Jackie Green recently picked up a book called The Hollow Sea to study its gorgeous gold lettering and turquoise blue cover that seemed to shimmer with an almost hypnotic life of its own. Turns out [… read more ]
It’s a rare and wonderful thing for a group of writers, amateur and professional, to come together and give of their best work completely free, to do their bit to save the planet. This is [… read more ]
When my novella Missing Words was published by Fairlight Books eighteen months ago, local author Loree Westron thought she could sit back and let the marketing folks do their business, watching the reviews roll in and [… 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 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 Jackie Green Quips that slip from pompous lip, Wide eyed lies that slide like flies From piles of dung, publicly flung At the tufty hair and vacant stare, Of our PM from number [… 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 an extract from RC Birchley’s Portsmouth-focused walks book Jagged Edges: A Search for Space in an Island City. Here Birchley focuses on walking in late winter, when new signs of life are starting [… read more ]
By Margaret Jennings Mr and Mrs Portsmouth are kirtled by the sea proud of their ironclad links to Nelson and Victory, Looking down on their sister, Gosport. Dismissive of the Scummers. Mr and [… read more ]
On a cold and quiet Monday evening, Paul Beresford found himself in Portsmouth’s iconic Wedgewood Rooms, watching Open Ya Mouth, an open-mic event hosted by local creative group Trash Arts. He spoke with Omar Mahmood [… read more ]
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