Cloud Atlas – a transmedial movie
Cloud Atlas, the film of the unfilmable novel, has had a belated UK release. With an epic cast including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent and High Grant, it’s ambitious...
Time out of Joint Pt. 6: Conclusion and Mediography
A version of this essay was originally submitted in partial fulfilment of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester in 2009. Please note that if you quote or cite...
Time out of Joint Pt. 5: Hyperreality and Hypertextuality in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
A version of this essay was originally submitted in partial fulfilment of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester in 2009. Please note that if you quote or cite...
Time out of Joint Pt. 4: Intertextuality and Simulation in A.L. Kennedy’s Day
A version of this essay was originally submitted in partial fulfilment of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester in 2009. Please note that if you quote or cite...
Time out of Joint Pt. 3: Schizophrenia and Fragmentation in A.L. Kennedy’s Day
A version of this essay was originally submitted in partial fulfilment of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester in 2009. Please note that if you quote or cite...
Time out of Joint Pt. 2: Period and Pastiche in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
A version of this essay was originally submitted in partial fulfilment of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester in 2009. Please note that if you quote or cite...
Time out of Joint Pt 1: The End of History. Again
A version of this essay was originally submitted in partial fulfilment of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester in 2009. Please note that if you quote or cite...
The Most Terrific Liar: Unreliable Narration in The Catcher in the Rye
A version of this essay was originally submitted in partial fulfillment of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester in 2009. Please note that if you quote...
The Booker Re-Run
In 1971 the Booker switched from being a retrospective of the previous year’s pile of letters to the cutting edge taking of the literary pulse it aspires to be. So,...
Breaking into Writing
How do you break into the literary world? In an interview with Wired, Paolo Bacigalupi, tells us it’s 85% graft, 5% inspiration, and 10% reading lots of fantasy and SF magazines… sort...