Author: Nicole Nolan
Wine is big business these days. Although people have been drinking the fermented grape juice for around 4,500 years, there has been a huge surge in popularity in recent …
It was a thought that came to Guy Hasson out of the blue: Why are there no comics for the blind? He’d been running New Worlds Comics for around …
In his latest book, Release the Bats, DBC Pierre (otherwise known as Peter Finlay) revisited the process of writing a novel from scratch. As he shared with The Guardian …
It is perhaps, on the face of it, a paradoxical concept: a graphic novel for the blind and visually impaired. However, artist Ilan Manouach has created exactly that – …
If you’re one of the many who’ve been captivated by the supernatural Indiana-set homage to 1980’s pop culture masterpiece that is Netflix’s science fiction horror series Stranger Things, you …
August is the month if you love Scottish literature. With Edinburgh named the first ever UNESCO City of Literature in 2004 (Iowa City becoming the third in 2008 and …
Books have long been considered a salve for the soul, but in Syria that has been made literal. In the Damascus suburb of Darayya, people are dodging bullets, shrapnel, …
It’s okay, we can admit it: we’re a strange breed, us book-lovers. And we can seem at our strangest if – horror of horrors – non-readers come into contact …
Earlier this year, author Michael Haag delved into the history and legend surrounding Mary Magdalene, in his new title, The Quest for Mary Magdalene. In its pages, Haag searches …
In the month that it’s revealed the Divergent series is to cease movie production after its box-office bomb of a third installment and transfer to the small screen – …
There are some books we never want to end, where we read the final page, close the back cover, keep hold of it a little longer (maybe stroke the …
As any serious student of literature will tell you, unless your studies have ventured into the élite realm of Russian novelists, you cannot truly call yourself a reader. To …
“The Austen Project” – three little words which, if you’re of a certain age (ahem…) take you right back to a college seminar course. But, no, this is the …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, ever since Harry Potter was brought to the world grace à Rowling, the YA Fantasy scene has exploded. Yet, so too has the …