“Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone takes us through the transformation of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe in the deeply unreliable company of Zamani, whose drive to re-invent his own history mirrors the strategic amnesia and myth-making of those who lost power and those who currently hold it. A funny, vivid, deeply serious novel which belies its blithely amoral narrative voice.”
“Nick Drnaso’s subdued yet searing graphic novel depicts the collision between fake news and real tragedy in our contemporary media climate. Drnaso’s understated art style underscores the collateral damage from the trauma of a missing loved one, while the complex layering of the comics panels conveys the uneven tempos of grief and the creeping nature of doubt and paranoia. Sabrina questions the divisions between authoritative and informal processes of knowledge production and manipulation from the level of internet forums to the apparatuses of national security.”
Milkman won the Man Booker Prize in 2018 the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2019. Anna Burns, born in Belfast, is the author of two other novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella, Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Milkman is a remarkable book — recording a specific time and a specific conflict with brilliant precision but universal in its account of how political allegiances crush and deform our instinctive human loyalties. Its tone of voice — wry and funny, furious and compassionate — is a marvel.”
Tom Sutcliffe
“A brilliantly evocative and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel presents life and the longing to make art on the fictional Burn Council Estate, in post-industrial Middlesborough. Glenn James Brown’s fierce, compassionate, multi-voiced story follows its characters across generations as the UK’s crisis in social housing hits the 1990s and becomes acute. Domestic details are documented with moving accuracy as he weaves his story together through oral history projects, found letters, celebrated paintings and local myths. Ironopolis celebrates a community and mourns its demise; it damns the politics of individualism and property greed to write a great slice of disappearing working class life into our national canon.”
“Red Clocks carves out a space of its own in the tradition of
feminist near-future dystopias. Here¹s a North America not gaudily
reinvented but just slightly tweaked from our own, and the more disturbing
for it. Roe vs Wade has been overturned; abortion criminalised; the
two-parent family now not so much normal as compulsory. In several voices,
with huge narrative pace and literary artfulness, Leni Zumas evokes the
effect on that of the everyday lives of the several different women whose
intersecting stories it describes.”
Submitted material
“The Wolves of Instagram”: Journalistic writing
“The Wolves of Instagram”: Audio content
Submitted material
“Men Only: Inside the charity fundraiser where hostesses are put on show”
“Presidents Club trustees criticised by UK charity regulator”
Submitted material
“What’s The Hidden Link Between Missing Children and the UK Drug Trade?”
“How Drug Dealing Gangs Are Taking Over the Countryside”
“Why London’s Teenagers Are Killing Each Other”
Max interviewed on Victoria Derbyshire about London Killings (BBC)
Docudrama following the story of Britain’s deadliest illegal gun, charting every shooting of Gun No 6 and exposing the realities of modern gun crime.
Submitted material
“These Glasgow Women Are Fighting Back After Decades Of Discrimination”
“Thousands of low paid women are striking. Where’s the solidarity?”
“Why women in Glasgow are striking over equal pay”
Social media content: “Highlights from Glasgow Women’s Strike days 24th/25th October 2018”
Submitted material
” ‘I could be taken from my home’: why disabled people once again fear being ‘warehoused'”
“The disability system is blocking people like Jaki from their benefits – literally”
“A year of dispatches from the frayed edges of Britain’s safety net”
Video content: “Blocked from benefits … literally”
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“Exposed: Hundreds Of Homeless Slaves Recruited on British Streets”
“MPs Call For Change After BuzzFeed Reveals Hidden Homeless Slaves”
“Victims Of Trafficking Were Refused Free Legal Advice Because The Government Got The Law Wrong”
Video content: “Secret film reveals how rough sleepers are rounded up for labour exploitation on British streets”
“This year’s winner – Carole Cadwalladr – deserves high praise for the quality of her research and for her determination to shed fierce light on a story which seems by no means over yet. Orwell would have loved it.” – David Bell
‘The Good Daughter‘, The New Statesman, 18/05/2017
‘Why do so many teenage girls want to be boys?‘ The Times, 11/11/2017
‘The battle over gender turns bloody‘, The Times, 16/09/2017