We’re delighted to have teamed up with Comma Press and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) as Media Partner for the fifth annual Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction. The submissions have been...
Read MoreThe huge surge in the readership of crime novels during the present unpleasantness arises partly, no doubt, from the visceral pleasure, sheer entertainment and, yes, reassurance to be had from a gripping plot, set within a...
Read MoreHere it is. The Manchester Martyrs were three members of a large gang who attacked a horse-drawn police van on Hyde Road in September 1867. Two leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood were sprung free and a police guard was...
Read MoreThankfully, there does seem to be one vital element of life that this blasted COVID-19 can’t completely disrupt and that’s books and all things bookish. While I’m excelling at becoming a social outcast in my little patch of...
Read MoreMorse, Vera, Poirot and, um, Kojak. The titles given to fictional detectives are as recognisable as the back of a crime-lover’s hand. But few, if any, have Donald Trump to thank for the genesis of their name – unless...
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