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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'


THE NEW REVIEW - Index


BOOK REVIEWS

'Writing At the Edge' - ed. Zsolt Alapi here
'Baby Zero' - Emer Martin here
'I Crossed the Minch' - Louis MacNeice here
'Lounge Lizard' - Mark SaFranko here
'In a Room Darkened' - Kevin Williamson here
'Night and the City' - Gerald Kersh here
'Foolish Mortals' - Jennifer Johnston here
'No One Belongs Here More Than You' - Miranda July here
'A Pretty Face' - Raphael Reig here
'Black Rabbit and Other Stories' - Salvatore Difalco here
'The Gravedigger's Daughter' - Joyce Carol Oates here
'If You Liked School, You'll Love Work' - Irvine Welsh here
'Chronicle in Stone' - Ismail Kadare here
'Darling' - Jackie Kay here
'The Legal Fiction...' - Lowell B. Komie here
'The Bone Garden' - Tess Gerritsen here
'On Chesil Beach' - Ian McEwan here
'Demon Eyes' - LH Maynard here
'Saints of Hysteria' - D. Duhamel, M Seaton here
'Park City, New and Selected Stories' - Ann Beattie here
'Gold' - Dan Rhodes here
'Love Letters From My Death-Bed' - Cynthia Rogerson here
'Songs from the Shooting Gallery' - Tony O'Neill here
'Poor People' - William T. Vollmann here
'The Blackest Bird' - Joel Rose here
'Generation Loss' - Elizabeth Hand here
'The Testament of Gideon Mack' - James Robertson here
'In My Skin' - Kate Holden here
'Dollhouse' - Mike Boyle here
'The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith' - Douglas MacGowan here
'Apples' - Richard Milward here
'Paraphernalia' - Joanne Limburg here
'This Life, This Life' - Andrew Greig here
'Arlington Park' - Rachel Cusk here
'In a Town Called Mundomuerto' - Randall Silvis here
'The Angry Gods' - Wendy Brandmark here
'Abandoned and Forgotten' - Evelyne Tannehill here
'The Moving Coffin' - Ed Gorman here
'It's Not News, It's Fark...' - Drew Curtis here
'South of the River' - Blake Morrison here
'Drugs are Nice' - Lisa Crystal Carver here
'Fired: Tales of the Canned, Cancelled, Downsized & Dismissed' - Annabelle Gurwitch here
'The English Harem' - Anthony McCarten here
'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


