Magic Realism

  'Waiting for Bluebeard' tries to understand how a girl could grow up to be the woman living in Bluebeard's house. The story be...

  My poetry collection Owl Unbound has just been published and will be launched online at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival on 23rd October. I...

First published in 1999, translated into six languages and a runaway best-seller in Spain, Seven Churches is one of the most haunting an...

Oz Hardwick’s collection of prose poems  Learning to have lost   the passing of time, memory, old age, illness, death and how these reso...

Like his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth Faber collection explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A ma...

"We never speak of it, but here we know the land can t be trusted" The debut collection from Cumbrian poet Kate Davis tells a...

Tatiana "Pluta" Spektor was a mostly happy, if awkward, young girl—until her sociologist father was disappeared during Argentin...

A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists. Through four interconnected fables of a wa...

One of my first jobs was as the manager at the Puppet Centre Trust, an organization dedicated to promoting the art of puppetry in the UK....

For the Ute of Southern Colorado, the annual Sun Dance is among the most solemn and sacred of rituals. But too often recently Death has ...

One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to ear...

This review first appeared on my Adventures in the Czech Republic blog , but in case you missed it, here it is: In this strange and l...

Having had to take a break from reviewing due to my heart attack and a family death, I am now back. I aim to be reviewing a book a week, as ...

Jorge Luis Borges declared  The Invention of Morel  a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to  The Turn of the Screw  and  Journey to the...

This is the first post in the Magic Realism Blog Hop 2017. This year 19 blogs are taking part. All are posting about magic realism. Below...

Over on the Magic Realism Books Facebook group I am launching a monthly bookclub. Discussion starts May 1st. The first book we will b...

May 1959. From one side of St. Brigid’s Island, the mountains of Connemara can be glimpsed on the distant mainland; from the other, the A...

Photo; Alice Hendy Last weekend I visited the Strange Worlds exhibition at RWA in Bristol, England. Angela Carter lived in Bristol fro...