David Lambert
I flew to Tobago mid-January 2026. It was 27 years (!) since I wrote the opening lines of The House in Bacolet, and 16 since I’d been back to the island of my birth. Far too long. It was to be a joyous homecoming, not least as I’d arranged the novel’s Tobago launch in the big new Bacolet Beach Club Hotel right there on the beach.
Often, anthologies in today’s modernity seek to embody a cohesive compilation of literary works that present a unified thematic focus. However, such collections are comparatively uncommon to accentuate a richly expansive ensemble of voices articulated with precision. Upon exploring Sanctuary, I was distinctly captivated to the anthology due to this breadth of narrative, offering both diversity and an array of experience.
By Rory Chisholm (2025)
We were really pleased to have a group of Leeds Beckett undergraduate students on placement with us as part of their Black British Lit module.
Over at The Bookseller, Aaron Kent of Broken Sleep Books makes the argument for why people should continue to set up indie presses:
by Lanhao Zheng
Several of Malika Booker's poems have been published in China's Zhejiang Poets magazine (Issue 1, 2025). Translator Lanhao Zheng talks about his work bringing the poems to a Chinese audience.
by Stewart Brown
Mervyn Morris, Anne Walmsley, James Berry, Stewart Brown (London, c. mid-1990s)
