Elizabeth Baines

It's a good while now since I've written for radio: I've even talked of having given it up, but to my delight I find myself...

A lovely review of The Birth Machine from Alan Beard , whose good opinion is really worth having, as he's a brilliant short-story writ...

Last night's one-off New Libertines event was quite fabulous. Organised by Literary Death Match winner and Eight Cuts Gallery impres...

I've said in several interviews and articles that when an idea comes to me I know instantly whether it's a story, a novel or a pl...

Warning: plot spoiler. In order to report our discussion, I've had to reveal the ending of this book. Doug suggested this book, a de...

Happy New Year! Hurray for a good break now and then, I say: I'm back at the desk today and bursting with plans for new projects. I...

The shortest day today and what better way to fill it with light than to celebrate National Short Story Day, and what better way to wish my ...

Recently I've been keeping my head down, busy writing short stories again, and I must say I'm finding it a peaceful life. I used ...

 What a strange autumn it's been, with all the plants still flowering on the last day of November - including, in our garden, sweet p...

 What's in a name? Or a book cover? My latest piece, a proposal for the publishing industry , for the online literary journal, The Vie...

This book, Clare's suggestion, is the story of two brothers, Homer and Langley Collyer, sons of a bourgeois doctor - one of whom, Home...

Apologies for not blogging much here lately about my comings and goings. It's been a busy  and at the same time a not-so-busy couple of...

I'm delighted to announce the winners of the giveaway of copies of my three Salt books, drawn from the hats by independent adjudicato...

Today is exactly one year since the reissue, in a new edition, of my novel The Birth Machine , and I'm celebrating with a giveaway ...

  My latest piece on the The View From Here magazine, discussing conventional versus experimental fiction.

Ann chose this book as she had watched a TV Review Show in which it received unusually unanimous praise. It is related in the first-person n...

Didsbury Arts Festival kicked off on Saturday. Yesterday morning I was moved to tears by the sight of these little boys playing with the Thi...

Trevor suggested this book on which the Stanley Kubrick film of the same name was based, a film Kubrick famously withdrew after accusations ...

Just out from Carve magazine, the publisher of 'honest fiction': an anthology of 2008 Carve stories, which includes my story '...

My latest article on the literary magazine, The View From Here , assessing the current shortlist and considering the BBC story cuts and the ...