Richard Meier’s After the Miracle
Broad Street was in summer mode: conga lines of language students sporting identical backpacks following the sign of the brolly …
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A Fragile Thing – Camille Ralphs’ After You Were, I Am
After a chance remark about George Herbert, the librarian pulled a small volume from the shelf: leatherbound and plain, scruffy …
Penny Boxall’s The Curiosities
I’ve been never one for zoos, but daily life offers the same anxieties. Visiting my mother in her gated compound, …
Fiona Moore’s Okapi
Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks is on my mind – again. On first reading, I paid it scant attention, but it’s nagged …
Woven Song—Liane Strauss’s ‘The Flaws in the Story’
In a world of spoilers, ignorance can be a superpower. And so it was when I visited Sir John Soane’s …
Over the Rainbow—Claire Booker’s ‘A Pocketful of Chalk’
Hitherto, charity shops were simply places to bag bargains but, of late, I have discovered their knack for landing painful …
Love Crimes – Kevin Reid's Androgny
At primary school, confession, or, in Catholic parlance, the sacrament of reconciliation, was little more than our means to obtain …
Bullet the Blue Sky – Carolyn Forché’s ‘What You Have Heard Is True’ and ‘The Country Between Us’
When exploring a vocation to the priesthood in my early twenties, the Society of Jesus was of great personal interest. …
Rebecca Tamás – Witch
On Friday the 21st August, 1829, The Times reported on the case of Jean Sabathé. His child was gravely ill. …
Great balls of fire – Keith Chandler’s The Goldsmith’s Apprentice
Sadly, the lube applied to my intimate area was not recreational but medical. Following numbness, blood, a phone call, I …
Poor Rude Lines 