"Marking the 20th anniversary of the untimely early death of writer W.G. Sebald (18/05/44 – 14/12/01) and 10 years since the release of the acclaimed film on his life and work by Grant Gee, we’re delighted to offer access globally and free for 36 hours to Grant’s documentary ​Patience (After Sebald) in tribute to one of the late century’s most important writers."

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Great news for fans of Julie Wassmer's The Whitstable Pearl Mysteries!

“It cannot be right for criminal activity to be rewarded; for families to have been forced from beaches and out of the sea, for residents to have had to sweep sewage from a footbridge so that local children do not have to tread in excrement on their way to school, and for Southern Water and its shareholders to continue to make huge profits from all this … so I am therefore exercising my consumer rights by withholding payment to Southern Water.” - Julie Wassmer

Inspired by the tweets of Jeff Noon, and almost a decade on from when it was conceived, a remarkable album by an international collective of musicians marshalled by a multi-instrumentalist and engineer-producer from Bingley has finally been released. Click on the image above to buy your own copy (only 300 will ever be made).

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Bridget O’Connor: A story-telling genius before her time

Martina Evans remembers her brilliant friend and fellow writer, whose ingenious stories are like pop songs 

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