Irgendwie kein Wunder, dass es eine Übersetzerin ist, die sich ab um sofort die neue Rubrik indielit:deutsch kümmern wird, denn sie wandert sowieso den ganzen Tag virtuell zwischen Englisch und Deutsch hin und wieder zurück. Passt also. Claudia Rapp kommt aus dem...
Welcome to our first ever SPEED REVIEW! It could be the world's first ever speed review for all I know. It could be the beginning of a terrible new trend, where reviewers only bother to read a bit of a book before slamming or praising it. When literature has truly...
See what all the fuss is about - The Berlin Diaries, the memoir of Tacheles and East Berlin in 1991, is the autobiographical novel by Noel Maurice of indieberlin about his early years in Berlin: sex, squats and street music. Noel is giving away his novel this weekend...
Joanna Penn is a major force on the international self-publishing scene. Starting off as a professional speaker and non-fiction author she quickly moved into writing fiction and continued to speak and write advice books for self-published authors. Referred to as "the...
The memoir of a 1970s childhood, the dust jacket of which markets the book as “a salute to every curly-top, scabby-knee'd, mixed-up, half-crazy kid in the playground with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me-downs”. Therefore, I who am writing this was...
Even if you don't know much about Jonathan Lyon, one thing you'll soon know is that he wears big furs and is stylish in a very artistic kind of way. I first met him in Shakespeare and Sons. He read a piece that was as polished as it was graphic and twisted. A short...
IB: Where do you write? Wherever an idea comes from me, mostly on my phone due to convenience, but I prefer pen and paper. I've pulled over on the side of the highway to wrestle down inspiration. It comes and goes as it pleases, wherever I am. IB: Where's the weirdest...
I suppose we should have put on our review guidelines that we weren't necessarily very into reading fantasy novels. To be honest I just didn't think about it at the time. If I had I would probably have thought, well, a fantasy novel every now and then might be ok...
1. Medea Englunder The universe yawned. And the world turned. A heathen in the deepest swell of heathenism, the greatest ocean swirl of wickedness, a sinner. Or rather a shadow of sinner, a shade of a sin, because nothing is ever complete. Alive by arms and legs and...
Finally it's the night of the recording. We all meet up at Tacheles and then head off with Rainer down the road. It's ten minutes’ walk away and we amble along chatting, carrying our instruments, Rainer, Clemens, Mike, Marlon and myself. We get to a crumbling old...
We caught up recently with Sarah MaGuire...ex-Berliner resident, ex-songwriter, now poet in England, she helps run poetry thing thisisuptight.com. She's brilliant and funny, you should read her, but first read this. IB: Where do you write? Usually at home or in cafe’s...
The pug among the struts, in the pale blue strait-jacket The Platinum Raven steps off the window sill, crosses the attic room and looks again at the air-conditioning control, which is a dial running from 1 to 10. After a moment’s thought she turns it from 1 to 2. She...
