Sauntering on to the stage like someone who has never felt nervous in his life, Will Self began his talk at the Ilkley Literature Festival with hotels. “Hotels are all part of a mass deception – […]
Books | Cheat’s Guide to The Picture of Dorian Gray
An Oscar Wilde classic, which the 2009 film adaption simply does not do justice to. A must read full of wit, murder and mystery. Who? Dorian Gray – an impressionable young man, whose main asset […]
Books | There’s more to Yorkshire’s Literature than the Brontës
When asked about Yorkshire literature, Wuthering Heights will most likely be the first book that comes to mind. However, the wild and rugged Yorkshire moors have inspired many authors to put pen to paper, and […]
Books | Why we Need Banned Books Week
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” So said Heinrich Heine, the 18thcentury German writer famous for his radical politics. Heine’s works were publicly burned by the German Student Union […]
Books | The Changing Face of Comic Books
The comic book industry is a strange one. It’s dominated almost entirely by two companies -Marvel and DC – and as such, it’s perhaps the only entertainment industry that has managed to exclude, overlook or […]
Books | Seconds – Life after Scott Pilgrim
Very few independent comic writers ever see the kind of crossover success that Bryan Lee O’Malley found with Scott Pilgrim. Six volumes, one video game and a Hollywood film later, O’Malley’s twenty-something slacker is one […]
Books | Top 5 Books to look out for this autumn
We may all be busy enjoying the surprisingly pleasant weather this summer, but it’s only a matter of time before the nights start drawing in. Then, our country will revert back to its normal chilly […]
Books | Top 5 World War One Novels
A hundred years on from the start of World War One, the devastating battle that defined a century has been commemorated in fiction in numerous ways. To mark the centenary, LSi takes a look at […]
Books | The GCSE books gone with Gove
As of next year, ‘foreign’ texts will no longer be studied at GCSE level as part of a call by the now ex-Education Secretary, Michael Gove, for more works by British authors to be studied […]
Books | Top 5 Exotic Reads
If you’re one of those faced with a summer of erratic British weather, an endless stream of friends’ holiday snaps on your Facebook newsfeed and only a very slight chance of getting a tan, why […]
Books | One Night in Winter – A gripping and elaborate tale of Soviet Russia
Simon Sebag Montefiore is most renowned for his historical works on Stalin and Soviet Russia, but he has made a seamless transition in to the world of fiction with his new novel, One Night in […]
Interview | Dawn O'Porter – 'TV networks don't think women are as good as men.'
You’d be mistaken for thinking that Dawn O’Porter is some kind of superhero. Journalist, reporter, performer, documentary maker and novelist are but a few of the titles she’s achieved in under a decade. Yet she […]