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SHOWCASEContributor's Biographies - Index Adrian Grima - Seletected Poetry - Updated 30/9/05 Adrian Manning - Selected Poetry A.D. Winans - Selected Poetry Alan Beard - Story � �Huddersfield Versus Crewe� Alan Bissett - Story - 'Honey, I'm Still Free' - Added 20/3/05 Alan Catlin - Selected Poetry Alan Ram - Story � �Dennis Peter Liddington' - Added 11/4/04� Alan Ram - Story - 'A Cup of Coffee, Eva?' - Added 11/4/04 Alan Ram - Story - 'Make Sure There's Something in the Freezer' - Redesigned 11/4/04 Alan Ram - Story � �Red Wine and Cakes� Alan Ram - Story � �The Piano and Pitcher� Alex Hildegarde - Story � �Rain� A. Igoni Barrett - Story - Eyes of a Barren Witch A. Igoni Barrett - Story - 'The Tempest' - Redesigned 20/6/04 A. Igoni Barrett - Story - 'In the Heat' - Redesigned 20/6/04 A. Igoni Barrett - Story � �Domination� - Added 31/3/06 Alan McWhirter - Story � �The Firegod� Aleathia Drehmer - Selected Poetry Ali Smith - Story - 'The Child' - Added 30/9/05 Alison Craig - Story � �Tribal� Aliya Whiteley - Stories - 'Spitting Wasps' and 'Why Do People Fall in Love' - Updated 8/11/04 Aliya Whiteley - Story - 'Caterpillar' - Updated 20/6/04 Allan Guthrie - Story - 'Love, Rex' - Added 20/6/05 Ally May - Selected Poems Andrew Demcak - Selected Poems Andrew Hook - Story - 'Never Doubt My Love for You' - Added 13/8/04 Andrew Hook - Story � �Streetwalk� Andrew Lander - Selected Poetry Andrew O�Donnell - Selected poetry and prose Andrew Seccombe - Story - 'Mud' - Added 31/9/05 Andy Thatcher - Story � �Talisman� Angela Allitt - Biro Babes - Selected Poems Angela Readman - Selected Poetry Anne Goodwin - Story - 'Washing Dishes at the Old People's Luncheon Club' Annette McCone - Story � �Closure� Annie Forbes Cooper - Story - 'Can't Find My Way Home' - Added 20/3/05 Anny de Foosaf - Story � Dean Street' - Added 20/3/05 Anthony Liccione - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05 April-May March - Selected Poetry Aryan Kaganof - Selected Poetry Aryan Kaganof - Story - 'Rafiki's Parergon (Intuitively� - Added 20/6/05 Aryan Kaganof - Story - 'Casey� - Added 31/3/06 Ashok Chakravarthy - Selected Poetry - Added 20/6/05 Ashok Niyogi - Selected Poetry - Updated 15/01/2006 Audrey Willetts - Biro Babes - Story � �Leather, Talc and Toothpaste� Ben Ashwell - Story - 'Three Beers and Two Joints' Benjamin Constable - Story - 'Beautiful Havana' - Added 27/9/04 Benjamin Constable - Story - 'Sitting With the Dying Woman' - Added 30/9/05 Benyan Ali Sinjin - Story - �Trenchtown Africa� Ben Myers - Selected Poetry Bhupinder D Mahi - Stories - 'My Sister's Death,' 'Breakfast with K' and 'It Matters' and poem, 'We' - Updated 20/3/05 Bobby Womb - Story - A Path of Sin and Suffering Bogdan Tiganov - Selected Poetry - Updated 20/6/05 Bradley Mason Hamlin - Selected Poetry - Added 21/3/04 Brent Hodgson - Poem � �Hello Maister Smyth� Brian Cuninghame - Selected Prose - Added 29/8/04 Brian Cuninghame - Selected Poems Brian Fugett - Selected Poems Brian Reid - Selected Poetry - Added 20/3/05 Calum Cumming - Story - 'Flesher' - Added 8/11/04 Cathy Campbell - Story - 'Imrie' - Added 31/3/06 Carol Novack - Story - 'Crazy Broad' - Added 26/8/04 Catherine M. Valente - Selected Poetry - Added 20/6/05 Charles P. Ries - Selected Poetry - Added 20/3/05 Charlie Skinner - Story � �The Eye of Horus� Charlie Skinner - Story - 'When The Tramps of the City�' - Added 31/9/05 Chris Davis - Story - 'The Abandoned Aardvark' Chris Davis - Story - 'Ramon' Chris Killen - Story - 'The Talking Magritte' - Added 31/9/05 Chris Major - Selected Poems Chrissie Gittins - Story - Unsaid Chrissie Glazebrook - Story - 'The Trip' - Added 8/11/04 Christian Ward - Selected Poetry Christopher Cunningham - Selected Poetry Chris Underwood - Selected Poetry Ciara McLaverty - Selected Poetry Claire Wyburn - Novel Extract - 'Kill Your Speed' - Added 12/6/04 Clare Azzopardi - Story - 'No Adjective Describe Story' - New Story Added 13/8/04 Clare Azzopardi - Story - 'I, The Witness' - Redesigned 30/9/05 Clare Azzopardi - Story � The Green Line Cleveland W. Gibson - Story - 'Charles Trenet's La Mer' - Added 20/3/05 Cleveland W. Gibson - Story - 'Remembering Blue Eyes' - Added 20/6/05 Clive Stelfox - Story - 'The Night Shift' - Added 30/7/04 Colin Jackson - Story � Carson McDermott Craig Kirchner - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05 Craig Terlson - Story � �Reap� Craig Wallwork - Story - The Jesus Toy Craig Wallwork - Story � �The Crocodile� Craig Wallwork - Story � Autumn Leaves C.W. Smith - Story � The Vessel Cynthia Rogerson - Story � Instead of Beauty Damion Hamilton - Selected Poetry - Updated 15/01/2006 Damion Hamilton - Story � The First Time Dan Fante - Story - 'Princess' - Added 2/9/04 Dan Fante - Story - 'Mae West' - Added 31/3/06 Dan McNeil - Two Stories - Added 7/7/04 Dan Pearson - Story � �A Champion Day at the Maltings� Dan Provost - Selected Poetry - Updated 20/6/05 Dan Schneider - Story - 'Angels and Gangsters - Part 2' - Added 20/3/05 Dan Schneider - Story - 'Angels and Gangsters Part 1' - Added 31/12/04 Dave Hemmings - Selected Poems David C. Card - Story - 'Hall of Mirrors' - Added 31/9/05 Davide Trame - Selected Poems Added 20/6/04 David Floyd - Selected Poems David LaBounty - Selected Poetry David Gardiner - Story � �A Man of Letters� David McNamara - Story � �My Hero� David Plumb - Selected Poetry David Niall Wilson - Story � The Games of Our Fathers David Veronese - Story � �Bolivia� David Veronese - Story � �The Sunshine Club� Dawn Wood - Selected Poems & Art D.B. Cox - Story - Last Angel in Underland D.B. Cox - Selected Poetry - Updated 30/9/05 D.B. Cox - Story - 'Boundaries' - Added 30/9/05 D.B. Cox - Story � Fixed as Fate Debbie Kirk - Selected Poems - Updated 30/9/05 Debra Broughton - Story � �Not Guilty' - Added 20/3/05 Dee Rimbaud - Selected Poems & Art Delphine Lecompte - Selected Prose - 'Rage on the Page' - Updated 20/3/05 Derek Ostuni - Selected Poetry Derek Ramsay - Story - 'Chords' Added 20/3/05 Digby Beaumont - Story - 'Nightsweeper' Digby Beaumont - Story � Dreaming of Kathy Burke Dominic Burgess - Selected Poems Don Winter - Selected Poetry Doug Draime - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05 Doug Holder - Selected Poetry Doug Tanoury - Selected Poetry Drew Gummerson - Story - 'The Man in the Caravan' - Added 24/8/04 D. Richard Scannell - Selected Poetry Dundee Art Angel - Selected writing from the group Eddie Jeffrey - Story � �Last Day' - Added 20/3/05 Eddie Jeffrey - Story � Grits Eddie Kilowatt - Selected Poetry Eddie Willson - Story - 'The Power of Love' - Added 18/4/04 Edmund Gordon - Story - 'Clumsy' - Added 31/12/04 Elena Georgiou - Poem � 'A Week in the Life of the Ethnically Indeterminate' Elizabeth Glixman - Story - 'Mother's Bony Behind' - Added 8/11/04 Elizabeth Glixman - Story - 'The Shoe Salesman from Japan' - Redesigned 20/6/04 Elizabeth P. Glixman - Story - 'Ordinary Fame' Elizabeth P. Glixman - Story - 'A Thousand Drawings of Edgar' Emily Stueven - Selected Poems Eveline Pye - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05 Fisher Thompson - Story - 'Kildeer U.' - Added 20/3/05 F.N. Wright - Selected Poetry - Updated 30/6/05 Frank Burton - Story - The Point Garan Holcombe - Story � �Sleeping Tablets' - Added 20/3/05 Gary Beck - Story - 'Extended Meeting' Gary Beck - Story � �Varner�s Dilemma' - Added 20/3/05 Gay Read Short Story Competition 2003 - The Winning Stories - Added 20/3/04 George Sparling - Story - The Hole George Sparling - Story - 'Ugly Beauty' - Added 31/12/04 Gerard Hanberry - Selected Poetry G.N. Harris - Story - 'The Business Trip' - Added 20/3/05 G.N. Harris - Story - 'Therapy Session' - Added 8/6/04 G.N. Harris - Story - 'Reality Chick' - Added 20/6/05 Godfrey Featherstone - Story � �And Weel No Wot to Do� Gordon Legge - Story - My Heart and I Agree Graham Rae - Articles � �No Fight Club' & 'Demented Conversation' - Updated 20/6/05 Graham Stack - Story - 'My Last Chance' Graham Stack - Selected Prose Grant D. McLeman - Selected Poetry Gregory Vincent St. Thomasina - Selected Poetry Hazel Deal - Story � �Lick� - Added 31/3/06 Haytham al-Wardany - Story � �Pissing on the World� Heather Macleod - Story - 'Star-Crossed' - Added 31/12/04 Heather Macleod - Selected Poetry - Added 18/11/04 Heather Macleod - Story � �Party Girl� - Added 31/3/06 Heidi James - Story - 'Proteus Cabinet' - Added 20/3/05 Heidi James - Story - 'Two Birds With One Stone' - Added 8/11/04 Heidi James - Story - 'Clementine' Heidi James - Story � �Bones� Heidi James - Story � �Brittany� - Added 31/3/06 Helen Walsh - Novel Extract � �The Easby� Helen Walsh - Synopsis of novel in progress H.P. Tinker - Paul Gaugain Trapped on the 37th Floor Ian Dowson - Selected Prose - Added 8/11/04 Ian Hocking - Story - 'Under the Limes' - Story replaced 20/3/05 Iain Bahlaj - Story � �Scotland the Brave� Iain Bahlaj - Story � �Hairy Baby� Iain James Robb - Selected Poetry Ilona Lagowski-Timoszuk - Selected Poetry Iman Nielstroy - Story � On Love and Loss Immanuel Mifsud - Story - 'Ruby' - Updated 30/9/05 Jacci Garside - Poem � �Jerusalem� James O'Shea - Selected Poetry James Quinton - Selected Poems - Updated 20/3/05 Jamie Lin - Story - Lost Jamie Lin - Story - A Butterfly Kiss Jan Litvak - Selected Writing Jason Fisk - Selected Poems Jason Jackson - Story � Playing the Game Jeff Callawy - Selected Poetry Jenn Ashworth - Story - 'There is Wrapping Paper on My Skirt' Jennifer VanBuren - Selected Poems J.L. Williams - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05 Joel Van Noord - Story - 'Los Inciendos' Joel Van Noord - Story - Women and Reptiles Joel Van Noord - Story - 'Shrug (Slug)' - Added 31/9/05 Joel Van Noord - Story � One-Up Joel Van Noord - Story � Baja, Pussy, Drugs and a Fight Joel Van Noord - Story � Extremes or Mother Fucking Life J.J. Campbell - Selected Poetry J.L. Williams - Story - 'A Boy She Knew' John Dorsey - Poem - 'Ambient Nation: The New Vietnam' - Added 31/12/04 John Dorsey - Story - 'The Saint of the Copa Cabana' - Added 30/9/04 John Glenday - Selected Poems John Logan - Story - 'Masochism' - Added 31/12/04 John Sweet - Selected Poetry - Updated 15/01/2006 Jonathan Stone - Poem � �Tatoos� Jools Hudson - Story - 'Firestarter Red' - Added 31/9/05 Joseph Ridgwell - Story - Knitting Needles Joseph Ridgwell - Story - Saturday Night Joseph Ridgwell - Story - Candice Joshua James - Story - 'Me, Ryan and the Beaver' - Added 30/9/04 Joshua James - Story - 'The Best Sex I Ever Had' - Redesigned 20/6/04 Judith Alapi Higgins - Story - Nobody's Fault Judith Alapi Higgins - Story � �The Colour of Sunday� Judith Alapi Higgins - Story � �Gaudeamus Igitur� Judith Alapi Higgins - Story � �The 7:45� - Added 31/3/06 Judith Alapi Higgins - Story � Figs and Chocolates Justin Barrett - Selected Poems - Added 22/4/04 Justin Hyde - Selected Poetry Kara Kellar Bell - Story - 'South by South East' - Updated 25/9/04 Kara Kellar Bell - Story - �Mermaids� Kara Kellar Bell - Story - �Winter's Tale� Kara Kellar Bell - Story - �Songs of Contentment Ended� - Added 31/3/06 Karen Macleod - Selected Prose - Added 18/6/04 Karen McKenna - Selected Poems - Added 20/6/05 Karl Kowesky - Story - 'Holly Go Darkly' - Added 20/3/05 Karl Koweski - Selected Poems Katherine May - Story - 'Ten Ordinary Tales' - Added 20/6/04 Kathleen Kiirik Bryson - Story - 'The Werfox' - Added 23/4/04 Kathleen Kiirik Bryson - Novel Extract � �Hosanna by the Black Shards� Kathleen Kiirik Bryson - Synopsis of Novel in Progress Kathy Polenberg - Selected Poetry Keith Armstrong - Selected Poetry - Updated 15/01/2006 Ken Averill - Story � �A Case of the Fear� - replaced by 'The Debtors' - 26/8/04 Kevin Higgins - Selected Poetry - Added 20/6/05 Kevin MacNeil - Poems � �Menstrual Unchameleon� and �Every Month� Kevin Williamson - Selected Poetry Kiran Bharthapudi - Story - Conversation With a War Veteran Kiran Bharthapudi - Story � �What Went Wrong?