Francis Murphy presents a memoir of Northern Ireland in the late sixties Introduction Once again Northern Ireland is back in the headlines. Small scale rioting in Loyalist... Continue reading
Paul Simon reviews From the Plough to the Stars, edited by Jenny Farrell This anthology is another impressive book from the Culture Matters imprint and is funded... Continue reading
Other/ White Other by Fran Lock There is silence in the workshop when the young woman asks me am I sure I’m white. Silence, not embarrassed, but... Continue reading
Sally Flint, Virginia Baily and Mike Quille have edited a new anthology of various kinds of writing on the subject of the climate crisis and capitalism. It is... Continue reading
Robert J. Gallagher, himself a Birmingham boy, reviews I Don’t Want To Go To The Taj Mahal: Stories of a Birmingham Boy, by Charlie Hill, available here... Continue reading
Michael Jarvie introduces a new section of our website, on Life Writing My collection of working-class life writing, Into the Silence, has a Dewey Decimal Classification of... Continue reading
Fran Lock reviews Charlie Hill’s new memoir Charlie Hill’s memoir, I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, is told in a series of linked poetic... Continue reading