Before reading a novel, we may peruse the blurb, read reviews and thumb through the opening pages to get a gist of what the story is about. While that isn’t […]
Book Review: A Cage of Shadows
ARCHIE HILL A CAGE OF SHADOWS TANGERINE PRESS, 2017 Born and raised in the Black Country during the Depression, Archie Hill described his formative years as “an experience upon the […]
Book Review: These Darkening Days
BENJAMIN MYERS THESE DARKENING DAYS MAYFLY PRESS 2017 Harking back to the glory days of British rock when bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath could deliver two classic records […]
York Literature Festival: James Montgomery Performance
“For books, my friend, are charming brooms”. On Wednesday the 22nd of March, as part of York Literature Festival, Dr. Adam Smith guided the audience through the life and poetry […]
Hull UK City of Culture 2017
Hull UK City of Culture 2017 have unveiled details about Seasons Two and Three of their year-long cultural programme with 42 new commissions and world premieres, 24 festivals and 13 […]
COMING OUT by Jeffrey Weeks – Book Review
The history of homosexuality in Britain is neither brief nor simple, so the prospect of reading and reviewing one of the most renowned accounts of the UK’s LGBT history was […]
Sheffield Creative Guild – New Board of Directors
Here’s all you need to know about who’s on the new Board of Directors at the Sheffield Creative Guild. Max Cunningham I have been a board member since the initiation […]
Book Review: John Pilger – The New Rulers of the World
In 2003, when John Pilger first published his study of emerging 21st-century imperialism, the UK was on the brink of launching itself into the Iraq War alongside the US, with […]
Sheffield Creative Guild
Sheffield will soon be introducing its very own Creative Guild, which will promote, connect and support creative people across the city by providing a platform for them to work across, […]
Football Crónicas
Sheffield United nearly signing Maradona? Fact can be stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to football and Latin America. Football sets its own larger-than-life rules, while dramatic contrasts in […]
Tim Leach and The Thinking Man’s 300
Tim Leach is an author living in Sheffield who has variously described himself as an imposter, a climber, and a whisky and chess enthusiast (although we make no comment on […]
Stone Bruises by Simon Beckett
Having read Beckett’s David Hunter thrillers I was only too keen to get stuck into his latest story, Stone Bruises. The Hunter series is a gripping account of the life […]