Oscar Oruche wins the University of Manchester’s Flash 25 fiction and Non-fiction Competition I am Oscar Oruche, three-quarters English and a quarter Nigerian, and am a current Undergraduate Student reading a BA (Hons) in East Asian Studies. Prior to living in the UK, I lived in Singapore, where I was exposed to Chinese culture and […]
Talks
Monica Ali @ LBF25, reviewed by Joseph Hunter
Monica Ali @ LBF25 | 13th March 2025Reviewed by Joseph Hunter At all of the talks and events at this year’s London Book Fair there was an abiding sense that the wider world is in a state of disequilibrium, to put it mildly. Chris Power (A Lonely Man, 2021) put words to what many of […]
Claudia Piñeiro @ LBF25, reviewed by Joseph Hunter
Claudia Piñeiro @ LBF25 | 12th March 2025Reviewed by Joseph Hunter In the subterranean Main Stage of the London Book Fair, Claudia Piñeiro was unsure about her own ability to conduct the conversation in English rather than her native Spanish. The Argentinian author, best known for her crime novels, has had many of her books […]