Grown-Up Kids: an excerpt from ‘The Book of Jakarta’

Today Comma Press publishes the latest instalment in our Reading the City series, The Book of Jakarta. Edited by Maesy Continue reading →

International Women’s Day: Reflections on womanhood from Britain, Latvia, and Somalia

To mark International Women’s Day this year we asked three of our authors to write about what it means to Continue reading →

Protest Guest Blog: ‘The Stop the Clause march, thirty years on’ by Juliet Jacques

Never Going Underground – The Stop the Clause march, thirty years on When Comma Press asked me to contribute to Continue reading →

A Trump Reading List

It’s been a year. A year of CAPITALS USED FOR EMPHASIS AT THE END OF TWEETS. A year of walls Continue reading →

Conradology: Re-imagining ‘The Secret Sharer’ with Sarah Schofield

Today, the 3rd December, marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Conrad, and 2017 is a special year Continue reading →

Martyn Bedford Guest Blog: Writing from experience in Letters Home

Like many authors, I’m often asked to what extent my fiction is based on personal experience. Some readers seem unduly Continue reading →

Michelle Green: Sound, Access, and the Present Tense (Hayling Stories part 2)

Read part 1 of the Hayling Stories blog series here. Listening to a story is different from reading a story. Continue reading →

Michelle Green: On inherited memory – how much is enough? (Hayling Stories part 1)

I never know what to say when I’m asked where I’m from. So much is wrapped inside that question, like Continue reading →