Elizabeth Baines

Warning: plot spoiler. Mark suggested this book which he said he really admired, considering it a truly great book:  a novel set, like J...

Once again other commitments have kept me from writing up the reading group report, and once again, I'm afraid, I have to rack my brains...

I wasn't at the last meeting when the reading group discussed Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the well-known and acclaimed auto...

My good friend the writer Vicky Grut has asked me to tell you about an exciting-looking course (details  below) which I'd attend myself...

Lovely surprise this weekend: a copy of the latest issue of Stand Magazine plopped through my letterbox, containing a new story of mine,...

The Gospel According to Cane by Courttia Newland (Telegram) Beverley Cottrell lives alone in a tiny flat, once a week teaching an evenin...

This is a book, the Lolita story updated to the nineties and recast from the viewpoint of the 'nymphet', which Trevor has kept men...

It's a while since I managed to keep up with reporting things right away or even at all, and here are belated photos of a launch I at...

Funny how a domestic upheaval can make you reassess your relationship to your physical books - both one's personal relationship with ...

What do I do when I'm setting a novel or a story in the past, and I want to refer to characters' clothing? I look at old photos, ...

One of the five writers I tagged in The Next Best Thing is A (Andrea) J Ashworth (above), and today her post is up . Bravely, she writes...

Well, I've been tagged by the one and only Maya Chowdhry in something called The Next Big Thing by which I'm required to answer que...

To Southport on Friday evening for the launch of Cary Bray's Scott-Prize-winning story collection Sweet Home . It was dreadful weath...