A ghost inside can make Scorpio and Taurus very happy’ is about love and connection, making jokes and making a cake, a delicious chocolate cake that has, surprise surprise, a ...
“Everything… is slow and quiet… familiar yet unfamiliar to Fai and Cheong.” Today’s #StorySunday is “Where Are You From?” by by Flo Au.
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A young mother reflects on the currents that pass through families, as she tucks her child to sleep.
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An essay about the idea of love.
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How does a marriage work? An incisive tale about modern love.
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I was twelve when Dad passed away. Bhaiya was the closest I had to a father for the greater part of my life. Losing him was like losing my father ...
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is vividly brought to life in this this entertaining debut novel.
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The vibrant city of Bradford, the world’s first-ever city of film, is a great place to meet like-minded people and explore the rich and creative heritage together.
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We reached an understanding as I stared into one of Turner’s stormier seascapes. You came up behind me, tucked two icy fingers into the soft warmth at the inside of ...
From his author picture, Simon Rich looks pretty happy (even if his mum probably made him wear a tie). Who wouldn’t be: three books, five screenplays, he used to work ...
We walked across the street to the park. Some of our number dropped back, heading to the pub. They claimed they were too manly to go any longer without beer, ...
The winners of our #ThisIsNotLove flash fiction competition are, in order: Melinda Salisbury with “Parthian Shot”, Matthew Smart with “The Sump Pit”, and Peter Spencer with “Lovecats”.
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Cross-dressing, sodomy, blood-sucking and a touch of necrophilia. In this feature, novelist Rosie Garland picks her top ten weirdest relationships in literature. “The edge of things has always interested me ...
The path to the water is long and winding, cutting down past the bakery through the olive groves as the scent from lemon trees floats on the wind. For a ...
Aubrey Finkle once told his wife that Origami was an act of love, turning a simple sheet of paper into something with form and meaning. How fragile the paper shapes, ...
Rachel Rose Reid enchanted her audience with a refreshing interpretation of our best-loved fairytales in her show, I’m Hans Christian Anderson, last Friday at the Leicester Square Theatre as part of ...
Late that night when the river outside was black like octopus ink and inside the only noise was the low buzz of the boiler, he heard a scratching sound and ...
‘Excuse me. Does this train go to Ames?’ Taeko Endo asked a woman reading a newspaper in one of the seats near the door.
‘Yes, it does,’ the woman answered, smiling.
Taeko ...
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Sure, I could blather on about the love to be found within the pages of a book, but I speak more literally when I tell you that Penguin ...
