Review: The Great Gatsby Pop-Up bar, Harrods
Liz Cookman samples cocktails and all that jazz at a Harrods pop-up bar, and asks if the marketing machine behind the Gatsby film is obscuring the message of the book ...
Announcing: The IGGY & Litro Young Writers’ Prize 2013
The IGGY and Litro Young Writers’ Prize is funded by philanthropically, and is open to gifted young people from around the world aged 13 – 18 and from all walks ...
Tales of the Thames
Last Saturday in London, a host of writers and historians – poet laureate Andrew Motion, architectural guru Dan Cruickshank, Iain Sinclair (Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report), ...
Maladies on the London Underground
The Roman philosopher Lucius Seneca said, “Disease is not of the body but of the place.” He must have been thinking of the Underground. But when speaking about the body ...
Review: Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 3-5 June
Stoke Newington hosted its second literary festival on Friday 3rd to Sunday 4th of June, a programme of events which has the long term goal of raising awareness and funds for literacy ...
A Word with Joe Dunthorne
Rob Fred Parker talks to writer Joe Dunthorne about his latest novel, the film adaptation of his debut Submarine, and more. Fans of of the magazine and Litro Live! may also recognise ...
Fruitless Days and Sleepless Nights
I’ve been having trouble coming up with ideas for this article. It’s my first piece for this new blog, after all, so the pressure is on to make a good ...
Novel: The Little House by Philippa Gregory
Say the name “Philippa Gregory” and one immediately thinks of tightly laced corsets, the corrugated lace of magnificently decorative ruffs, cunning plots and manipulative manoeuvres in the dangerous arena of ...