Having read The Interesting Adventures of Olaudah Equiano and A Portable Paradise , I seemed to have something of a slavery theme in my re...

After many years of almost reading it, I finally sat down with The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano , expecting a book that was dida...

  Yesterday, the children at the performance club of the school I work at performed a three show run of an adaptation of The Greatest Showma...

  Yesterday I turned 40. I’m not a huge one for marking dates but a lot has changed in the last year; I’ve moved town, started a new job, fo...

 A few years ago I read The Tale of the Lady Ochikubo and was astonished to find a book that read like an eighteenth century English novel ...

 The hardest part of writing for me, isn’t the part where I’m putting words on the page. While I can sometimes sit sweating at that blank sp...

 A sad moment in my writing life happened when I turned 35 and could no longer be eligible for the Betty Trask Award, one I’d often daydream...