10cc - Hotel#
ACDC  -  Hell's Bells  -  #NEW
Louis Armstrong  -  What A Wonderful World  -  #
Asian Dub Foundation  -  Rafi's Revenge  -  #
Babes in Toyland  -  Catatonic  -  #
JS Bach / Charles Gounod  -  Ave Maria  -  #
Charlie Daniels Band  -  The Devil Went Down to Georgia  -  #
Chet Baker  -  Almost Blue  -  #
Beach Boys  -  Pet Sounds  -  #
The Beatles  -  Let It Be  -  #
The Byrds  -  Wasn't Born to Follow  -  #
Johnny Cash  -  I See A Darkness  -  #
Chemical Brothers  -  Hey Boy Hey Girl  -  #
Chic  -  Le Freak  -  #
The Clash  -  Rock the Casbah  -  #
The Cocteau Twins  -  Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops  -  # - NEW
Leonard Cohen  -  Seems So Long Ago, Nancy  -  #
John Coltrane  -  Like Someone In Love  -  #
Charlie Daniels Band  -  The Devil Went Down to Georgia  - # - NEW
Ketil Bjornstad & David Darling  -  Epigraphs  -  #
Dido  -  White Flag  - #
The Dillinger Escape Plan  -  Sugar-Coated Sour  -  #
Doctor Feelgood  -  Roxette  -  #
The Drifters  -  This Magic Moment  - #NEW
Bob Dylan  -  Ballad of a Thin Man  -  #
Bob Dylan  -  Blonde on Blonde  -  #
Bob Dylan  -  Meet Me In the Morning  -  #
Bob Dylan  -  Planet Waves  -  #NEW
Bob Dylan  -  Things Have Changed  -  #
Elbow  -  Station Approach  -  #
The Fall  -  The Theme From Sparta FC  -  #
The Fureys  -  The Green Fields of France  -  #
Woody Guthrie  -  This Land is Your Land  -  #
Jimi Hendrix  -  Star-Spangled Banner  -  #
Ronnie Hilton  -  A Windmill in Old Amsterdam  -  #
Iggy & The Stooges  -  Search and Destroy  -  #
Iron Butterfly  -  In A Gadda Da Vidda  -  #
Mark Knopfler  -  Sailing to Philadelphia  -  #
Kraftwerk  -  The Model  -  #
Landscape  -  Norman Bates  -  #
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance  -  Harvest Home  -  #
John Lennon  -  Imagine  -  #
Listen With Sarah  -  Blue Parsley  -  #
Little Richard  -  Lucille  -  #
Frankie Lymon  -  Why Do Fools Fall in Love  -  #
The Macc Lads  -  Blackpool  -  #  -  NEW
Mattafix  -  Big City Life  -  #
Mr Bungle  -  Disco Volante  -  #
Alanis Morissette  -  All I Really Want  -  #
Van Morrison  -  Inarticulate Speech of the Heart  -  #
Van Morrison  -  My Two Minutes Are Up  -  #
New Order  -  Technique  -  #
Nickelback  -  If Everyone Cared  -  #
Nick Cave  -  Mercy Seat  -  #
Nirvana  -  Nevermind  -  #
Pink Floyd  -  High Hopes  -  #
Placebo  -  The Bitter End  - 
#NEW
Pogues & Kirsty MacColl  -  Fairytale of New York  - 
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Giacomo Puccini  -  Nessun Dorma  -  #
Bonnie Raitt  -  Nick of Time  -  #
Maurice Ravel  -  Bolero  -  #
Otis Redding  -  Try A Little Tenderness  -  #
Rogue Wave  -  Descended Like Vultures  -  #
Rolling Stones  -  Gimme Shelter  -  #
The Ronettes  -  Be My Babey  -  #
The Ronettes  -  Ode To Nedra Talley  -  #
Jimmy Ruffin  -  What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted  -  #
Screeching Weasel  -  Hey Suburbia  -  #
The Smiths  -  How Soon is Now?  -  #
The Smiths  -  Jeane  -  #NEW
Snow Patrol  -  Final Straw  -  #
Phil Spector  -  To Know Him Is To Love Him  -  #
Spin Doctors  -  Two Princes  -  #
Cat Stevens  -  Father and Son  -  #
Stiff Little Fingers  -  Inflammable Material  -  #
Igor Stravinsky  -  Rite of Spring  -  #
Subway Sect  -  Ambition  -  #
Jamie T  -  Sheila  -  #
Talking Heads  -  This Must Be The Place  - 
#
Television  -  Marquee Moon  - 
#
Ike & Tina Turner  -  River Deep - Mountain High   -  #
Various  -  A Soundtrack To My Life  -  #
Various  -  Indie-Folk  -  #
Tom Waits  -  Step Right Up  -  #
Tom Waits  -  Tom Traubert's Blues  - 
#
Scott Walker  -  Jacques Brel  - 
#
Underworld  -  Born Slippy  - 
#
The Waterboys  -  A Girl Called Johnny  - 
#
Weezer  -  Buddy Holly  - 
#
Wilco  -  I Am Trying to Break Your Heart  - 
#
Dennis Wilson  -  Thoughts of You  - 
#
Neil Young  -  A Man Needs A Maid  -  #


MUSIC REVIEWS


'Blackout' - Britney Spears here
'Magic' - Bruce Springsteen here
'Twelve' - Patti Smith - here
'Tromatic Reflexxions' - Von Sudenfed here
'We'll Never Turn Back' - Mavis Staples here
'Wrong Meeting' - Two Lone Swordsmen here
'Grinderman' – Grinderman here
'Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo' Black Lips here
'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 Songs’ - here
Peter Murphy's review of Franz Ferdinand’s ‘You Could Have It So Much Better’ - here
Peter Murphy's review of Kathleen Edwards’ ‘Back to Me’ - here
Peter Murphy's review of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Devils and Dust’ - here
Peter Murphy's review of The Mars Volta’s ‘Frances the Mute’ - here
Peter Murphy's review of U2's 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb' - here
Peter Murphy's review of Jeff Buckley's 'Grace' (Legacy Edition) - here
Peter Murphy's review of Marianne Faithfull's, 'Before the Poison' - here
Peter Murphy's review of 'Real Gone' by Tom Waits - here
Peter Murphy's review of 'Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - here
Marc Goldin's review of Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Throw Down Your Arms’ - here
Marc Goldin's review of Vouvelle Vague’s ‘Sorry for Laughing’ - here
Marc Goldin's review of Mary Gauthier’s ‘Mercy Now’ - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Tribalistas' by Tribalistas - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Musicology' by Prince - here
Iain Bahlaj's review of ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not by Arctic Monkeys - here
Iain Bahlaj's review of 'Young and Stupid' by Josef K - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Celso Fonseco's 'Natural' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Sabrina Malhieros's 'Equilibria' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Ute Lemper's 'Berlin Cabaret Songs' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Natacha Atlas's 'Something Dangerous' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Loreena McKennitt's 'The Mask and the Mirror' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Loreena McKennitt's 'The Book of Secrets' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Mediaeval Baebes 'Undrentide' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Mediaeval Baebes 'Worles Blysse' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Fernanda Porto's 'Fernanda Porto' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of the compilation, 'Brazilounge Dois' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Estrella Morente's 'My Songs and a Poem' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Suba's 'Sao Paulo Confessions' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Cibelle's 'Cibelle' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Jane Birkin's 'Rendez-Vous' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Bebel Gilberto' by Bebel Gilberto - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Zipless' by Vanessa Daou - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Songs from the Cold Seas,' produced by Hector Zazou - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Yol Bolsin' by Sevara Nazarkhan - here



