Our Author of the Month for September is novelist, essayist and memoirist Deborah Levy, whose latest novel The Man Who Saw Everything was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. We at the Bookshop have long been Levy devotees, so couldn’t pass up the chance to reconvene our (very) occasional ...
The fourteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University revealed its shortlist on Friday 6 September, with writers exploring sexual politics, intolerance, community and immigration. We'll be posting extracts from all the shortlisted stories this week; today’s extract is from ...
Ever wondered why the indiscretions of some MPs make the front page while others don’t? How close journalists really are to politicians? Or how on earth the country is run when the British political system is in such a mess? In Haven’t You ...