� Kirk Miller - Story � �That She May Be Dead� Kirsti Wishart - Story � �The Whisky Dreamers' - Added 20/3/05 K.M. Dersley - Selected Poetry - Added 1/6/04 Kristine Ong Muslim - Selected Poetry Kyoko Gardiner - Story - 'Songs Over My Sunken Garden' - Added 20/6/05 Kyoko Gardiner - Story � �Tuesday Afternoon' - Added 20/6/05 Larry Chiaramonte - Story - 'The Impatient Patient at a New York City Hospital' - Added 31/9/05 Laura Hird - Story - A Day in the Life of a Cove Park Resident Lee Reynoldson - Story - 'Kayaking for Beginners' Lee Rourke - Story - I'm Not Going Back There Again, Me Lee Rourke - Story - 'Joe Blow�' - Added 31/9/05 Leon B. Stern - Story - Titles Lisa Zaran - Selected Poetry Liz Finch - Story � �Help With Writing Letters� Lucy Brown - Story - Showtime Luke Boyd - Selected Poems Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal - Selected Poems - Updated 20/6/05 Lyn Lifshin - Selected Poetry Maria Grech Ganado - Selected Poems - Updated 30/9/05 Maria Grech Ganado - Story � �Inside William� Marion Arnott - Story - 'A Small Miracle' - Added 31/12/04 Marion Arnott - Story � �Angel� Marc Barber - Story - 'Coat Flying' - Added 29/3/04 Mark Colbourne - Story � �Any Card� Marc Goldin - Story - 'Transformer' - Added 20/3/05 Marc Goldin - Story - 'Plastic Paddy' - Added 14/7/04 Marc Goldin - Selected Poetry - Added 15/01/06 Marc Goldin - Story - Tulum Marco Montalto - Selected Poetry Marc Pietrzykowski - Selected Poems Marilynn M. Wilkins - Story � �Curve Ball� - Added 15/01/06 Mark Brown - Story � �The Cows� Mark Edwards - Selected Poetry Mark Fleming - Story - Dragons Mark Fleming - Story - White Gloves Mark Fleming - Story � �The Double of My Cousin From Fife� Mark Gallacher - Story - 'Bluebell' - Added 20/3/05 Mark Gallacher - Story - 'Grace Williams' - Added 30/6/04 Mark Gallacher - Story � I Know You Mark Gallacher - Story � The Question Mark Howard Jones - Story - Becalmed Mark SaFranco - Story - 'The Laugher of the Clown' - Added 31/9/05 Mark Turley - Story - �On Road� Mark Vanner - Selected Poetry Mark Vanner - Story � Love in D Minor 7# Mark Williamson - Story � �Physical Grafitti� Martin Blyth - Selected Poems - Added 19/6/04 Martin Green - Story - 'Intimations' - Added 31/12/04 Mary McCluskey - Story - 'Death Wish' - Added 20/6/04 Matt Hassell - Story - 'Chef' - Added 31/12/04 Matt Hassell - Story - April Matt Hassell - Story - 'Zemlinsky Must Die' - Added 15/01/06 Matthew Devereux - Selected Poetry - Added 31/12/04 Matthew Firth - Story � �Exodus 10� Matthew Firth - Story - 'Smooth With the Ladies' - Added 30/9/05 Matt Smith - Selected Poems Maurice Oliver - Selected Poetry Max Dunbar - Story � �Memories of a Wild Weekend in Sheffield� M. Blake - Story - 'It Comes Back' - Added 20/6/05 M. Blake - Story - 'Clark and Corona' - New story added 24/8/04 Megan Hall - Story - 'The Best Days of Your Life' Megan Hall - Story - Schemies and Jambo Cunts Megan Hall - Story � �Playground Twist� Megan Hall - Story � �Soul on Ice� Megan Hall - Story � Starethrough Eyes Megan Hall - Story � Let it Bleed Megan Hornbuckle - Stories � �At the Back of the Queue� and �The Chicken at the Door� Melissa Mann - Story - 'Road-Kill' Melissa Mann - Story - 'Floater' M. Frias-May - Story - Groundhog Day, 1984 M. Frias-May - Story � �The Desert Rose� - Added 31/3/06 M. Frias-May - Story � Pico Michael Gardiner - Story - 'The Edinburgh Festival' - Added 31/9/05 Michael Gardiner - Story - 'Laptopia' - Added 31/9/05 Michael Gardiner - Story � Gap Year Michael Internicola - Selected Poetry - Added 13/9/04 Michael James Treacy - Selected Poems Michael Keenaghan - Story - Life Sentence Michael Keenaghan - Story � �Money Power Respect� - Added 31/3/06 Michael Keenaghan - Story � Tottenham Forever Michael Keenaghan - Story � Gangsters Michael Keenaghan - Story � Fuck That for a Game of Soldiers Michael Lee Johnson - Selected Poetry Michael Paul Ladanyi - Selected Poetry - Added 20/3/05 Michael Loughrey - Story - 'Geophagy' Michelle McGrane - Selected Poetry Michelle Reale - Story - 'His Mother's Son' Michelle Walsh - Selected Poems Mikael Covey - Story - 'Momma Can You Hear Me?' Mike Boyle - Story - Nick's Shadow Mike Boyle - Story � �The House of the Rising Sun' - Added 20/3/05 Mike Estabrook - Selected Poetry Mikel K - Novel Extract - The Delivery Guy - Added 9/4/04 Miles J. Bell - Selected Poems Misha Cahill - Story - 'Like in Bed' Misti Rainwater-Lites - Selected Poetry Moira McPartlin - Story - 'Torque' Mona McKinlay - Story - Selected Prose Morag McDowell - Story - 'The Love You Need' - Story added 20/6/05 Muhammad Nasrullah Khan - Story - 'The Dying Man' - Added 14/6/04 Murray Robertson - Story � �Glesga� Nathan Hamlett - Story - 'Paintball' - Added 31/9/05 Nathan Tyree - Selected Poems Neil Ayres - Story - 'What Sex the Sky?' - Added 31/12/04 Neil Ayres - Story - 'Changeling' - Added 29/4/04 Neil Cocker - Story - 'Lithuanian Homesick Blues' Neil Cocker - Story - 'Blood Pudding' - Added 20/6/04 Neil Cocker - Story � Zombie-Boy and the Secret Engineers Neil Cocker - Story � Dustmetal Gray Neville Clay - Selected Poems Niamh � Leoch�in - Stories � �Thoughts of Someone Who Cannot Speak� and �Black Label� Niamh � Leoch�in - Selected Poetry - Added 31/9/05 Nicholas Morgan - Story - Tis the Season Nicholas Osbourne - Story � �The Incredible Flight of Birdman� - Added 31/3/06 Nick Dockerty - Selected Poetry - Added 19/9/04 Nick Dockerty - Story - 'Radox' - Added 20/6/04 Nicole Taylor - Story - 'Better' - Added 30/3/06 Nora Nadjarian - Selected Poetry - Added 20/6/05 Nora Nadjarian - Selected Prose - Added 31/3/065 Norbert Bugeja - Selected Poetry 2 Owen Roberts - Selected Poems - Updated 31/12/04 Papa Osmubal - Selected Poetry - Updated 20/3/05 Patricia Golledge - Poem � �The Rugby Pitch Bathed in Wintry Sun� Paul Anthony Scott - Selected Poetry - Added 24/8/04 Paul Houghton - Story - 'Projection' - Added 31/12/04 Paul Houghton - Story � �The House at the Edge of the World� Paul Kavanagh - Story - Sawol Paul Kavanagh - Story - 'The Unfinished Story' Paul Kavanagh - Story - 'Buffa' - Added 31/9/05 Paul Kavanagh - Story � Ten Pence Paul Kavanagh - Story � Prison Paul Kavanagh - Story � X Paul Martin - Story - 'Shattered' - Added 24/4/04 Paul Summers - Selected Poems Peter McCabe - Story - 'In Limbo' - Added 31/3/06 Philip Quinn - Story - 'The Preserved Cowboy Dreams of a Cum-Filled Sky' - Added 20/3/05 The Poet Spiel - Selected Poetry Polly Clark - Selected Poetry Rachel Fox - Selected Poetry Rachel Lawrence - Story - 'The Swing' - Added 31/9/05 Ralph Lopez - Story - 'Quebec City' - Added 5/6/04 Ranjit Sinha Roy - Story - 'The Distant Star' - Added 20/6/05 Ranjit Sinha Roy - Story - 'The Roadside Story' - Redesigned 20/6/04 Ranjit Sinha Roy - Story - 'Story of a Housewife' - Added 31/3/06 R.D. Larson - Story - 'Lipstick and Powder' - Added 31/3/06 Richard Cabut - Selected Poetry Richard Cabut - Story - 'Get the Picture' - Added 20/3/05 Richard Cabut - Story - 'Get It On' - Added 30/9/05 Richard J. Parfitt - Story � Iris Rik Haslam - Story - Black Ties R.K. Wallace - Selected Poetry Robert Ciesla - Story - 'The Scent of a Cherished Robe' - Added 31/12/04 Robert Ciesla - Story - 'Petting Rabbits' - Added 17/6/04 Robert Ewing - Story � Duncan Westwater, First Minister Robert Scott Leyse - Story � Why Waste English Setters on Dog Shows Rob Marshall - Selected Poetry Rob Marshall - Story � �Robbie Bach and I' - Added 20/3/05 Rob Plath - Selected Poetry Rob Rosen - Stories - 'Shut Your Eyes and Pray' and 'Bunny and Hoppy' - Updated 8/11/04 Rob Rosen - Story � �When You Wish Upon a Scar� - Added 31/3/06 Rob Woodard - Selected Poetry Rodge Glass - Story - 'Extract from a Life' - Added 20/6/05 Rodge Glass - Novel Extract � The Apple Rodge Glass - Selected Poetry Ronald Baatz - Selected Poetry Ronald Collins - Selected Poetry Rosalind Wyllie - Story - 'Defying Gravity' Rosalind Wyllie - Story � �Departures� Rosanne Rabinowitz - Story � �These Boots' - Added 20/3/05 Ross Wilson - Story - 'Pick Pick Pick' - Added 8/11/04 Ross Wilson - Story � �Weird Goings on with the Heads of Other People� Ruben Palma - Story � �Isabel�s Performance' - Added 20/3/05 Russell Bittner - Story - Publish or Perish Russell Bittner - Selected Poems - Added 20/6/05 R.W. Hurst - Selected Poems Safaa Ennagar - Amoeba Salman Shaheen - Selected Poetry - Added 30/9/05 Sam Beebe - Story - 'The Arsonist' Sandra Graham - Biro Babes - Stories - �Chelsea Hotel Revisited� and �Icons� Sarah Chair - Story - 'The Kingdom of the Blind' - Added 20/6/05 Sarah Roberts - Story - The Love Scene Scott Fraser - Story - Here I Sit Sean McGahey - Story - Shudder Sean McGahey - Story - 'Last Act' - Added 20/3/05 Sean McGahey - Story - '1-800-Spunk' - Added 31/3/06 Shane Allison - Selected Poems - Updated 20/3/05 Shug Hanlon - Selected Prose Stanley Borg - Poem - 'A City Beseeched' - Added 7/4/04 Stephen J. Golds - Story - 'Esmerelda' Stephen J. Golds - Selected Stories - New story added 20/6/05 Stephen J. Golds - Novel Extract � Sunday, Sunday Stephen J. Golds - Story � Old Stephen J. Golds - Story � Warm Lager Stephen Shieber - Story - 'Sunday Lunch' Stephen Shieber - Story � Being Normal The Poet Spiel - Prose Poem - Sammy Steve Ely - Story - American Patriot Steve Ely - Story - Sammy Steven Gillis - Story - 'In Elba Above Our Heads' Steven Porter - Selected Poems - Added 30/9/05 Steven Porter - Two Stories Steve Smith - Story � �The Nearest Thing� Steve Smith - Story � �The Outsider� Steve Wheeler - Story - 'The Piper' - Added 31/9/05 Steve Wheeler - Story - 'The North Cormorant' - Added 31/9/05 Stuart Thorogood - Story � �The Other Way� Suhayl Saadi - Story � �Extra Time� Susan Culver - Selected Poetry Susan Nacsa - Selected Poetry Tania Hershman - Story - 'Sunspots' Tara Hanks - Novel Prologue - 'Wicked Baby' - Added 5/6/04 Terry Rogers - Story � Lessons to the Editor Thom Jacques - Story - Eggs Tom Murray - Selected Poetry Toni Davidson - Story - Like a Pendulum in Glue Tony O'Neill - Story - 'Notes From a Shipwrecked Harbour' Tony O'Neill - Two Stories - Added 20/3/05 Tony O'Neill - Story - 'Nothing Shocking' - Added 20/11/04 Tony O'Neill - Selected Poetry - Added 20/1/06 Tracey Emerson - Story - Under the Gloss Tracy Patrick - Story � �Growing Pains� - Added 31/3/06 Trev Taylor - Stories � �Sophie� and �Slippers on the Table� Vanja Kovacic - Story - Rotten Like the Gutter Wayne Wolfson - Selected Prose - Updated 4/10/06 William Taylor Jr. - Selected Poetry - Updated 20/6/05 William Taylor Jr. - Story - 'The Wallet' - Added 20/6/05 Willie Smith - Selected Prose - Added 20/6/05 Willie Smith - Selected Prose - Added 31/3/06 Zack Wilson - Story - 'Sheffield Fragments' Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Hart Crane By Moonlight' Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Happy Birthday' - Added 31/9/05 Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Marvell�s Lovers' - Added 31/9/05 Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Uncle Otto' - Added 31/3/06 Zsolt Alapi - Story - 'Perdido' THE NEW REVIEW - Index
BOOK REVIEWS'Writing At the Edge' - ed. Zsolt Alapi here'Baby Zero' - Emer Martin here 'I Crossed the Minch' - Louis MacNeice here 'Lounge Lizard' - Mark SaFranko here 'In a Room Darkened' - Kevin Williamson here 'Night and the City' - Gerald Kersh here 'Foolish Mortals' - Jennifer Johnston here 'No One Belongs Here More Than You' - Miranda July here 'A Pretty Face' - Raphael Reig here 'Black Rabbit and Other Stories' - Salvatore Difalco here 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' - Joyce Carol Oates here 'If You Liked School, You'll Love Work' - Irvine Welsh here 'Chronicle in Stone' - Ismail Kadare here 'Darling' - Jackie Kay here 'The Legal Fiction...' - Lowell B. Komie here 'The Bone Garden' - Tess Gerritsen here 'On Chesil Beach' - Ian McEwan here 'Demon Eyes' - LH Maynard here 'Saints of Hysteria' - D. Duhamel, M Seaton here 'Park City, New and Selected Stories' - Ann Beattie here 'Gold' - Dan Rhodes here 'Love Letters From My Death-Bed' - Cynthia Rogerson here 'Songs from the Shooting Gallery' - Tony O'Neill here 'Poor People' - William T. Vollmann here 'The Blackest Bird' - Joel Rose here 'Generation Loss' - Elizabeth Hand here 'The Testament of Gideon Mack' - James Robertson here 'In My Skin' - Kate Holden here 'Dollhouse' - Mike Boyle here 'The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith' - Douglas MacGowan here 'Apples' - Richard Milward here 'Paraphernalia' - Joanne Limburg here 'This Life, This Life' - Andrew Greig here 'Arlington Park' - Rachel Cusk here 'In a Town Called Mundomuerto' - Randall Silvis here 'The Angry Gods' - Wendy Brandmark here 'Abandoned and Forgotten' - Evelyne Tannehill here 'The Moving Coffin' - Ed Gorman here 'It's Not News, It's Fark...' - Drew Curtis here 'South of the River' - Blake Morrison here 'Drugs are Nice' - Lisa Crystal Carver here 'Fired: Tales of the Canned, Cancelled, Downsized & Dismissed' - Annabelle Gurwitch here 'The English Harem' - Anthony McCarten here 'Dear Laura: Letters from a Mother to Her Daughter' - June & Laura Hird - # 'There Are Little Kindoms' - Kevin Barry - # 'The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 1 - ed. Philip Gourevitch - # 'The Observations' - Jane Harris - # 'Everyman' - Philip Roth - # 'Down the Angel & Up the