The view from here literary magazine

Promoting a Modern Novel

Or trying to make sense of the universe
Barry Cunningham Interview

We can hardly have an interview and not ask you a little about Harry Potter
Stereotypes and Writing

I’m not sure when I first became really aware of the impact of stereotypes, but it might have been when I moved to England in the early 1980s and many people called me ‘the Yank.’
Iain M. Banks Interview

Most people have a sort of reservoir of disturbing images and most people don’t want to think about them and so they only come out at night when their guard is down. Where as I’m quite happily thinking about them.
Mission Impossible

by the editor
Dear Mike, I'm afraid I can't help. I haven't written a synopsis for about 25 years - for a non-fiction book I never finished. best, Julian Barnes
John Boyne Interview

by Karen Roy
John Boyne is the award winning author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Stephen Kelman Interview

by Claire King
Stephen Kelman is the author of the critically acclaimed Booker shortlisted novel Pigeon English.
The Stories & The Stars

by Elizabeth Baines
Jung and Freud and an entanglement with Knightley
Self Publish and be Damned

By Roger Morris
Publishing is a business. Writing is an art. What does that make self-publishing? Utter folly, of course.