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Write Side Left is a new publisher of multifaceted writing freed from the burden and compartmentalisation of genre. Our mission is to engage, stimulate, challenge and entertain both hemispheres of our readers' minds, without prejudice to either.
A role for Artists in Troubled Times
Five essays by an award-winning photographer
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Jeff Koons at The Ashmolean
Here’s an interesting take, originally published in the Oxford Review, & packed with his usual erudition & wit by Oxford Emeritus Fellow Bernard Richards (©Bernard Richards, Oxford Magazine)
Published at midnight: A Role for Artist in Troubled Times
Published at midnight, worldwide in all formats: A Role for Artists in Troubled Times. A timely contribution to the debate about the sincere purpose and practice of art when we urgently need to get things right. A beautifully illustrated collection of essays by an award-winning photographer. Partly autobiographical, it starts with multidisciplinary stories of pictures Read more about Published at midnight: A Role for Artist in Troubled Times[…]
A Forgettable Man: coming soon
Writesideleft is delighted to have the opportunity to take under its umbrella the exquisite psychological thriller, A Forgettable Man, by award-winning filmmaker, photographer, writer & man of conscience, Robert Golden – we’ll be reprinting it & relaunching it in all formats worldwide imminently
Published in print & ebook 5 October
An experiment: a conversation between the generations, a magical book of surprises. Tales of the Unexpected for our times. Coming 5 October.
Audiobooks & The Male
Here’s an extract of an interesting article in the press today that both affirms audiobook user habits gender-specifically and Writesideleft’s choice of a male narrator, specifically. ©Matthew Moore, The Times ( 9th April 2018) “Encouraging young men to read books for pleasure has long been a challenge for publishers. The solution, it seems, is to allow Read more about Audiobooks & The Male[…]
Lists, Big Ideas, Small Places
We all do lists. Agendas. Hierarchies. Humans. Subsets, like writers, artists, wistful thinkers. Memoranda for survival: diaries, shopping lists…to-do lists. And often with attributed $£€ signs. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, James, Waugh, EM Forster, Woolf, Marx (he seemed to think the imagination couldn’t exist without lucre), FS Fitzgerald, Martin Amis forwards […] They’re very convenient. And Read more about Lists, Big Ideas, Small Places[…]
Stories 2018: a collaboration with citizens of everywhere
In progress: our first genre-busting collection of short stories, a risky challenging experiment: we’ve asked young, older, mature and raw writers of any background, origin, orientation or belief to contribute a story (not necessarily conventionally told) that examines the sometimes unintended consequences of our attempts to connect with other human beings, whether loved ones or strangers. An Read more about Stories 2018: a collaboration with citizens of everywhere[…]
First Six Months
A picture tells several thousand words
Audiobook now live
WriteSideleft’s first audiobook of Carnaval is now available. An experiment, an investment in talent, a fun listen, a nod to the time-honoured tradition of story-telling, it’s beautifully voiced entirely in tune with the novel’s narrator’s intention – a quirky vocal voyage of discovery, a coming of age as it’s told! You can listen to it Read more about Audiobook now live[…]
‘When they speak we need to listen’
‘When they speak we need to listen,’ wrote Brasenose College Emeritus Fellow Bernard Richards in his essay: Henry James as Comic Writer: ‘literally listen – to experience the maximum response. This is entirely in line with a very important criterion that James recommended; the criterion of the audible in literature. It has often been recognised in Read more about ‘When they speak we need to listen’[…]