GIG REVIEWS


Take That - SECC, Glasgow - 22/11/07 - here
Eastern Haze - Somerleyton, Suffolk - 20-22/9/2007 here
Avangaad - The Green Room, Chesterfield - 3/5/2007 here
Doug Stanhope - Landing Comedy Club, St. Louis - 31/3/07 here
Morrissey - Live at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago - 21/11/2006 - here
Josh Ritter - Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin - 22/3/06
Rob Hart’s review of Patrick Duff live at Bar Academy, Birmingham on 15/03/2006 - here
Kara Kellar Bell’s review of Mariza supported by Flook at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 27/01/2006 - here
Stuart Blackwoods’s review of Gang of Four live at The Barbican, London on 24/9/2005 - here
Stuart Blackwoods’s review of Antony and the Johnsons live at Carling Academy, Glasgow on 29/11/2005 - here
Mathew West’s review of Bob Dylan live at the SECC, Glasgow on 17/11/2005 - here
Mathew West’s review of Manic Street Preachers live at Edinburgh Corn Exchange on 15/4/2005 - here
Mathew West’s review of The Mars Volta live at Glasgow Barrowlands on 11/3/2005 - here
Marc Goldin’s review of Mary Gautier live at Schuba’s, Chicago on 6/6/2005 - here
Tony O’Neill’s review of Kraftwerk Live at Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC on 1/6/2005 - here
Nick Dockerty's review of The Shanners at the Hope & Anchor on 03/02/05 - here
Iain Bahlaj's review of Franz Ferdinand/Arcade Fire gig Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh on 31/8/04 - here

Iain Bahlaj's review of Franz Ferdinand gig at The Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh on 29/4/04 - here


