Lee Wright

Using the same narrative method that proved so successful for Jay McInerney with his 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City; Andrew Cowan delivers an at times tormenting account of childhood, told in the second person.  Your Fault begins in…

It is said that a good writer can turn their hand to any genre, and with her debut children’s book, Alison Moore has put that to the test. There has always been a child-like innocence to many of the protagonists in Moore’s adult novels.…

Harley got out of bed and shone the torch into the car park. V sat up straight, switched on her lamp, then waited, like a hospital patient. ‘Can you see anything?’ Harley moved the light over to the trees, seeing the man moving like…

Sequels are unnecessary and more often than not, feel like a missed opportunity. There are though, a few rare exceptions. Psycho II is one of them. Anthony Perkins had already starred in eleven feature films before director Alfred…

In early March I was in attendance at the literary festival known as States of Independence, organised by Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham and held at the De Montfort University in Leicester. It was a day of ideas, to witness how much…

The Executor is Blake Morrison’s fourth novel, and his first since 2010’s excellent Othello-inspired The Last Weekend. Like that previous novel, The Executor has a first-person narrator, 40-something Matt Holmes, telling us his version…