Blue Electric opera of Major/Minor by Alba Arikha has received glowing reviews. There's one in Seen and Heard International here and one in London Theatre1 here and one in Opera Today here. Major/Minor by Alba Arikha is out now and available here.

'When monsters in horror movies roar grotesquely into view, it’s often the revelation that they’ve been there all along that’s the big scare. It’s a powerful trope: the axe murderer is locked in the house with you, the bomb is in the attic. We have always known that the US military does some dubious things to protect us. It has had to, we understand, for the safety and happiness of the free world; it has been constantly at war for peace for the best part of a century. Every so often, though, its monstrous identity is fully revealed. Too quickly, normality resumes, and the beast blends back into the shadows. The world moves on.'  Venetia Welby reviews Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange for Review31. You can read the review here. We will be publishing Dreamtime by Venetia Welby in March 2021. Information about the book is on the Waterstones website here now. 

You can watch Emmanuel Olympitis in conversation with Rupert Fairfax at a recent event here. They discuss Emmanuel's life and the writing of Marked Cards. Get your copy of the book here today.

In 2011 we published political essay Time for Outrage! by Stephane Hessel. Now there's an exhibition at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf named after the essay. You can read about the exhibition here.

Quartet author and psychotherapist Jane Haynes is on Times Radio now. Listen up here.

Nicola Madge has written a piece about lockdown dogs for the Psychology Today blog. You can read the article here. Nicola Madge is the co-author of Sixty Somethings. Get your copy of Sixty Somethings here today.

“Men marry women they think will never change, she’d said to him once in that bar by the sea. Go on, he replied, expecting an explanation, waiting for a way in. None came, of course…”

We’re delighted Quartet author Venetia Welby’s short story The Bar by the Sea has been published on The London Magazine

‘This is such an entertaining book especially if you did not live through that decade, or like Grace and I were only children. The fashion of Biba, Mary Quant, Ossie Clark, gamine models like Twiggy, the liberating contraceptive pill, hippies, protests and those geometric haircuts by Vidal Sassoon.’

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We’re delighted to announce that Major/Minor by Alba Arikha is now an opera called Blue Electric which will be at the Playground Theatre next week. You can read more details about it here. Alba Arikha’s beautiful memoir Major/Minor is available here now.