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Print, ebook, & audiobooks: A conversation between Generations
Write Side Left publishes across the generations, multifaceted writing freed from the pigeon-holing of genre. We want to engage, stimulate, challenge and entertain both hemispheres of our readers' minds...without prejudice to either.
Driveshaft: Dec 19
For 70s Film Lovers
Breaking Glass, Poetry – Nov 19
The posthumously published poetry of esteemed poet & Nazi Germany refugee Beata
States of Man – Sept 19
Short stories: To be a Man - was it always so complicated?
A Role for Artists – Essays – Dec 18
Essays upon the imperative of art by an award winning filmmaker & photographer
If This Then That – by new & older writers – Oct 18
Introducing new young writers in the company of their elders - something for everyone
A Good Man – Nov 17
Derek loves Shakespeare but finds life as a teacher challenging
Carnaval – Oct 17
A baby-boomer satire for Brexit & Trump times.
A Forgettable Man
A thriller, a war novel, a love-story.
Published this quarter
States of Man
States of Man Audiobook
States of Man Audio Teaser
Audio Teasers
new narrators & composer
States of Man new music
If This Then That excerpt
Carnaval intro
News
To be a man—was it always thus? States of Man: out 30 Sept & our cake is ready
These wonderful new stories by Gareth Cadwallader, published to early critical acclaim are darkly funny, melancholic, generous, mildly exasperated and elegantly wrought; above all as the sum of their parts, they satisfy WriteSideLeft’s favourite exhaustive definition of irony: A multiplicity of points of view. Yes, that multiplicity requires we hear or read , we spot Read more about To be a man—was it always thus? States of Man: out 30 Sept & our cake is ready[…]
Audiobook coming
The audiobook of If This Then That is in production and will be released & available everywhere soon. We’re looking forward to adding to WriteSideLeft’s growing roster of stonking new talent: narrators, Barney & Leo Goodall, are busy rendering the stories in a multiplicity of styles and voices that do more than justice to those Read more about Audiobook coming[…]
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[…]