FEATURE ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS


David Thewlis Interview here
Michael Ondaatje Interview here
PJ Harvey Interview here
Douglas Coupland Interview here
Emer Martin Interview here
Foo Fighters Interview here
William S. Burroughs Interviews - V. Vale / J.G. Ballard here
Garth Cartwright Interview here
Dogme Eat Dog – Article here
White Stripes – Interview here
Jamie Byng - Interview here
Joe Hill - Interview here
Elizabeth Hand – Interview here
Grant McCaig – Interview here
Briony Anderson – Interview here
Foals – Interview here
How Shall We Submit: Examining Submission Guidelines – Article #
Bloc Party - Interview - #
Jon Ronson - Interview - #
Alison Miller - Interview - #
The Poet Spiel - Interview - #
Beyond Genre: The Spirit of Herman Melville - Article - #
Patrick McCabe - Interview - here
Alan Moore - Interview - here
Jon McGregor - Interview - here
William Styron - Article - here Alan Moore - Interview
Colm Toibin - Interview
This is How Israel Has Been For Me - Article
Irvine Welsh - Interview
Alcoholism in the Movies - Article
Mike McCormack - Interview
Brian Fugett, Zygote in My Coffee editor - Interview
Paul Rusesabagina - Interview
Lionel Shriver - Interview
Iran vs Mexico in World Cup 2006: Better Living Through Football - Article
William Taylor Jr - Interview
George Saunders - Interview
Willy Vlautin - Interview
The Foundation of Poetry - Interview with Charles P Ries
Are Women Underrepresented in the Small Press - Article
Joel Van Noord’s article ‘If it’s a War of Propaganda’ - here
Dan Fante’s article on John Fante’s ‘Ask the Dust’ - here
Michelle McGrane’s interview with Hagen Engler - here
Mike Ferraro interview with Mark SaFranko - here
Mike Ferraro interview with Dan Fante about Robert Towne’s ‘Ask the Dust’ - here
Neil Ayres’ interview with Lavie Tidhar - here
Neil Ayres’ interview with Steve Redwood - here
Neil Ayres’ interview with Mike Butscher - here
Tony O’Neill’s interview with Dan Fante - here
Laura Hird’s interview with Alasdair Gray - here
Marc Goldin's article, A Love Letter to New Orleans' - here
Marc Goldin's article, 'For Hunter S. Thompson' - here
Marc Goldin's article, 'On Che Guevara & the Motorcycle Diaries: Thoughts from an Unrepentant Leftist' - here
Graham Rae's interview with Robert Katzman - here
Graham Rae's interview with Single Cell Press - here
Graham Rae's interview with J.G. Ballard and V.Vale - here
Graham Rae's interview with John ‘Jughead’ Pierson - here
Graham Rae's article, 'I Was a Teenage John Peel Fan' - here
Robert Ciestla's interview with John King - here
Ron Collins' article, 'Strangers on a Page: Highsmith and Camus' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's article, 'Piccadilly and the Resurrection of Anna May Wong' - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Neil Strauss - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Bret Easton Ellis - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Augusten Burroughs - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Chuck Palahniuk - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Julia Blackburn - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Lionel Shriver - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Juliette and the Licks - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Garbage - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Bob Geldof - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Jon Ronson - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Snow Patrol - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Roddy Doyle - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Peter Biskind - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Alan Moore - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Susanna Clarke - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Nick Cave - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood - here
Peter Murphy's article 'The Blank Generation Revisited' - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Gregory David Roberts - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Lou Reed - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Paul Morley - here
Peter Murphy's tribute to Hubert Selby Jr. - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Shane MacGowan - here
Peter Murphy's interview with William Gibson - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Bruce Robinson - here
Peter Murphy's interview with T.C. Boyle - here
Peter Murphy's interview with J.T. LeRoy - here
Peter Murphy's interview with REM's Peter Buck about rock journalist, Lester Bangs - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Aleksandar Hemon - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Tobias Wolff - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Diamanda Galas - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Will Self - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Helen Walsh - 'Brass Tacks' - here
Peter Murphy's interview with Neil Gaiman - here
Peter Murphy's article ‘The Strange Tale of J.T. LeRoy - here
Matthew Firth's article, 'Remembering Hubert Selby Jr.' - here
Maria Grech Ganado's article, 'The Contemporary Writing Scene in Malta' - here
John King's tribute to Joe Strummer - here
Dan Schneider’s article ‘John Updike vs Raymond Carver - here



LIT MAG REVIEWS


Murdaland #1 - here
Atlas #2 - here
Mad Hatters' Review #7 - here
Zygote in My Coffee #3 - here
Sein Und Werden Vol 1 #2 - #
'Forgotten Worlds #5' - ed. Graeme Penman - here
'Storie: 10 Minute Scots' - ed. Laura Hird - here
'PostScripts #8' - ed Terry Bisson - here
Banipal #25: New Writing in Egypt
Whispers of Wickedness #12
Aesthetica #13
Scifantastic Vol 1, #3
Fairy Tale Review - The Blue Issue
Aesthetica Issue 13
Interzone #203
Libbon #2
Kara Kellar Bell's The Best of the Small Press – Autumn 2005 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's Small Press Round Up #1 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's Small Press Round Up #2 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's Small Press Round Up #3 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's Small Press Round Up #4 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's Small Press Round Up #5 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's Small Press Introduction #12 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Midnight Street Issue 6 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Orphan Leaf Review Issue 4 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Interzone Issue 201 and 202 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Banipal Issue 24 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Trunk Stories Issue 3 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Absinthe: New European Writing Issue 5 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of QWF Issue 47 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Bonfire Issue 3 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Open Wide Magazine Issue 17 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Midnight Street Issue 5 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Glimmer Train Issue 56 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of TriQuarterly Issue 121 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Night Train Issue 5 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Banipal Issue 23 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Storie 51, 55 & 56 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of The Orphan Leaf Review Issue 3 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Magma 32 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Gator Springs Gazette: Issue 3 2005 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Versal Issue 3 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Cadenza Issue 13 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Aesthetica Issue 10 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Midnight Street Issue 4 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Front and Centre Issue 11 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Whispers of Wickedness Issue 10 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Jupiter IX - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Zembla Issue 8 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Nemonymous Issue 5 - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of Earth Love Issue 16 - here
Rosanne Rabinowitz’s review of Gator Springs Gazette Issue 4 - here
Marion Arnott’s review of Granta 88: Mothers - here
Marion Arnott’s review of Crimewave Issue 8: Cold Harbours - here
Mario Guslandi's review of Wormwood #3 - here
Neil Ayres' review of Scheherazade #27 - here
Neil Ayres' review of Nemonymous #4 - here
Laura Hird's review of Front and Centre #10 - here
Laura Hird's review of Open Wide #13 - here
Laura Hird's review of Open Wide #12 - here
D.B. Cox's review of Mystery Island #2 - here

