3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (109+ words) Hazell Ward’s debut The Game Is Murder is an experimental, metafictional crime novel, inspired by one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in British history: the 1974 disappearance of Lord Lucan. If you thought every plot consideration had been covered within the…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (239+ words) Cardiff-based poet and performer Rachel Helena Walsh is once again bringing Buzz some typewritten excellence! (Read her review of 2025’s Sŵn Festival here and an interview with Spit Hood here.) Below is the results of her meetup with Ellis Acton-Dyer…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (198+ words) Based on a true story about the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from America, The Mare by Angharad Hampshire is a powerful historical portrayal – one which starts with a holiday. That’s the setting for Russell Ryan meeting, then…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (136+ words) A new book of annual traditions takes in everything from cheese rolling in Gloucestershire to warm pennies raining down from the sky in Devon. The old house they buy there once belonged to John Malachy, 1960s occult celebrity and Crowley fanatic....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (149+ words) Etna is a dog in an unnamed – fictional – country ripped apart by a four-year war. Working in the field of mine clearance, Etna decides to make an unaccompanied journey back home to the farm he was snatched from as a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (282+ words) Blunt and rich in description, Rachel Cusk unravels a gentle critique of fame, celebrity and the constructedness of reality in her latest novel, Life Of M. Cusk is distinct for her meticulousness in scene-setting – writing around the edges of a room…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (171+ words) Marie Darrieussecq’s How To Make A Woman is the kind of book that makes you want to underline every other sentence and immediately hand it to every woman you know. Following best friends Rose and Solange through sex, friendship, motherhood,…...