Touching, funny, pensive, self-aware, honest. Michel Faber’s discussion of his latest novel, The Book of Strange New Things was all of these. Following the story of Peter Leigh, a Christian missionary who leaves his loving wife Beatrice behind spread his faith to the alien world of Oasis, Faber’s novel is a fabulous study of love, Read More
This is an edited transcript of an interview with Michel Faber with headings inserted for ease of reading and navigation. The video of the complete interview can be accessed by clicking the above image. A review of The Book of Strange New Things is available HERE. Alex Henry’s review of Michel Faber’s reading at the 2014 Dundee Literary Read More
Popular culture clings. It aspires to immortality, presenting itself as an essential part of social existence. And we readily acknowledge it as such. This is precisely what is explored in Double Bill, an anthology of poems about popular culture as a thing that survives history and becomes ageless. But it is not just agelessness that Read More
“Suddenly he could think things through, he could put things together, where in the past years he’d been unable to… Tears dripped down his face in relief. Was he finally free? Was he really himself again?” Willy Vlautin’s The Free is a compelling novel of compassion and sacrifice. Its setting is that of post-war America Read More
This is an edited transcript; the video of the complete interview can be accessed by clicking the above image. A review of The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion is available HERE. Susan Mains: Welcome to our conversation today with Kei Miller who is visiting us here at Dundee as part of the Dundee Literature Read More
This is an edited transcript; the video of the complete interview can be accessed by clicking the above image. Alice Tarbuck’s review of A Wild Adventure and Concerning the Atlas of Scotland is available HERE. Alice Tarbuck: Good morning. On behalf of the Dundee University Review of the Arts and the Dundee Literary Festival, welcome to Read More
Kendel Hippolyte’s collection, night vision, wanders through themes of nature, place, history and critiques of human conditions and also of capitalism. He writes in a dramatic style, betraying his background in theatre; his poems creates a vastness and interconnectedness, even when they are so clearly afixed to a certain place and time, and by a Read More
Adam Foulds’ third novel, In the Wolf’s Mouth, is a fairly conventional war story that is elevated by understated writing but which is nevertheless insightful enough to provide some traction to a story and set of characters which might at times seem overly familiar. Essentially a war novel which follows the Allies’ advance through North Read More
The Touch of Time, Stewart Conn’s recently published collection, serves as a retrospective of a lifetime spent writing, concluding with a section of new poems. Ayrshire-born Conn is one of Scotland’s quiet poets who has created a steady body of work over the last 40 years, making him one of the most established and appreciated Read More
Meeting Buddha in Dumbarton is an enchanting new work from writer and artist Nikki Magennis. At once deeply personal and thematically universal, its lovely (author-designed) cover encases a varied collection of poems which deal with some grand concepts while still managing to remain grounded and sharply focused on people. Feminism and history are core topics, Read More