Writesideleft

12/06/2025

https://www.ft.com/content/eeefe435-adcf-44f1-b8eb-9676a5c6cfad

Ernst Gombrich’s book was an unlikely bestseller — 75 years on it speaks powerfully about the dangerous politicisation of culture

10/06/2025

International reading including WSL’s:
Upcoming Bridport, & a shout out for recently published Bordeaux author!

29/05/2025

https://on.ft.com/43Fzceh

From BookTok cafés to dating events, from writing workshops to cocktail bars, here are some of the capital’s hotspots for bibliophiles

26/04/2025

06/04/2025

A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’

01/04/2025

This is now being adapted for viewing. Timely?

Russia under Putin - in the shady corridors of the Kremlin.

01/04/2025

Yes we have qr codes (but not for your favourite claret yet!) - for the bookshop of your choice. You can also find it in Claret-Central (Bordeaux!) if you're there over Easter!

20/03/2025

Nice obit for a founding writer of WriteSideLeft

Other lives: Voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Shakespeare Company and Rada

13/03/2025

Just Published! A quirky novella by (& congratulations to) Rorie Smith. You can get it here, there, everywhere, and even in France where it was written!

Get it now:

22/02/2025

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/02/21/simon-mawer-glass-room-booker-obituary/

‘I don’t want to tell the truth. I want to manipulate things as I choose. I want to lie’

08/02/2025

WSL is happy to be overloaded with manuscripts. Please bear with us - we will read & reply when we have time!

06/01/2025

A Good Woman. The finest (voice coach - all you Oscar winners know who you are!) of her generation. The finest. Stand up to cancer.