What’s Rob reading in January?

With my return to the business of full-time reading and reviewing beginning again tomorrow, I thought I’d open proceedings by giving you all a quick rundown on the literary delights that I’ve set up for myself to read during this first month of … [Read more...]

Afterthoughts: The inaugural quartet from Madras Press

In a nutshell: If these four titles offer a good indication of the literary quality that we can expect from Madras Press in the coming months/years, then ahead lies fun, fresh and exciting reading times. Buy all four of these titles if you can, but … [Read more...]

Daily Bookshot: Madras Quartet

Madras Quartet, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. So you may remember at the start of last month I spoke about 'new publisher on the block' Madras Press, and their quest to create a publishing platform for the novella story-form; a … [Read more...]

New non-profit publisher to champion novellas

Fans of novellas and longer short stories may be interested to know that Madras Press, a new non-profit publisher, will be launching next month (December). Madras Press have a clear aim of publishing stories which are too long for magazines but … [Read more...]