On December 9th, S&C Founding Editor and author Tom Sykes will be launching Tangled Saviours, an energetic, imaginative and self-aware novel of race, gender, culture, prejudice and redemption. Extraordinary characters connect across time and space [… read more ]
Author, S&C Literary Editor and Emeritus Professor of Film History, Sue Harper, shares some thoughts on writing historical fiction. This is a thorny issue, and it is probably foolhardy to undertake it. I suppose, to [… 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 ]
We are thrilled to announce that we have appointed two Literary Editors to the team, Prof Sue Harper and long-time contributor to the site, Paul Valentine. Sue and Paul are keen to read work submitted [… read more ]
Helen Salsbury interviews author and S&C regular contributor Christine Lawrence about her latest novel, a psychological thriller set in the homeless community in Fareham. Helen Salsbury (HS): Why did you write Don’t Step on the [… read more ]
S&C presents a story by local author Fletch Mallory, part of a collection that make up his recently released novel Stranded Foxes, inter-linked stories that jump through history and speak through a myriad of voices, [… read more ]
An excerpt from Lawless and the Flowers of Sin, William Sutton’s second Victorian mystery, published by Titan Books and launching on 12th July 2016. Sergeant Lawless explores the nightlife of Soho in his role as [… read more ]
By Christine Lawrence. It was a dark night and windy. I had walked across the marshes from Portsmouth town, keen to get away from the fevers, the evil humours from the effluence left by the King’s army. I’d spent [… read more ]
By Alison Habens Part II (Part I can be found here) This is a story of four thousand words. When Tripp and Crowley had moved on to torment another soul, I was able to read [… read more ]
By Alison Habens This is a story of three words: ‘Arise, Sir Ox’. Not stable-taught but star-led, for my uncle was the Earl of Southampton and my mother was thrice ladylike. I was raised in [… read more ]
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