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Oct 3, 2024 | 
uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Graeme Macrae Burnet |Sarah Moss |Fiona Mozley
(Author) (Author) (Author) (Author) (Author) (Author) (Author) (Author) & 6 more FORMAT Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world 'This varied collection scratches the soil of the country to dig up some of the fairy tales and fantasies that have helped form the English identity.' Financial Times Inspired by sites in the care of English Heritage, from the mythical Tintagel to mysterious Stonehenge, eight well-known contemporary authors have turned afresh...
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Joe Bishop |Jordan Michelman |Eva Wiseman |Fiona Mozley
In the gutter, looking up at the stars. I think we can all agree that the Michelin Guide isn’t particularly cool. Especially in our fair London, where, depending on your vibe and your set, ‘cool’ can be small plates at a Peckham brasserie named after a DJ, laksa obscura in a Zone 6 banlieue or some TikTok cheese-pull carbslop nightmare served out of a carnival truck in Camden Lock. It’s all a bit unserious in the city these days. That’s why I’m drawn to Michelin’s profound self-seriousness.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Jordan Michelman |Eva Wiseman |Fiona Mozley
The Ace of shades. It was a barista who first told me about the ghost. ‘We think it’s wretchedly haunted,’ I recall her saying. This was back in 2014, inside the Bulldog Edition, the espresso bar inside the Ace Hotel, where I happened to be staying. The hotel’s spook status centered around the untimely death of its founder Alex Calderwood, who died on the third floor in the previous autumn, a few weeks after trading commenced.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Fiona Mozley |Miles Ellingham |Cormac Kehoe |Charlie Baker
Why do people drink their own piss? I’ve often wondered if childhood fears reveal something deep about our psyche; whether our adult choices are somehow wrapped up in them. When I was a child, I was fascinated and horrified by stories of people stranded in deserts. Someone would be driving along a long road and their engine would fail. They would be stuck, torn between leaving the vehicle to find help and following the advice to stay with it. My primary fear was the unquenchable thirst.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
benjaminmyerswriter.com | Fiona Mozley
The winner of the 2024 Finchale Award For Short Fiction is Abby Walker from Bishop Auckland, County Durham, for her short story ‘The Killing Thing.’ This year's prize was judged by Fiona Mozley and Rob Doyle. The £1000 prize is awarded for writers of all backgrounds and abilities who live or work in the North of England. It was set up and funded by Benjamin Myers alongside New Writing North, and is presented annually at the Northern Writers’ Awards. It is now in its third year.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Madeleine Brettingham |Robbie Armstrong |Harvey James |Fiona Mozley
A short story about a couple navigating life in their forties. When the nurse removes your bandages, she asks if you’re planning on doing anything with them, sorting them out, making them more presentable. She doesn’t say: you look like a burns victim, like you’ve been attacked by a bulldog, like you’ve been struck by lightning, reassembled, like a lunar crater, the surface of the moon. In truth you would have liked massive tits.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Robbie Armstrong |Harvey James |Fiona Mozley |Ed Cumming
Exploring a Scottish myth. It’s April 2007, and in a quiet corner of the internet, a video is uploaded to YouTube, a site still in its infancy. In its shaky, pixelated images we see a man with an oil-blackened face lying prone on the ground in blue workwear overalls. ‘Where’s the rat?’, the cameraman asks, and as if on cue, the man picks up a dead-looking rodent before placing it carefully between his teeth. This, we are told, is the legendary Catman of Greenock.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Harvey James |Fiona Mozley |Ed Cumming |Ian Martin
Living on the edge of glory. No one suspected anything malicious in the red spray paint outside our house. Not the first time it showed up, at least. The house was a Spanish-style villa on a residential street in West Hollywood and was split into two flats sharing a porch. My modelling agency’s section housed four to six male models, with two bunkbeds in one room and two single beds in another. I was used to slumming it with a strange set, but this group was particularly batty.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Fiona Mozley |Ed Cumming |Ian Martin |Rosie Hewitson
Speaking to the dead. It was 8pm in New York, October 30, 2022, although I was not there, not physically anyway. In the UK and Ireland, it was midnight – already Halloween. My partner was in bed, though not asleep. We’d had a gentle dispute over the evening’s activities, she being adamant the dead were not to be messed with. I was in the sitting room of our Edinburgh tenement flat, door shut, hunched over my computer, waiting for the Zoom call to begin.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Harvey James |Fiona Mozley |Ed Cumming |Ian Martin
What defines the amorphous idea
of ‘coolness’ in each age of life?
If you are cool too early in life,
can you recapture that golden era? What is the optimum age to be
considered the apex of cool? We reveal all this and more. There are only a few avenues to newborn coolness and they are of course largely dependent on your birth parents. Are they cool people themselves? Judge this based on whether or not they announced your entrance into the world with a gender reveal stunt.
