nothing in the rulebook
A collective of creatives bound by a single motto: There's nothing in the rulebook that says a giraffe can't play football!
Category: Craft & Culture
Writers and artists share their advice for fellow creatives through articles, writing tips and artistic guides, as well as interviews. Alongside this, we share reviews and cultural opinion pieces.
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Beautiful and enchanting, Max Newsom’s latest film offers a subtle meditation on youthful innocence and (in)experience.
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Indie comic team hope to bring new action adventure comic, featuring dinosaurs and time travel, to life.
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A memoir, Wales, and the presence of absence. From conception to finish, it’s taken Pamela Petro eight years to write The Long Field. But it’s a memoir, so it demanded a lifetime of research. Petro writes about events from her own history, her own close relationships, and sews wider observations – about Wales and the world –…
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“We must not fall in love with another Lover, we must not leave the Golden Palace, we must not get pregnant, we must not reveal any classified information we overhear in the politicians’ rooms.” These are the rules that Iris, a Lover in the sinister reality series The President Show, has to obey or risk expulsion… and…
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‘So: Walter König is dead.’ This is how Naomi Wood’s The Hiding Game begins, and how it continues; a cool account of life, art and death, narrated from a distance by Paul Beckermann. The novel flicks between the older Beckermann of ‘now’, in England, painting in his studio, and the Paul Beckermann of the 1920s – young,…
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Spiller’s latest comedy space-opera thrill-packed adventure is available for just £1.50
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Costanza Casati is a writer and screenwriter. She was born in the US, but grew up in Milan, in Italy. She studied at universities in London and Oxford before graduating from the prestigious Warwick Writing MA with a distinction. Her short stories Rotten Roots, Horrible Feet, and You Asked For It, have all been published…
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Samantha Shannon’s The Mask Falling is the fourth book in her The Bone Season series. Shannon finished the first book ten years ago, when she was a nineteen-year-old studying at Oxford. Now an internationally bestselling author, with the rights to adapt sold to Andy Serkis’ production company, Shannon’s reached the mid-point of the saga. ‘This is the point at…
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It’s been a busy decade for Samantha Shannon. A writer of dystopian and fantasy fiction, Shannon signed a six-figure book deal with Bloomsbury back in 2012, when she was just twenty years old and still studying at Oxford. Her debut, The Bone Season, the first in The Bone Season series, went on to become an…
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Scientists, artists, politicians and explorers have explained, sometimes beautifully, why books are essential. They are, for instance, “fundamental to all human achievement and progress”, according to Astronaut Neil Armstrong. But is logical reasoning like this the true reason we are drawn to books, why we worship them? Is there more to it? Kafka – that…
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