The Missing Links
The Beat is coming back. * A Billy MacKenzie tribute concert, planned for 28 March at the Shepherds Bush Empire, is to include a rare appearance by Paul Haig (ex Josef K) (from le cool) * The strange story of Joyce Hatto. * The Independent are starting a Banned Books series, “25 cutting-edge titles, censored […]
Images of the Offbeat Generation
From the top: Heidi James, whose stunning first novel (Carbon) will be published in March (Heidi features in the latest issue of Open Wide); Brutalist Adelle Stripe with Lee Rourke (Everyday); Paul Ewen (London Pub Reviews) who was recently described as a “genius” by, inter alia, Steven Hall; novelist, poet, journalist, record label supremo (and […]
The Monkey House
Retching, I struggled in the slime, not knowing where I was going or how I had arrived. Mensforth’s voice droned through the hospital, The game isn’t over till the whistle, play up, play up, play the game, it’s not the winning that matters, old chap, it’s the taking part, British spirit, what, remember who you are, you’re an Englishman, England’s whitest, England’s finest, an Englishman is the finest fellow in the world.
By Andrew McIntyre.