Elizabeth Baines

Tim Love's review of Used to Be, based on his previous blog notes, is on Everybody's Reviewing. He begins: The Mandaeans of s...

Before Christmas, on the publication of Used to Be, Deborah Grace came to interview me for the Didsbury Community Index magazine. She asked ...

The New Year (well, the working New Year) kicks off for me with a great review of Used to Be on the A Life in Books blog. The poet Gillian...

It's a while now since I was delighted to receive from Nicholas Royle the latest production of his Nightjar short story imprint, a...

I'm thrilled to be involved with this project, a collaboration between Galley Beggar Press and Salt, intended to provide refuge for t...

I'm afraid this 1965 book didn't manage to compete with Christmas for our group. We met to discuss it in the pub just before our C...

Happy festive season!  Well, it's been a very busy year for me, and as a result I haven't blogged much, in spite of periodi...

On Friday evening Chrissie Gittins launched her wonderful new collection of stories, Between Here and Knitwear  (Unthank), a lovely even...

A lovely review of Used to Be by Hannah Stevens on the Everybody's Reviewing blog , which opens thus: 'A collection packed with...

Here are the copies of Used to Be packed up and addressed to the winners of the Goodreads giveaway . Congratulations to the 10 winners,...

Katie Lumsden, who reviewed Used to Be so generously on her blog, Books and Things, also has a YouTube channel in which she talks about h...

A really lovely review from Katie Lumsden on her excellent blog, Just Books and Things. I'm streaming with cold and stuck at home feeli...

Charlie Place has written about Used to Be on her blog, The Worm Hole. I met Charlie in June when we were both invited to the Simenon eve...

I never really know how to value Amazon reviews, or whether to quote from them, because there's been so much fuss about their lack of ...

Warning: plot spoil. This was Hans's suggestion, a novel that sets out to supply the lack that some of us had felt when we read and ...

Here's the second of my belated reading group reports: I suggested this metafictive 1973 novel by experimental writer B S Johnson, w...

I've been so busy with my current writing project and the publication of Used to Be , that I haven't at all been keeping up with the...

The launch for Used to Be was a real celebration - of the publication, of short stories in general, and of literary friendship. Writer fr...

Short story expert Charles E May has been writing on his blog, Reading the Short Story, about Salt's Best British Short Story series of ...

I'm giving away 10 signed copies of Used to Be on Goodreads, and it opens today. To enter click on the link in the sidebar.