Holloway' - ed. Lane Ashfeldt - # 'The Letters That Never Came' - Mauricio Rosencof - # 'Stuart, A Life Backwards' - Alexander Masters - # 'Stalin's Wars' - Geoffrey Roberts - # 'What Was Lost' - Catherine O'Flynn - # 'Hotel California' - Barney Hoskyns - # 'A Clean Sweep?' - T. David Curp - # 'Graffiti My Soul' - Niven Govinden - # 'Come Here Cowboy' - Spiel - # 'Hard Man' - Allan Guthrie - # 'Eating Myself' - Candida Crewe - # 'How Very Interesting' - Peter Cook Appreciation Society - # 'Phobic' - ed. Andy Murray - # 'Suburban Pornography and Other Stories' - Matthew Firth - here 'These Are Our Lives: Stories' - ed. Declan Meade -here 'The Raw Shark Texts' - Steven Hall -here 'Remainder' - Tom McCarthy -here 'Bird of the Devil' - Edited and Illustrated by Edward Summerton - here 'Decapolis: Tales from Ten Cities' - ed. Maria Crossan - here 'Hope and Other Urban Tales' - Laura Hird - here 'Black Girl/White Girl' - Joyce Carol Oates - here 'Magnetic North: New Writing by North East Writers' - ed. Claire Malcolm - here 'Empty Frames' - D.B. Cox - here 'The Scent of Your Breath' - Melissa P. -here 'Brotherhood of the Grape' - Dan Fante - here 'The Game' - Neil Strauss - here 'Don't Think of an Elephant' - George Lakoff - here 'Gilead' - Marilynne Robinson - here 'Any Human Heart' - William Boyd - here 'An Evolutionary Psychology of Sleep & Dreams' - Patrick McNamara - here 'After the Quake' - Haruki Murakami - here 'The Collected Stories' - Grace Paley - here The Road - Cormac McCarthy Crack of Doom - Liza Granville The Edgier Waters: New Writing from Literary Upstarts - ed. 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Robert Lennon - Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite - Added 31/03/06 �Digging the Vein� by Tony O�Neill - Reviewed by Zsolt Alapi - Added 31/03/06 �Hating Olivia� by Mark SaFranko - Reviewed by Mike Ferraro - Added 31/03/06 �Mother Missing� by Joyce Carol Oates - Reviewed by Gary Couzens - Added 15/01/06 �Misteress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim� by Mary V. Dearborn - Reviewed by Michelle McGrane - Added 31/03/06 �Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African� by Liz McGregor - Reviewed by Michelle McGrane - Added 31/03/06 �One Pill Makes You Smaller� by Lisa Dierbeck - Reviewed by Michelle McGrane - Added 15/01/06 �No God But God� by Reza Aslan - Reviewed by Salman Shaheen - Added 15/01/06 �Ellipsis 1: Comma Modern Shorts� - Reviewed by Robin M. 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Albarelli Jr. - Added 30/9/05 'Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft' by Peter Levenda - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 30/9/05 'No Country for Old Men' by Cormac McCarthy - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 30/9/05 'Two-Way Split' by Allan Guthrie - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 20/6/05 'Children at War' by Peter Moore Smith - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 20/6/05 'Los Angeles' by P.W. Singer - Reviewed by H.P. Albarelli Jr. - Added 20/6/05 'Success... And How to Avoid it' by Mat Coward - Reviewed by Peter Tennant - Added 20/3/05 'Odd' by Charles P. Ries - Reviewed by Kris Rued-Clark - Added 20/3/05 'Passing for Blue' by D.B. Cox - Reviewed by Laura Hird - Added 20/3/05 �Born Free� by Laura Hird - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 31/03/06 �Poems for the Retired Nihilist� edited by Graham Bendel - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 31/03/06 �One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed� by Melissa P. - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 15/01/06 'Women as Lovers' by Elfriede Jelinek - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05 'The Piano Teacher' by Elfriede Jelinek - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05 'Chicken Bones' by Michael Paul Ladanyi - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05 'Frank O�Hara: Selected Poems' ed. by Donald Allen - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 30/9/05 'Notice' by Heather Lewis - Reviewed by Sean Walsh - Added 20/3/05 'Book of Resurrection'by Mark Hartenbach - Reviewed by D.B. Cox - Added 20/3/05 �The Complete Stories� by Truman Capote - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 31/03/06 �A Multitude of Sins� by Richard Ford - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 31/03/06 �Tropic of Cancer� and �Tropic of Capricorn� by Henry Miller - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 15/01/06 �The Collected Stories� by Evan S. Connell - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 15/01/06 �Mr Bridge� and �Mrs Bridge� by Evan S. Connell - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 15/01/06 'The Stories of John Cheever' by John Cheever - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 30/9/05 'Sanctuary' by William Faulkner - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/6/05 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/3/05 'Girl Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/3/05 'Getting Mother's Body' by Suzan-Lori Parks - Reviewed by Dan Schneider - Added 20/3/05 'How We Should Rule Ourselves' by Alasdair Gray & Adam Tomkins - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 15/01/06 'Sexual Healing' by Jill Nelson - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 30/9/05 'The Incredible Adam Spark' by Alan Bissett - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 30/9/05 'Who Killed Mr Drum?' by Sylvester Stein - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 20/6/05 'Hell of a Journey' by Mike Cawthorne - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 20/3/05 'Owen Noone and the Marauder' by Douglas Cowie - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Added 31/12/04 'Out of Mind' by Sam Hayes - Reviewed by Moira McPartlin - Reviewed 31/12/04 'Shoe Fly Baby: The Asham Award Short Stories' - edited by Kate Pullinger - Reviewed by Ryan Williams - Added 31/2/04 'Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace' by Prakash Kona - Reviewed by Tim West - Added 30/9/05 'The Eye of Cybele' by Daniel Chavarria - Reviewed by Tim West - Added 20/6/05 'The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh' by Chian Lee - Reviewed by Tim West - Added 31/12/04 