Issue 05
Spring 2007
Anna Goodall moons about in a graveyard
An exclusive extract
Why Does Everybody Hate Iain Banks?*
Helen Lewis wonders why bestselling author Iain Banks just can’t make friends in the literary playground
Barnaby Smith takes a look at the political clairvoyance of American literary heavyweight, Norman Mailer
The Brontës Went to Woolworths
By Rachel Ferguson
Virago Modern Classics, 1988
By Ray Bradbury
Simon & Schuster 1953
By Paul Bowles
Penguin, 2004
Back Pages
The Further Adventures of Charles Maxwell-House Esq.
Our plucky correspondent is back at last from Conrad’s dark continent and hot on the trail of Ghosts and Ghouls – with unexpected consequences!