Megan Hornbuckle’s review of Outercast #3 - here

Robin M. Buehler’s review of The Stinging Fly #3 - here


ART


The Gallery - Art Resource
Anita Klein - Paintings
Art Poster Store - Order Prints
Daniel Meadows - The Bus
Martin Langford - ‘Temple’
Stuart Pearson Wright - Link to images
Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘Middlesbrough’
Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘Mr and Mrs Cramp’
Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘Tisbury Court – A Tragedy’
Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘The Ventriloquist’
Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘The Artist’s Mother’
Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘Head of a Cadaver’
Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘Birth of Maurice’
Stuart Pearson Wright - ‘Children and Fiddler’

FILMS



Film Reviews 'No Country for Old Men' - Joel & Ethan Coen here
'This is England' - dir: Shane Meadows - here
'Lifeboad' - dir: Alfred Hitchcock here
Born Into This - dir: John Dullaghan - #
Pan's Labyrinth - dir: Guillermo del Toro - #
This Film is Not Yet Rated - dir: Kirby Dick - #
300 - dir: Zack Snyder - #
Where the Green Ants Dream - dir: Werner Herzog - #
'Apocalypto' - dir. Mel Gibson - here
'Clerks II' - dir. Kevin Smith - here
'3 Women' - dir. Robert Altman - here
'Factotum' - dir. Bent Hamer - here
'Opening Night' - dir. John Cassavettes - here
The Last King of Scotland - dir: Kevin MacDonald
Saraband - dir: Ingmar Bergman
Stuart Blackwood's review of ‘A History of Violence’ - here
Stuart Blackwood's review of 'The Nomi Song' - here
Dan Schneider's review of 'Silver City' - here
Dan Schneider's review of 'Mr and Mrs Bridge' - here
Dan Schneider's review of 'Casa de Los Babys' - here
Dan Schneider's review of 'The Aviator' - here
Shirley Whiteside's review of ‘Festival' - here
Shirley Whiteside's review of ‘On A Clear Day' - here
Sean Walsh's review of ‘The Matador' - here
Sean Walsh's review of ‘The Brothers Grimm' - here
Sean Walsh's review of ‘Dark Water' - here
Sean Walsh's review of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' - here
Sean Walsh's review of 'Mean Creek' - here
Sean Walsh's review of 'Million Dollar Baby' - here
Brian Reid's review of 'White Noise' - here
Graham Rae’s's review of 'William S. Burroughs: Commissioner for Sewers' - here
Graham Rae’s's review of 'V for Vendetta' - here
Graham Rae’s's review of 'Me and You and Everyone We Know' - here
Iain Bahlaj's review of 'Team America: World Police' - here
Iain Bahlaj's review of 'A Room for Romeo Brass' - here
Julian Allen's review of 'Ae Fond Kiss' - here
Alan Ram's review of 'My Summer of Love' - here
Grady Harp's review of 'The Barbarian Invasions' - here
Grady Harp's review of 'Dogville' - here
Shahbano Bilgrami's review of 'American Splendor' - here
Sally Quilford's review of 'Equilibrium' - here
Laura Hird's review of '9 Songs' - here
Laura Hird's review of 'Dirty Pretty Things' - here
Laura Hird's review of 'Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut' - here
Laura Hird's review of 'The Last Great Wilderness' - here
Laura Hird's review of 'Adaptation' - here
Laura Hird's review of '25th Hour' - here
Laura Hird's review of 'Animal Factory' - here
Laura Hird's review of 'Secretary' - here
Laura Hird's review of 'Auto Focus' - here
Laura Hird's review of 'Open Hearts - Elsker dig for evigt' - here
Laura Hird's review of 'The Mother' - here
Marc Goldin's review of ‘Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada’ - here
Marc Goldin's review of ‘Capote’ - here
Marc Goldin's review of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Broken Flowers' - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Sin City' - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Beyond the Sea' - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Born Into Brothels' - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Undertow' - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'The Motorcycle Diaries' - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Maria, Full of Grace' - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Coffee and Cigarettes' - here
Marc Goldin's review of 'Young Adam' - here
Tim West's review of 'The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy' - here
Tim West's review of 'Sideways' - here
Tim West's review of 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' - here
Tim West's review of 'House of Flying Daggers' - here
Tim West's review of 'The Incredibles' - here
Tim Foster's review of 'Finding Neverland' - here
Tim Foster's reveiw of 'Layer Cake' - here
Tim Foster's review of 'Shattered Glass' - here
Tim Foster's review of 'Lost in Translation' - here
Tim Foster's review of 'Zatoichi' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Downfall' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Old Boy' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'The Dreamers' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Read My Lips' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Ten' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'A Tale of Two Sisters' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Wisconsin Death Trip' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Frida' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'The Swimmer' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Kill Bill Volume 1' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Kill Bill Volume 2' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Sex and Lucia' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Intacto' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Better Than Chocolate' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'The Devil's Backbone' - here
Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'The Terrorist' - here
Daniel Pearson’s review of ‘Whale Rider’ - here
Daniel Pearson’s review of ‘Monster’ - here
Daniel Pearson’s review of ‘Throne of Blood’ - here
A selection of film reviews written by Laura Hird - here


