The Receptionist

The Disgruntled Ruminations of an Office Worker meant for Better Things

Parton Bookshop, Soho

In the first in our series exploring the city’s forgotten literary locations, we look at David Archer’s legendary Soho bookshop

List No 1

Does your job wilfully ignore your true talents and boundless creativity? Ride roughshod over your childhood dreams? Is it, in fact, rubbish? Cheer up, you’re in good company…

The Forgotten Prince

Alan White talks to one of Britain's most undervalued poets, Christopher Logue

Has it All Been Said?

After his death in 1973, BS Johnson was largely forgotten. Now the ‘one man avant-garde’ is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

The Curious Case of Dave Bend and the Flying ISLAP Monkey

Ask an Interfering Dowager from a Victorian Novel

The Pharaoh's Paper

After Holden: the lesser-known work of JD Salinger

The Victorian Chaise-longue

By Marghanita Laski
Persephone Books Ltd. 1999

Dreamtigers

By Jorge Luis Borges
University of Texas Press 1985

The Devil's Bathtub

Various
Biscuit Publishing 2005

The Case Files of Charles Maxwell-House Esq., Literary Investigator

Penguin Pusher

Still Looking

PP’s lonely hearts column