When Reading Really Rocked, volume 2: The Punk Explosion and BeyondIn his inimitable and entertaining style, Adrian Moulton tells the story of Readings local music scene in the aftermath of the infamous Bill Grundy interview with the Sex Pistols which led to the explosion of punk and its DIY attitude. In the late 1970s and early 80s, hundreds of local bands were formed, new venues opened (and closed), record labels and recording studios sprang up, a network of behind the scenes technicians and promoters emerged,

arts funding and the anti-war movement

From Sarajevo with Sorrow

bringing a vast range of contemporary and historical perspectives into play in poems private and public about the two world wars and the revolutions in Russia and the Empire

sharp-edged

Owen Sheers reimagines his National Theatre of Wales dramatisation of the three-day Passion

The poems of this collection impress upon us that magic and depth can be found in the minutiae of the everyday

Puerto Rico

this intimate

Timothy Adès on Colin Sydenham's Horace

Thomas Høegh

as the editorial reveals

James's writings on cricket