Finding the link

Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time

K.S. Ford has always been a storyteller but only began writing novels after he retired in 2020. The Woman Who Loves is his seventh original story and the first one written outside of his own experienc

A History of England in 25 Poems: Treasures ...

MARIE peered out of the front room window, wondering if people would be on time. And not only that – what if nobody showed? She let the net curtain drop, listening to the kettle whistling in the kitch

IN the rear of her stationary motor-taxi, a young milliner reached up a careful gloved hand to pat her black-felt cloche, snug on her smart, fair curls. Constance Smart had been sitting patiently for

Caricatured as a suburban grouch, Philip Larkin was, in fact, an attentive and astute chronicler of Nature. On the 40th anniversary of the poet’s death, Richard Barnett celebrates his lifelong love of the English countryside