Rob McInroy's Writing Blog

  I remember buying and reading Lesley Glaister’s early works when I was a stock librarian in the nineties. As is often the case, I was init...

Man at Sea is told in two time frames, in 1941 in Malta, with the citizens enduring a Nazi and Italian bombardment, and in 1961, when Stuar...

This is the basic plot of Kirsti Wishart’s The Knitting Station : at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a woman who worked at Bletchley P...

In my review of the first Rilke novel, The Cutting Room , I observed how refreshing it was to have a main character who happened to be gay w...

I remember when I read 1984, and talked about it to people afterwards, being surprised when they declared it was science-fiction. I’d alread...

  Many moons ago I spent a few days with Dan Malakin on a writing course so I’ve long known him to be an all-round good guy and a damned goo...

December 1591, a prison dungeon in Edinburgh and in it a young woman – a child, really, only fifteen – called Geillis Duncan, spending her l...

  James Purdy’s second novel, The Nephew , written in 1961, was controversial in its day and – sadly – the reason for that controversy still...