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Our Story of the Week is The Miner who would be a Gannet, a tender love story from the writer D A Adamson. D A Adamson started writing short stories at junior school where he excelled at English Language and English Literature. His life has evolved around the written word through a lifetime as an advertising copywriter. During his lif

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Our Story of the Week is a scary story from the writer John Lee Langton. John turned to writing later in life, first taking a creative writing evening course at a local college, and then following up a couple of years later with the prestigious Diploma in Creative writing from Kellogg College, the graduate college of The University of

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Our Story of the Week is The Amazing Chen, an entertaining story from the writer Jamie Guiney. Jamie is a graduate of the Faber & Faber Writing Academy. His short stories have been published internationally and he has twice been a judge for the short story competition The New Rose Prize. Two of his own stories A Quarter Yellow Sun

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It has been a little bit more than a month since we have released a number of Fairlight Books on a book crossing voyage. It has been a fantastic adventure so far and we are astounded at how far some of the books travelled. A number of books found their way to London and other UK cities. Other copies of Lou Gilmond's The Tale of Senyor Rod

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Our Story of the Week is Blue Rose, a magical realism story from the writer Greg Forrester. Greg started writing in secondary school, producing four chapters of a clear Lord of the Rings rip-off, that, ‘thankfully’, no longer exists. Since then, he’s continued to pursue his passion, earning creative writing degrees from the Unive

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Our Story of the Week is Dry County, a mystery story from the writer David Lewis. David Lewis grew up and went to university in Oklahoma before moving to London where he completed an MA in Literature at UCL. Since then he has lived and worked in Paris. David started writing at the age of nine by entering a school writing competition

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Our Story of the Week is The Glow Worm, a historical story from the writer Barbara Mercer. Barbara started writing as a child. She told us that at the age of ten, her first attempt at a novel featured a hard-boiled US detective. She thought it was a disaster but her parents found it hilarious. Since then she’s had two novels publishe

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Book to film adaptions are essentially an act of translation. As with languages, each medium has its own limitations and advantages. But is a successful adaption just about accurately representing the original story? As translators must navigate cultural disparities and idioms, adaptors must transform the mental experience into a visual a

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Our Story of the Week is The View of the Garden in Summer, a colourful art story from the talented writer Yvonne Dykes. Yvonne writes both short stories and longer fiction. In 2014, she self-published her first novel Brondesbury Villas on Amazon Kindle and began attending creative writing courses at City Lit. In 2015, her first short s

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Our Story of the Week is a humorous story from the imaginative writer Paul Sutton Reeves. Paul’s writing experience covers a range of styles. He wrote the biography of avant-garde musician, Bill Nelson and worked as a freelance journalist on the topics of music and economics. Paul is a ‘veteran of a number of obscure bands’ and t

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