'The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley - Reviewed by Tim Foster - Added 31/12/04 'Doing It' by Melvin Burgess - Reviewed by Rachel Evans - Added 20/3/05 'Mop Men: California's Crime Scene Cleaners' - by Alan Emmins - Reviewed by Rachel Evans - Added 19/11/04 'Like the Night (Revisted)' - by C.P. Lee - Reviewed by Ecky Lum - Added 8/11/04 �Betrayal� by Karin Alvtegen - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 31/03/06 �Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen� by Arielle Eckstut - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 15/01/06 'The Secrets She Keeps' by Helen Cross - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 30/9/05 'The In-between World of Vikram Lall' by Kathy Watson - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 20/6/05 'The Devil Kissed Her: The Life of Mary Lamb' by Kathy Watson - Reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami - Added 2/10/04 'Observing Life While Drinking Rat Milk' by Dan Provost - Reviewed by Brian Cuninghame - Added 12/9/04 'Nothing Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith' - Reviewed by Ron Collins - Added 16/9/04 'The Price of Salt' by Patricia Highsmith - Reviewed by Ron Collins - Added 2/9/04 'The Sound of White Ants' by Brian Howell - Reviewed by Robert Ciesla - Added 30/8/04 'London Revenant' by Conrad Williams - Reviewed by Gary McMahon - Added 5/8/04 'Divine Filth: The Lost Writings of Georges Bataille' - Reviewed by David Johnson - Added 20/6/05 'The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche' - Reviewed by David Johnson - Added 27/7/04 'Gilead' by Marilynne Robinson - Reviewed by Mark Gallacher - Added 30/9/04 'The Book of Illusions' by Paul Auster - Reviewed by Mark Gallacher - Added 15/7/04 'Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton' by Stewart Home - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/6/05 '1982 Janine' by Alasdair Gray - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 30/9/05 'Only Anarchists are Pretty' by Mick O'Shea - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/3/05 'Wheels Out of Gear' by Dave Thompson - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/3/05 'The End of Elsewhere: Travels Amongst the Tourists' by Taras Grescoe - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 20/3/05 'Voyageurs' by Margaret Elphinstone - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 30/9/04 'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 22/9/04 'The Rum Diary' by Hunter S. Thompson - Reviewed by Marc Goldin - Added 22/6/04 �Beyond Black' by Hilary Mantel - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/03/06 �Protestant Boy' by Geoffrey Beattie - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/03/06 �Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore' by Bettany Hughes - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/03/06 �Travel Light' by Naomi Mitchison - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 15/01/06 �We Need to Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 15/01/06 'Under African Skies: Modern African Short Stories' ed. by Charles R. Larson - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 30/9/05 �Lord of Illusions' by Dilys Rose - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 30/9/05 'The People's Act of Love' by James Meek - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/6/05 'The History of Love' by Nicole Krauss - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05 'The Ice Museum' by Joanna Kavenna - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05 'Mad Mary Lamb' by Susan Tyler Hitchcock - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05 'Runaway' by Alice Munro - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 20/3/05 'McCrae's Batallion: The Story of the 16th Royal Scots' by Jack Alexander - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/12/04 'Telling Tales' edited by Nadine Gordimer - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 31/12/04 'A Bit on the Side' by William Trevor - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 7/10/04 'The Wee Book of Calvin: Air-Kissing in the North-East' by Bill Duncan - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 18/9/04 'Vivaldi and the Number 3' by Ron Butlin - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 13/9/04 'Boy A' by Jonathan Trigell - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 7/7/04 'The McGovan Casebook: Experiences of a Detective in Victorian Edinburgh' by James McGovan - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 2/7/04 'Fear of de Sade' by Bernardo Carvalho - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 16/6/04 'A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali' by Gil Courtemanche - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 2/6/04 'Tamburlaine Must Die' by Louise Welsh - Reviewed by Marion Arnott - Added 23/5/04 �An Iraqi in Paris� - by Samuel Shimon - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/03/06 �Purgatory� - by Paul Auster - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 15/01/06 �Sardines and Oranges: Short Stories From North Africa' - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 15/01/06 'Whispers in the Dark' by Liza Granville - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 30/9/05 'Death of a Prima Donna' by Brina Svit - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 30/9/05 'Secrets: The Scotsman & Orange Short Story Award 2005' ed. by Janice Galloway - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 30/9/05 'Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS' by Helga Schneider - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'Incognita' by William Congreve - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'Almanacs' by Jen Hadfield - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'The Wall' by Jean-Paul Sartre - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'The Point of Splitting' by Sally Read - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'Stevenson Under the Palm Trees' by Alberto Manguel - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'Ghosts at Cockcrow' by Stewart Conn - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'Until the Final Hour' by Traudl Junge - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'Life