The writer and academic Jo Bryant was inspired to write the following by a Wednesday afternoon in 1964, in her parents’ sweetshop in Winter Road. Mrs Clifton, diminutive and smart, is in her 70s, retired [… read more ]
By Sue Harper Sarah had signed up to go on a 10-day cruise. She had great misgivings about it: she might be stuck in a floating gin palace with intolerable bores, she might have a [… read more ]
By Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far New to Portsmouth, Ranulph the wolf lodges with feisty fox Trixie, and the two of them have a stall selling “wild food wraps” on the seafront. Ranulph [… read more ]
By Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far New to Portsmouth, Ranulph the wolf has found lodgings with feisty fox Trixie, and the two of them have set up a stall selling “wild food wraps” on [… read more ]
By Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far New to Portsmouth, Ranulph the wolf has found lodgings with feisty fox Trixie, and the two of them have set up a stall selling “wild food wraps” on [… read more ]
By Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far New to Portsmouth, Ranulph the wolf has found lodgings with feisty fox Trixie, and the two of them have set up a stall selling “wild food wraps” on [… read more ]
by Anne Paton-Cragg The story so far A disappointing experience with rascally fox Tod has taught our hero Ranulph the need for circumspection. That doesn’t dissuade him from lodging with Tod’s feisty sister, Trixie. In [… read more ]
by Anne Paton-Cragg Introduction to Wolf Moon: The Ranulph Fables This is the first of six stories about a wolf called Ranulph, newly arrived in Portsmouth. Against the wishes of his mother and uncle, Ranulph [… read more ]
We present the opening chapter of Emily, Christine Lawrence‘s novel set in the Portsmouth Borough Asylum in the latter years of World War I. Based on real-life stories and events from the time, it was [… read more ]
By Jane Andreoli Body image is a curious thing, thought Clara as she adjusted her weight in the chair. She could classify herself an anorexic, because whenever she looked at herself in a mirror, she [… read more ]
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