Skagboys is the latest offering from Irvine Welsh, who burst onto the literary scene with the notorious Trainspotting (1993). Skagboys revisits the characters of Trainspotting, trailing them on a manic journey into the Edinburgh’s drug scene. Welsh describes it as a “why” book, investigating the characters, relationships and the broader society that the characters inhabit….
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Does any women have complete power over her choices? The agency and reproductive rights of women come into question in Maureen McCarthy’s YA novel The Convent. McCarthy writes in her “Author’s Note”: ‘History is so often told from the male point of view, with the female experience either ignored or trivialised.’ In The Convent, she…
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Ida Jessen is a popular and award-winning Danish author whose 2009 work, The Children, has recently been published in English. Beginning in 1992, The Children opens with recently divorced Solvej renting a house in isolated Hvium so she can be with her daughter, Christiane. While Solvej is eager to find a place to belong, her…
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It’s less than two weeks until our One Night Stand with Voiceworks! This week we interviewed Editor Kat Muscat about young writers, indie publishing and what Voiceworks is looking for. Voiceworks in two words? Here 2 Stay (see what I did there?). Why should we read Voiceworks – what makes it so awesome? All of the…
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I can already hear most of you groaning: ‘Oh great, another supernatural romance…’ Although it is another supernatural romance for the young adult market, Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi actually has a great concept of a dark and dystopian world, in a similar vein as Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden and recent…
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Calling all writers! lip magazine, your resident indie mag for young women invites YOU to submit to their first ever, highly exciting fiction anthology, ‘Harvest’! And to make it even more fun, we’ve themed it with the appropriately ambiguous topic of ‘One’. Whether it’s a poem to your one true love, an attempt at capturing…
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boycotting air by Emma Coaldrake its 3am and i am not quite certain whether or not i’m on the correct side of the mirror. i do not remember if i am right or left handed. if the moonlight trickling in through my bedroom window is casting peculiar shadows on the wall or if it’s a…
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