India Today

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₹577 (Kindle); 368 pages Hailed by critics as “the first great millennial novelist”, Sally Rooney is set to build on the success of Normal People with a new novel in September. Her characters, we hear, will again be young and Irish. They will again w

SFX

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RELEASED 2 APRIL 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Claire McKenna Publisher Harper Voyager Not into romance in your fantasy novels? Fear not. Despite the title, this is very much a tale of Gothic passion, more akin to Rebecca or Jane Eyre i

The Cottage Journal

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Known for the grandeur of its 18th-century architecture, world-class museums, and famous landmarks, Paris holds an allure for many. Therefore, it’s no surprise that this global epicenter for art and culture offers endless inspiration for those lucky

Writing Magazine

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It’s fair to say that horror fiction as we know it today is a very broad church, with everything from the subtlety and nuance of the ghost story and psychological horror through to the ‘old favourites’ of the classic monsters and the far less subtle,

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RELEASED 30 JUNE 299 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia Publisher Del Rey There are shades of Daphne du Maurier in this twisty little gothic novel, which pits a young woman against the horrors of a crumbling ancestral home. Our heroin

Literary Hub

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Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray first appeared on June 20th, 1890, in the July issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, to major controversy and no small amount of hostility. According to Nicholas Frankel, editor of an annotated edition of th

Writing Magazine

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FableCroft Publishing is an Australian independent press of speculative fiction. The editorial team has been ‘so tipped upside down and shaken in ways we could barely have imagined, except perhaps in the post-apocalyptic and dystopic worlds of story.

Literary Hub

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This year, SP Books is publishing the original manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, originally submitted for publication in Lippincott’s Magazine in 1890. Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde’s grandson, worked closely with the publishers

The Big Issue

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Just as if you’re sad, you should listen to melancholy music, so in lockdown it can be a good idea to read stories of isolation and unhappiness. Autobiographical tales tell of Kavan’s poor relationship with her parents and husband, and her attraction

Writing Magazine

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The Create the Future Climate Writing Competition is an international competition for eco-fiction inviting entries of any kind of creative writing. Entries may be fiction, poetry, creative essays or any other kind of creative writing that answers one

Woman & Home

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This is the best handbook for ordinary life in the 19th century and one of the greatest Victorian reads. Aside from giving us an insight into the human struggle for pleasure, it explores all of life, from art to science, politics and romance. A 20th

Haven Magazine

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Far from being tucked away in some quiet shed, the studio of artist Rachel Kiddie McClure occupies the front room of her Hamilton character bungalow. This allows her to work at home around other commitments, melding together domestic and creative lif

Denver Life Magazine

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In Downtown Denver’s Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, a striking, emerald chair stands on five legs. However, what looks like a quirky take on a standard furniture piece boasts a rich history. After discovering the authorless chair, the Kirk

Writing Magazine

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Melissa Oliver has won the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award. Melissa’s debut, The Rebel Heiress and the Knight, was awarded the RNA’s £1,000 prize for new writers, which is given to a writer whose first novel has been completed after passing through the Rom

New Idea

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Natalie Portman is reading Normal People by Sally Rooney. The award-winning novel is a portrait of Connell and Marianne’s relationship, from their life as teenagers in a small Irish town to when they move to Dublin for uni. ■

Creative Artist

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The collection is stored in a purpose-built facility with designated rooms for works on paper, textiles, black and white photographic negatives, ceramics, and paintings. Recently the Gallery presented a survey exhibition focusing on the past 40 years

Attitude Magazine

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For Spring/Summer 2022, Edward Crutchley has taken inspiration from the intersection of queerness and Gothic themes. A particular focus is the treatment of the queer body in society as portrayed in Gothic literature, with themes of the outsider drawn

Aperture

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John Edmonds’s first encounter with visual art was by way of religious iconography. No surprise, then, that his portraits of Black strangers, lovers, and friends so often come cocooned in a beatific light. Whether employing the vivid silk of a durag

Writing Magazine

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Ghost Orchid Press is a new independent publisher of horror, gothic, and supernatural fiction based in Cambridgeshire. The editorial team is keen on ‘championing new and emerging authors in these increasingly popular, versatile genres’, believing ind

Writing Magazine

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The team at The Writer’s Block are looking for short stories for an anthology for YA and NA readers but you’ll have to write fast: the deadline is 10 March. Aesthetic: A Dark Academia Anthology is to be published as an Amazon ebook and print version.

Writing Magazine

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It will soon be St Valentine’s Day, so I decided to check out the Romantic Novelists’ Association and find out about the state of romantic fiction in 2020. Luckily the current chair, Alison May, was happy to chat to me. ‘The RNA is sixty years old th

Writing Magazine

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US-based TouchPoint Press publishes across genres and styles. They currently seek short stories for two anthologies and novels for the international section of the Love Abroad romance series. The romance imprint is a clean series for all types of rom

Watercolor Artist

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The silence of an empty street. A crisp fall walk with grandchildren. The evening light illuminating a beloved pear tree in the backyard. Two colorfully dressed strangers observed on vacation. A forgotten memory from childhood unearthed on a trip to

Art Almanac

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Lens Magazine

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"Fine Art Photography isn't just about pressing the shutter button. It is about turning yourself inside out, visualizing both beautiful and socially critical topics, and making the previously unseen visible. It is also about repealing the laws of nat

Art Almanac

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“Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things; they were in them, in all of them.” – Hermann Hesse, Six novels, with other stories and essays (1980) Art can evoke hidden dimensions of our already tiered reality, with intertwining laye

Cairns Vibrance

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From the creative team behind My Name is Jimi, Simona Cosentini (Concept/Set Designer/Project Manager), Simone Tesorieri (Illustrator/Writer/Designer) and Jason Klarwein (Director/Dramaturg), comes new work: Lucky. A first draft of the work was recen

Writing Magazine

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Golden Fleece Press publishes ‘exemplary, amazing stories across all genres and subjects, about all kinds of people’. They ‘love the quirky, and the fantastic, and the weird… We love subtle stories, and stories about everyday people who do extraordin

Writing Magazine

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Pressed Clover Books is a new indie determined to publish lots of books with happy endings. They love romance and are looking for more, especially stories which show ‘how love really can and does transform this big, beautiful, world’. Submit by email

Woman & Home

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That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan (£14.99, HB, Michael Joseph) Julie Owen Moylan expertly places her readers in a New York apartment, where you feel the heat and hear the tinny radio. It’s 1975 and as 15-year-old Ava dreams of a boy, her ch