Rebirth

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous
beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner
or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
– Albert Camus

The Coffee Addict’s Guide

One Man & His Stage

Simon Callow talks to Henrietta Bredin about how he got closer to Dickens, Shakespeare and Wilde through the intense and complex medium of the one-man play

Unreal City

As part of Pen Pusher’s dedication to finding the best new writing voices, we will now be exclusively showcasing longer stories and chapters from talented, up-and-coming authors.

A Noise Like Wings

Something That Would Never Normally Happen

Tudor Girls

When We All Helped Out

Calling Kevin Mars

Icarus

For Ivy, wherever I may find her

The Reading

As Good As New

Missing from the Point of Duty

Public House

You know the way life’s shallow bowl

Observe the likeness of a slab of beef

The Ascent of Mount Fuji

Posh School

Epsom

Portfolio

African Psycho

Alain Mabanckou
(translated by Christine Schwartz Hartley)
Serpent’s Tail, 2007

The Crust on its Uppers

Robin Cook
New Authors Limited, 1962

Clearout Sale

Mark Edwards
Andromache Books, 2008

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
William Heinemann, 1963

Clearout Sale

Mark Edwards
Andromache Books, 2008

Dada Poem

I READ* by... Josie Long

Osterley Bookshop