Neil Young - #
'Sex Change' - Trans Am - #
'Fall of the House of Even' - Even in Blackouts - #
'Orphans - Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards' - Tom Waits - here
'Jarvis' - Jarvis Cocker - here
'Keeping the Faith: A Creation Records Dance Compilation - here
Yes, Virginia - The Dresden Dolls
The Devil Has All the Best Tunes - NEW SECTION
Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids
Last Night, As I Was Wandering - Barry McCormack
Marion Arnott's review of John Nichol and Hilary Bell’s ‘War and Glaur’ - here
Mathew West's review of Queens of the Stone Age’s ‘Lullabies to Paralyze’ - here
Mathew West's review of Bright Eyes’ 'I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning' - here
Graham Rae's review of 'The Dwarves Must Die' - here
Megan Hornbuckle's review of 'Faded Seaside Glamour' by The Delays - here
Peter Murphy's review of Neil Diamond’s ‘Twelve
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