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When Life Gives You Books
That evening, sitting amidst tower blocks of Victorian drainage history, Phineas realised Mrs Brown was right. Lemons were versatile. Books were heavy,…
We Need More Meaning
It is time for literature to move beyond the superficial noise of the contemporary moment and deliver the rich, transformative meaning that…
The Lazy Club
The afternoon sun hit the vinyl couch at precisely the angle required to make getting up feel like a crime against physics.…
One Last Weather Chant
Ninety-year-old Þorvaldur sat on his weathered wooden bench, watching the tide pull the grey foam away from the basalt cliffs. In his…
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The book remains one of the most influential works in modern philosophy. It challenges readers to step away from mindless conformity, take…
Two Rococo Couplets
Queen Marie Antoinette, who regularly sat for Vigée Le Brun, popularised the kind of simple, white muslin dress so beautifully painted in…
The Cigar That Fell in Love With a Pipe
What happens when two different objects fall in love? The Cigar That Fell in Love With a Pipe answers this unlikely question…
The Strange Little Hatchling
A devoted mother duck sits patiently on her nest day and night, keeping the precious eggs warm through the long weeks of…
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We Need More Meaning
It is time for literature to move beyond the superficial noise of the contemporary moment and deliver the rich, transformative meaning that readers so desperately need…
A Final Brushstroke
Pablo Picasso’s final year proved that for him, art was not merely a medium of expression, but the literal engine of his survival: a final, defiant assertion of life against death…
Beyond the Smile: My Sister, Lisa
She merely said, ‘The Master keeps asking me to think of secrets, Ginevra. He tells me to hold a thought I will never share with anyone.’ Back then, she found it odd, a…
How Human Is It to Always Be Wanting Something Else?
There is an impulse almost instinctive about wanting what we do not have. We can be surrounded by things we once hoped for and still find ourselves looking towards something beyond them: a…
In the Sky with Diamonds
Working for Diamond Airways sounded glamorous right up until my inaugural transatlantic flight from Heathrow to JFK. The luxury branding meant our dress code consisted of an unnecessarily stiff-collared midnight-blue uniform and a…
The Cerulean Temperament
The afternoon sky awoke in a fit of violet jealousy, bruising the horizon with rich, velvet shadows that spilled over the roofs of the quiet village. Down in the square, the cobblestones soaked…
An Inheritance of Ashes
The Moxley family was once the backbone of the small coastal town. Their legacy began with Adolphus Moxley, the only son of a destitute family of nine. Two years before the war began,…
The Deafening Sound of Reason
He clapped his pale hands over his ears, desperate to hold on to the last fragments of his mind and block out the sound. He pressed down until his knuckles turned white, but…
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When Life Gives You Books
That evening, sitting amidst tower blocks of Victorian drainage history, Phineas realised Mrs Brown was right. Lemons were versatile. Books were heavy, flammable and…
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The book remains one of the most influential works in modern philosophy. It challenges readers to step away from mindless conformity, take responsibility for…
A Final Brushstroke
Pablo Picasso’s final year proved that for him, art was not merely a medium of expression, but the literal engine of his survival: a…
We Need More Meaning
It is time for literature to move beyond the superficial noise of the contemporary moment and deliver the rich, transformative meaning that readers so…
Two Rococo Couplets
Queen Marie Antoinette, who regularly sat for Vigée Le Brun, popularised the kind of simple, white muslin dress so beautifully painted in this portrait…
The Lazy Club
The afternoon sun hit the vinyl couch at precisely the angle required to make getting up feel like a crime against physics. In the…
One Last Weather Chant
Ninety-year-old Þorvaldur sat on his weathered wooden bench, watching the tide pull the grey foam away from the basalt cliffs. In his lap lay…
The Haunt Hunters
The damp autumn air hung heavy over Sick-a-Moor Castle, a crumbling Victorian pile that smelled entirely of wet spaniel and damp wallpaper. Philomena adjusted…
Beyond the Smile: My Sister, Lisa
She merely said, ‘The Master keeps asking me to think of secrets, Ginevra. He tells me to hold a thought I will never share…
Keep the Grammar Sane, for Word’s Sake!
Scholars say that language is a living entity, constantly shifting to reflect the society that speaks it. Yet, there is a fine line between…
The Jungle Dominoes
It all started with a hiccup. Ppopo, an unusually pristine hippopotamus, was wallowing peacefully in the Upper Mud Bogs when an unexpected bubble of…
1111 Train
Disclaimer: No animals were mistreated during the making of this story…
Nonsensical Honourifics
The San Sebastián bar was thick with the scent of roasted coffee, frying txistorra and seventy years of unadulterated Basque bloody-mindedness. At the end…
Bitter Honey
Early in the morning of their wedding day, James and Catherine went for a walk, directly ignoring their solicitor. The advice had been to…
The Silent Shutter
The creatures spoke of him with quiet reverence. To the rabbits, he was the giant who understood the precise angle of twilight. To the…
Imaginary Homelands
When Pedro finally returned to Cádiz last summer, the reality struck him like a sudden frost. The house was still there, but the courtyard…
Beyond Eurocentric Letters
For a magazine based in the heart of Europe’s publishing ecosystem, looking beyond our traditional literary borders is no longer merely a curious novelty…
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