Review: The Good Son by Paul McVeigh

Should I be a loner? Or be in a gang. Paul McVeigh’s ambitious debut pits the half-term struggles of a pre-adolescent boy in the tempestuous run-up to his first day of ‘Big School’, against the explosive, sectarian world of Belfast’s Ardoyne during The Troubles. I...

BOS Artists’ Residency Programme

A few weeks ago, we received an email from William Howell, introducing his new writers’ and artists’ residency programme, BOS Arts. As you might imagine, we get a lot of emails like this; many of them scatter-shot and sent BCC—if we’re lucky—to every editor...

An interview with Paul McVeigh

We love Paul McVeigh. The man’s a fixture of the British short story world and, along with Word Factory co-conspirator Cathy Galvin, a long-time supporter of the magazine. And so we were delighted to learn that he had a novel coming out with one of our favourite...