Month: May 2020

  • Keir Starmer: the new face of literary erotica?

    The chisel-jawed human rights lawyer and leader of the UK Labour Party may just be about to inspire an entire wave of new erotic fiction…

  • Little Donkey

    She arrived in Westminster for work experience with Boris Johnson, but she could never have imagined where she’d end up with Keir Starmer…

  • Lockdown Lit: video anthology expands

    Nothing in the Rulebook’s ‘Lockdown Lit’ project continues to grow, as award winning writers and creative entrepreneurs join ‘Rulebook Readings’ initiative

  • Creatives in Profile: an interview with Ellen Alpsten

    We may be in the middle of a global crisis, but there’s nothing in the rulebook to say you can’t continue your interview series during a worldwide pandemic. Ellen Alpsten was born and raised in the Kenyan highlands, before attending L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Whilst studying for her Msc in PPE she won the…

  • Book review: ‘The Salt Madonna’, by Catherine Noske

    Catherine Noske’s debut novel, The Salt Madonna (Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia), blends dreams with nightmares in an often startling work that in many ways makes for perfect lockdown and quarantine reading.

  • You Asked For It

    The email comes with an attachment that might, probably will, ruin her life forever.  You. Asked. For. It. She repeats each word carefully, her face bright in the pale blue glow of her laptop screen. She’s sure she knows what the attachment is but she’d rather die than open it.  The email has no subject.…