fiction

In a video on the Brownbread mixtapes Youtube channel, Karl Parkinson reads his "Positivity Manifesto." In a torrent of words and imagery he moves from Walt Whitman to weight loss hypnotist Paul McKenna, to Nintendo Wii, referencing William…

Jane Marple, Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley and Maud Silver would be more accurately described as Golden Girls of the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, but that would make for a cumbersome title. All three characters found their way into print…

From a host of 32 talented writers we have pain-stakingly chipped away at the competition to reach this triumphant conclusion; only two writers remain. It's a literary death match. Picture the infamous Spock Vs Kirk battle scene but with…

This week we were thrilled to invite Paul Murray, author of 'Skippy Dies', 'The Mark and the Void', and 'An Evening of Long Goodbyes', onto the HeadStuff Podcast. Noel O'Regan, writer and literature editor for HeadStuff.org joins Alan on…

Next Week: Don't forget to check in next week where the theme is: Fashionable Police. We'll detail some of the best known detectives from literature but can you guess their name?

Next Week: Don't forget to check in next week where the theme is: Coming of age. We'll detail some of the finest novels in print but can you guess how old they are?

Next Week: Don't forget to check in next week where the theme is name-dropping: We’ll give you the noms de plume of some famous writers but can you guess who they really are?

Next Week: Don't forget to check in next week where the theme is: School daze. We’ll give you the first line from some of your fond-remembered/most-hated school poems. See how many you can recall.

Next Week: Don't forget to check in next week where the theme is: Before they were famous. We will describe the lowly occupations of some top writers before they turned to writing. But will you be able to identify the authors?…

Monday 19th January Milly Squealed when she saw my hair. She told me to leave the office before anyone else saw me. Apparently my hair would cause uproar. She gave me a tenner to go to boots with the hissed instruction "get hair dye." As I…