FILM PROFILES

Film Profiles 1 - Profiles of directors, Michael Haneke, Gaspar Noe, Lars Von Trier, Larry Clark and Neil LaBute

Film Profiles 2 - Profiles of Paddy Considine, Todd Solondz, Lukas Moodysson, Harmony Korine and Katrin Cartlidge

Film Profiles 3 - Profiles of Alan Clarke, Ken Loach, Shane Meadows, Mike Leigh and Stephen Frears

GENRE BENDING

Genre Bending - My Top 10 Sexiest Film Moments
Genre Bending - My Top 10 Horror Films


PEOPLE


THE BIG QUESTION

Interview - Trev Taylor – The Gay Read Editor
Interview - Robert Bruce – Quiz Master
Interview - Max Dunbar - Projectionist
Geneology - Sarah Knight’s Ancestors
Punk - Author, John King on Punk’s legacy
Reviews and Tips - Frank Smith advises
The Best of 2003 - Gordon Legge selects his favourite things

TYNIE TALK

Ian Brown - Interview
Alison Coyle - Interview
Alistair Bell - Interview
Andy Walker - Interview
Robert Burns - Interview
Derek Tait - Interview
Carol Coutts - Interview
Charlie Tait - Interview
Davie Fraser - Interview
Davie O’Neill - Interview
Derek Shearsby - Interview
Duncan Clark - Interview
Erick Sharp - Interview
Frank Smith - Interview
George McFie - Interview
George Murray - Interview
Gillian Findlay - Interview
Iain Towsey - Interview
Karen Munro - Interview
Martin Coyle - Interview
Matty Marshall - Interview
Michael Carrigan - Interview
Natalie Quinn - Interview
Niall Sandilands - Interview
Nicola Brown - Interview
Alec Wallace - Interview
Peter McCowatt - Interview
Ricky Markey - Interview
Sarah Knight - Interview
Senga Law - Interview
Steven Ritch - Interview
Stephen Smith - Interview
Tam Ainslie - Interview
Tam Dickson - Interview
Tam McNeil - Interview

RECIPES


Big Andy's Chicken Jalfrezi
Andy's Prawn and Pine Nut Tagliatelli
Andy’s Pure Golden Brown Trout
Angela’s Anal Annihilation
Big Davie’s Beef Stew
Frank’s Creamy Chops
Laura’s Barrie Borscht
Laura’s Bee’s Knees Scouse
Marion's Prawn Pilaff
Rosalind’s Cheesy Broccoli Bake
Sandra’s Blow Your Arse Off Stew
Sarah’s Game
Sarah’s Stovies
Senga’s Cheesy Beanos
Senga's Chicken and Bacon Lasagne
Stevie’s Mussels
Tam Dickson’s Haggis
Tam Ainslie’s Mince Macaroni
The Secret of Tam’s White Pudding
Trev’s Mushy Peas from Scratch


MISCELLANEOUS

Competitions - Win Books and DVD’s
Events - All the Latest Theatre and Music News
Homepage - Go back to the beginning
Links - Hundreds of Ways to Distract Yourself

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