Kit Ward

My first blog, These Islands, was five years old last month. Though it’s not exactly my first blog —...

by Kit Ward

Listening to an episode of Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time radio programme recently, I learned that the first person...

by Kit Ward

In a burst of short story production last year, I wrote five tales in quick succession. At the back...

by Kit Ward

In January 897, the corpse of Pope Formosus was disinterred from the tomb it had occupied for nine months,...

by Kit Ward

I wrote a post about Arnold Bennett’s book, How To Become an Author, a few months ago, As I...

by Kit Ward

Blake Crouch’s 2016 novel Dark Matter is a page-turner, no doubt about it. It’s the first novel I’ve read...

by Kit Ward

I re-read Jorge Luis Borges’ short story ‘Emma Zunz’ last week. It’s a tale of revenge and I went...

by Kit Ward

It wasn't until I transferred the photos from my phone to my laptop that I realised I’d misread one...

by Kit Ward