Mask' by Jackie Kay - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'Stillness' by Courtney Angela Brkic - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/6/05 'The Duel' by Giacomo Casanova - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05 'Nights of Akhenaton' by Agnes Nemes Nagy - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - font color="red">Added 20/3/05 'The Devil's Pool' by George Sand - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05 'Apology for a Murder' by Lorenzino de' Medici - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05 'Stasiland' by Anna Funder - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05 'The Tree House' by Kathleen Jamie - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05 'Ground Water' by Matthew Hollis - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 20/3/05 'Berlin Interiors' edited by Angelika Taschen - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/12/04 'Jar City' by Arnuldar Indridason - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/12/04 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/12/04 'Empire of the Wolves by Jean-Christophe Grange - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 8/11/04 'Being Alive' - Edited by Neil Astley - Added 8/11/04 'The Knuckle End' - Edited by Adrian Searle - Added 8/11/04 'My Name is Light' by Elsa Osorio - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 8/10/04 'Give Me Songs for Lovers' by Irina Denezhkina - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 31/8/04 'Transformation' by Mary Shelley - reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 24/8/04 'Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire' by Ruy Castro - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 13/8/04 'North: The Scotsman & Orange Short Story Award 2004' - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 6/8/04 'The Quest for Charles Rennie Mackintosh' by John Cairney - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 1/8/04 'Bad Attitudes' by Agnes Owens - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - 29/7/04 'Tropical Truth' by Caetano Veloso - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 16/7/04 'Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith' by Andrew Wilson - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 3/7/04 'The Lover's Watch' by Aphra Behn - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 28/6/04 'Whoever You Choose to Love' by Colette Paul - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 23/6/04 'Haunted Weather' by David Toop - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 12/6/04 'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 7/6/04 'The Butcher' by Alina Reyes - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 18/5/04 'Without Blood' by Alessandro Baricco - Reviewed by Kara Kellar Bell - Added 17/5/04 'Night and Fear' by Cornell Woolrich - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 20/6/05 'The Elastic Book of Numbers' - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 20/3/05 'The Golem by Gustav Meyrink - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 31/12/04 'Terror Tales #2' - Ed. John B. Ford & Paul Kane - Reviewed by Mario Guslandi - Added 8/7/04 'Blag' by Tony Saint - Reviewed by Laurence Inman - Added 11/7/04 �The Fahrenheit Twins� By Michel Faber - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 15/01/06 'Cloud Atlas' By David Mitchell - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 20/6/05 'The Book of Voices' Edited by Michael Butscher - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 20/6/05 'City, Silver, Sister' by Jachym Topol - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 31/12/04 'Moon Beaver ' by Andrew Hook - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 19/7/04 'The Terror from Beyond Middle England' by Sarah Crabtree - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 19/7/04 'Refusal Shoes' by Tony Saint - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 28/6/04 'Castles Made of Sand' by Gwyneth Jones - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 15/5/04 'Guide for the Perplexed' by Gilad Atzmon - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 11/5/04 'Not the End of the World' by Kate Atkinson - Reviewed by Rosanne Rabinowitz - Added 10/5/04 'The London Silence' by Stephen Moran - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 20/3/05 'The Last Flight of the Flamingo' by Mia Couto - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 15/8/04 'Ella Minnow Pea' by Mark Dunn - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 3/8/04 'The Nautical Chart' by Arturo Perez-Reverte - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 19/7/04 'Fisher of Devils' by Steve Redwood - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 31/5/04 'Drinking Coffee Elsewhere' by ZZ Packer - Reviewed by Neil Ayres - Added 7/4/04 'Visits from the Drowned Girl' by Steven Sherrill - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 20/3/05 'Come Closer' by Sara Gran - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 20/3/05 'Remembered America' - The Poems of Dick McBride - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 6/8/04 'American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 24/7/04 'Kiss Me Softly, Amy Turtle' by Paul McDonald - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 5/7/04 'Nicolo's Gifts' by Neil Ayres - Reviewed by Dan McNeil - Added 6/4/04 �In This Block There Lives a Slag� by Bill Broady - Reviewed by Paul Houghton �I Was a Murder Junkie: The Last Days of GG Allin� by Evan Cohen - Reviewed by Graham Rae �Weasels in a Box� by John Pierson - Reviewed by Graham Rae �Even a Daughter is Better Than Nothing� by Mykel Board - Reviewed by Graham Rae �I A Me-Ist� by Mykel Board - Reviewed by Graham Rae �Silent Bob Speaks: The Collected Writings of Kevin Smith� by Kevin Smith - Reviewed by Graham Rae �Haunted� by Chuck Palahniuk - Reviewed by Graham Rae �Irvine Welsh� by Aaron Kelly - Reviewed by Graham Rae �J.G. Ballard� by Andrzej Gasiorek - Reviewed by Graham Rae �Sheepshagger� by Niall Griffiths - Reviewed by Graham Rae �Tilt� by Iain Bahlaj - Reviewed by Matthew Firth 'Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco' by Daryl