Memoir
My Ah Mah
Every family needs a villain. Someone to talk about, with lowered voices and raised eyebrows, when we meet at wedding dinners and baby full-moon parties.
Yin F Lim
Travel writing
Field Trip to the End of the World
‘I’m sat passenger-side as Robert Macfarlane drives. We make our way to Orford Ness, a shingle spit fringing the Suffolk coastline, for our final seminar.’
Leonard Yip
Essays
Are You Okay? (A Writing Event)
This highly experimental piece of creative nonfiction explores the relationship between author and character.
Mia Farlane
Travel writing
The Land Where Rhodes Fell
What can you learn about Cecil Rhodes from his grave? Jean Fleming travels to Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe, to find out.
Jean Fleming
Travel writing
Traces of Levinas
‘A Lithuanian Jew, writing in French; a philosopher overshadowed by his peers; Emmanuel Levinas could only be understood by visiting his hometown, where no one I asked seemed to know his name.’
Adam Husain
Essays
One Last Rebellion in SoHo
‘New York has always been consumed by surfaces, built for consumption. Missing one of its stores feels morally dubious, like missing a glamorous friend to whom you were never very close.’
Sara Krolewski
Essays
Botanic Gardens
‘As a child growing up in Singapore, you’re constantly told that people are all we have – that human labour and effort were all we could use to drag ourselves out of poverty into the first world. We bloomed where others would not.’
Wei Kai Ng
Memoir
We All Know Mr Jones
Mr Jones lived down the terraced houses at the end of our street. You’d never have known. There wasn’t anything obvious about him. Often he’d be out in his front garden, mowing, or pruning, or painting a window frame. He’d call out Good Afternoon and…
Alice Jolly
Travel writing
Alim Has a Problem
‘Xinjiang is a Chinese invention. The name means “new territory”. It wipes clean the region’s history of kingdoms and tribal loyalties. Like New Zealand. New Mexico. New South Wales.’
Jacob Rollinson
Essays
Laughing at Nazis
Looking at the controversial film Jojo Rabbit, Katie Scott-Marshall explores whether ridicule is an appropriate stance to adopt against totalitarianism.
Katie Scott-Marshall
Memoir
The Red Rag
‘Come,’ issued a muffled voice. I opened the door. Cigar smoke. It was a wood-panelled office. An old man was seated behind a huge table supporting a sea of paper.
‘I’m Chris,’ I said.
He leaned back in his chair. ‘And I’m The Editor.’
Chris Walsh
Memoir
The Fracture
‘I am eight years old and waiting outside a betting shop for my father. When he eventually steps out onto the street, he is a whirlwind of sweat and smoke. I know immediately that he’s lost all our money, the money that my mother has sent me to stop him gambling.’
Jaki McCarrick
Essays
The True Cross Is a Forest
Beginning in the woods of Wimbledon Common, Mathis Clément embarks on an associative journey of ideas, connecting religious relics to rituals of remembrance; our ecosystems of plastic to Rachel Whiteread’s art.
Mathis Clement
Memoir
Roots
In this blend of memoir and nature writing, Rachel Sloan turns to tree-planting when Brexit threatens to uproot her life in Britain.
Rachel Sloan
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