Author Archive
November 8, 2024In recent years Ali Smith has mastered a style that is both disconcerting and utterly humane. Her Seasonal Quartet – a novel for each season, published between 2016 and 2020...
August 26, 2024Opening her late-summer set in Gunnersbury Park, west London, PJ Harvey sang: “Wyman, am I worthy?/Speak your wordle to me.” A pink haze had settled across the sky just...
April 25, 2024On a recent tour of British bookshops, the American author Percival Everett visited Bath. He spent some time signing copies of his most recent book, James, in the independent...
March 15, 2024On 20 September 1977 Townes Van Zandt played the first of two nights at the Lone Star Cafe, then New York City’s premier country music venue. By this point the Texas-born...
