The Masochist Jack Bruce

The Masochist Jack BruceWhy would people trouble themselves with the facts, when fiction is so much more enticing? Designed as a historical novel, The Masochist forges an intimate portrait of a young, tenacious woman who, in uncertain times at the end of the 19th century, chose an uncertain path the only path that could lead her to freedom. On Christmas Eve 1874, Leopold von Sacher Masoch, whom history would remember as the most famous masochist, left his home in Bruck an

Samuel Shimon: Short story Two Royalists on Quatorze Juillet

poetry from Peru

In three sections entitled ‘Clasp’

images of Thompson's paintings and extracts from his poetry

The World We Want is Us is the anthologized debut of Public Menace

on whose shoulders today’s female television writers stand

thanks to the variety of colours available and the inventive patterns that Victorian bricklayers loved to make

poetry is a constant struggle against distortion

as striking metaphors for our everyday dramas

an abandoned ice cream van tears a street apart

Nepal and Kazakhstan

as vital contraband