Judith Wilson is a prize-winning writer of short stories. She also writes longer fiction. Her work is imbued with a strong sense of place, clarity of language, and a subtle sense of humour.
Academic and historian Sam Wetherell has written an intriguing and ambitious book, LIVERPOOL: A STORY OF BRITAIN (Head of Zeus, £12.99), focussing on the post WWII story of one of the UK’s largest cities, tackling the decline of its famous docks, racial disharmony, the Toxteth riots, urban regeneration and much more.
A visit to see Maggie O’Farrell ‘In Conversation’ about her latest novel, LAND (Tinder Press, £25), at the London Irish Centre.
SAID THE DEAD by Irish poet and author Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Faber & Faber, £18.99) is a haunting, evocative, poetic novel, woven around the history of a Victorian Cork psychiatric hospital, and a modern-day reader, who finds mental solace in uncovering, and reimagining, the lives of the forgotten women committed to the institution, over 100 years ago.
