Book Review: Precipitation by Ailsa Cox
When the city’s fluorescence, its frenetic denial of night, has started to lose its...
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Book Review: Waiting For The Gift, Edited by Richard V. Hirst
For the bookish, the similarities are self-evident. If the short story is the literary equivalent of a pop song, crafted for brevity and immediacy, then the themed anthology is like an LP record, affording the space for both the...
Read MoreBook Review: Manchester Uncanny by Nicholas Royle
For the sake of argument, let’s agree that the short stories in an anthology are like the running order of a set list. They should engage the audience from the outset, quelling their conversation, stopping them in their...
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Strawberry and The Big Apple: Grace Jones in Stockport, 1980 by Dave Haslam
At its best, Manchester’s Factory Records was the triumph of caprice over calculation. In a...
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‘a melancholy ache’ Loners by Adrian Slatcher
Loners, the debut collection of short stories by Adrian Slatcher, as often as not takes its...
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