If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? Thanks for visiting! When Peter Hansome dies in a car accident, a number of carefully concealedor perhaps simply wilfully ignoredtruths bubble to the surface. Bridget Hansome, Peters widow, is contacted shortly after by Frances Slater, Peters...

For someone whose background involves copious amounts of Jungian psychoanalysis, its no surprise that Salley Vickers in her work so frequently touches on notions of the development of self, and on individual narrative journeys in order to reach a greater sense of consciousness and agency. While Vickers has in some of her work, such as the tremendously...

I always find the hermeneutic nature of literature, both at the wider level of the literary canon, and at the microlevel of my own reading history, fascinating. All art and literature is informed by that which comes before it and, likewise, my own reading is informed in the same way. Its curious, because at some subconscious level I seem to select my...

Caravaggio's famously evocative painting the Supper at Emmaus depicts a scene from the gospel of St Luke in which a deceptively unprepossessing man who has walked anonymously with two disciples reveals himself as Jesus. The scene echoes Jesus's earlier words that he will always appear when others gather in his name, and this theme of rebirth, although...

She stood, absorbing the subtle shades and distinctive smells of the sea. What a peculiar thing she had done. . . I first came across Salley Vickers quite by chance when I was second-hand book shopping one day. Her book Mr Golightlys Holiday had been mis-shelved in the fantasy and science fiction section, and its splendid cover stood out amongst all...