Apple Music Mondays: Hairy Beasts Playlist
A playlist by Aug Stone, inspired by his new collection of stories, Sporting Moustaches.
Remember Me
An extract from Remember Me by Charity Norman, winner of the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel.
Arctic Sun
An extract from Jack Grimwood’s forthcoming thriller, Arctic Sun—out this month from Penguin Michael Joseph.
Snow Dog: Canine Conquest of the Pole
In 1909, a team led by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen set off to reach the South Pole. Here, for the first time, is an account of the expedition from the point of view of one of his dogs.
Unfortunate Lovers
“Naked in bed, we lie at contorted angles to each other.” Erotic flash fiction by Joanna Maidment.
A Letter from the Apocalypse
An extract from Yudhanjaya Wijeratne’s email novel about a Kafkaesque, near-future Sri Lanka, and about the stupidity of it all.
Paddington Who?
Proposed collaborations for His New Majesty: from Thomas the Tank Engine to The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The Beatles & Me: Remembering the Sixties
As grieving Britain plunges head first down a vortex of nostalgia, Dominic Hilton suffers an acid flashback to the time he met those other apparently-immortal national treasures… The Beatles.
Etc Etc Amen (Extract)
On publication day for his fourth/final book in the KUU series, Howard Male takes us right back to the beginning with an extract from his novel Etc Etc Amen.
MILFs & Boon
We were sitting around one afternoon when my best mate’s mum casually dropped into conversation that, in her younger days, she once co-wrote a book for Mills & Boon.