by Christine | Jul 27, 2015 | Author news, Reviews
Parthian proudly celebrates their ‘carnival of new voices in independent publishing’, and the jacket from Structo eleven contributor Susmita Bhattacharya’s debut novel promises no less; it dances with verdant greens, bold reds, even a faintly sexual...
by Christine | Jun 23, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
The Window My dad’s a window cleaner, so I’m looking forward to telling him about a story in which the hero is someone from his own world. In Alex Christofi’s novel Glass we’re offered a window into the life and death of one Gunther Glass, who, following the loss of...
by Christine | Jun 9, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
If you watch any American television, you may well have noticed that it features a lot of bald or balding men: Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), Louie (Louie), Pete Campbell (Mad Men), Homer Simpson (The Simpsons), Larry David, (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Walter White...
by Christine | May 28, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
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...
by Spenser | Sep 13, 2014 | Reviews
Day jobs are often one of the biggest sources that writers draw from, especially early in their career. This influence is seen in some of the most popular poetry of the 20th century, from T.S. Eliot (banker) to William Carlos Williams (doctor). Sometimes the influence...
by Euan | Aug 8, 2014 | Front page, Reviews
Brick Mother is the debut novel by Leeds-based writer and (full disclosure) Structo contributor S.J. Bradley. It follows the lives of an art therapist, Neriste, and a nursing assistant, Donna, working at a secure psychiatric facility. Both women seem intrigued by the...