Easlea - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 20/3/05 'Perfume' by Patrick Suskind - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 31/12/04 'Try' by Dennis Cooper - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 22/9/04 'Night Visits' by Ron Butlin - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 16/9/04 'The Sensational Alex Harvey' by John Neil Munro - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 24/8/04 'You're an Animal, Viskovitz' by Alessandro Boffa - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 7/6/04 'The One' by Paul Reed - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj 'Doctor Mooze' by Panton di Villa - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 25/5/04 'The Week You Weren't Here' by Charles Blackstone - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 19/5/04 'Brass' by Helen Walsh - Reviewed by Iain Bahlaj - Added 12/4/04 'Sheepshagger' by Niall Griffiths - Reviewed by Graham Rae 'Tilt' by Iain Bahlaj - Reviewed by Matthew Firth 'Slouching Towards Nirvana' by Charles Bukowski - Reviewed by Matthew Firth 'In This Block There Lives a Slag' by Bill Broady - Reviewed by Paul Houghton WRITING EVENT REVIEWS
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FILMSFilm Reviews 'No Country for Old Men' - Joel & Ethan Coen here 'This is England' - dir: Shane Meadows - here 'Lifeboad' - dir: Alfred Hitchcock here Born Into This - dir: John Dullaghan - # Pan's Labyrinth - dir: Guillermo del Toro - # This Film is Not Yet Rated - dir: Kirby Dick - # 300 - dir: Zack Snyder - # Where the Green Ants Dream - dir: Werner Herzog - # 'Apocalypto' - dir. Mel Gibson - here 'Clerks II' - dir. Kevin Smith - here '3 Women' - dir. Robert Altman - here 'Factotum' - dir. Bent Hamer - here 'Opening Night' - dir. John Cassavettes - here The Last King of Scotland - dir: Kevin MacDonald Saraband - dir: Ingmar Bergman Stuart Blackwood's review of �A History of Violence� - here Stuart Blackwood's review of 'The Nomi Song' - here Dan Schneider's review of 'Silver City' - here Dan Schneider's review of 'Mr and Mrs Bridge' - here Dan Schneider's review of 'Casa de Los Babys' - here Dan Schneider's review of 'The Aviator' - here Shirley Whiteside's review of �Festival' - here Shirley Whiteside's review of �On A Clear Day' - here Sean Walsh's review of �The Matador' - here Sean Walsh's review of �The Brothers Grimm' - here Sean Walsh's review of �Dark Water' - here Sean Walsh's review of �Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' - here Sean Walsh's review of 'Mean Creek' - here Sean Walsh's review of 'Million Dollar Baby' - here Brian Reid's review of 'White Noise' - here Graham Rae�s's review of 'William S. Burroughs: Commissioner for Sewers' - here Graham Rae�s's review of 'V for Vendetta' - here Graham Rae�s's review of 'Me and You and Everyone We Know' - here Iain Bahlaj's review of 'Team America: World Police' - here Iain Bahlaj's review of 'A Room for Romeo Brass' - here Julian Allen's review of 'Ae Fond Kiss' - here Alan Ram's review of 'My Summer of Love' - here Grady Harp's review of 'The Barbarian Invasions' - here Grady Harp's review of 'Dogville' - here Shahbano Bilgrami's review of 'American Splendor' - here Sally Quilford's review of 'Equilibrium' - here Laura Hird's review of '9 Songs' - here Laura Hird's review of 'Dirty Pretty Things' - here Laura Hird's review of 'Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut' - here Laura Hird's review of 'The Last Great Wilderness' - here Laura Hird's review of 'Adaptation' - here Laura Hird's review of '25th Hour' - here Laura Hird's review of 'Animal Factory' - here Laura Hird's review of 'Secretary' - here Laura Hird's review of 'Auto Focus' - here Laura Hird's review of 'Open Hearts - Elsker dig for evigt' - here Laura Hird's review of 'The Mother' - here Marc Goldin's review of �Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada� - here Marc Goldin's review of �Capote� - here Marc Goldin's review of �Brokeback Mountain� - here Marc Goldin's review of 'Broken Flowers' - here Marc Goldin's review of 'Sin City' - here Marc Goldin's review of 'Beyond the Sea' - here Marc Goldin's review of 'Born Into Brothels' - here Marc Goldin's review of 'Undertow' - here Marc Goldin's review of 'The Motorcycle Diaries' - here Marc Goldin's review of 'Maria, Full of Grace' - here Marc Goldin's review of 'Coffee and Cigarettes' - here Marc Goldin's review of 'Young Adam' - here Tim West's review of 'The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy' - here Tim West's review of 'Sideways' - here Tim West's review of 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' - here Tim West's review of 'House of Flying Daggers' - here Tim West's review of 'The Incredibles' - here Tim Foster's review of 'Finding Neverland' - here Tim Foster's reveiw of 'Layer Cake' - here Tim Foster's review of 'Shattered Glass' - here Tim Foster's review of 'Lost in Translation' - here Tim Foster's review of 'Zatoichi' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Downfall' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Old Boy' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'The Dreamers' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Read My Lips' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Ten' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'A Tale of Two Sisters' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Wisconsin Death Trip' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Frida' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'The Swimmer' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Kill Bill Volume 1' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Kill Bill Volume 2' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Sex and Lucia' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Intacto' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'Better Than Chocolate' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'The Devil's Backbone' - here Kara Kellar Bell's review of 'The Terrorist' - here Daniel Pearson�s review of �Whale Rider� - here Daniel Pearson�s review of �Monster� - here Daniel Pearson�s review of �Throne of Blood� - here A selection of film reviews written by Laura Hird - here
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