"Only a few years ago, it was Jennings schoolboy stories that I brought you. Now, I pack avant-garde books: Tom Mallin, Alan Burns, a...

My short story describing a scene from an imaginary film is available to read here: https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-scene-by-de...

My short story 'Always Somewhere else' is available to read online here:

It doesn't take long for J. O. Morgan to establish the essential strangeness of both the setting and the central characters of this...

By deciding to create an entire short collection around the many ways in which children are deceived, placated, fobbed-off, used to...

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels by Ágota Kristóf, Alan Sheridan (Translator of The Notebook), David Watson...

For Hans Frambach, the middle-aged character who is central to The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender...

'The Piano Teacher' is like a piece of chamber music; a dissonant, serial composition with cold, confused Erika on piano, Mother on...

First, there is the image, then the thought about what we are looking at, followed by any associations that form from what we are seeing....

Life hasn't been so good for Joseph Fobes, this past while. Both life and his job as a plumber have got Joe into some very awkward and...

I first read Mircea Cărtărescu's wondrous novel, ''Nostalgia' back in 2012, seven years after it had been published in translation by New...

Oh, my emotions. My mixed emotions. My emotions mixed with dread. My dread that she wouldn't stop. Her not stopping. Stopping me from...

All through last year, 250 years after his birth, Beethoven was remembered in as many ways as the year allowed, though not often with the...

"I remember", we say. Then we begin to tell our version of what we can recall, filtered by how we felt at the time, what they failed to...