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It's been just over a month since Philippa Holloway's lyrical, prescient debut novel The Half-life of Snails was published, and it's been a busy few weeks! The first launch, held at Staffordshire university, was followed by an online launch hosted by Edgehill Instistute of Social Responsibility, and then an event at Liverpool's fantastic WoWFest. All in the month of May!         The glowing reviews have been rolling in as well. Lunate described it as "that wonderful thing, a novel that can be read in several different ways. On the surface it is a gripping thriller, ripe for...

The first Parthian event at this year's Hay festival went with a bang yesterday evening! Max Boyce joined Carolyn Hitt on the Baillie Gifford Stage in front of a packed audience!   (Photo credit: Adam Tatton-Reid)   (Photo credit: Adam Tatton-Reid)   (Photo credit: Adam Tatton-Reid)   (Photo credit: Adam Tatton-Reid)   Copies of Max Boyce's book Hymns & Arias, the Selected Poems, Songs and Stories is available to buy in the Hay Festival bookshop. At 5.30pm today Peter Lord will be reviewing the iconic painting Vosper's Salem on the Festival Friends Stage, and tomorrow at 1pm we have Dylan...

  On Saturday at midday Cyril James Morris was at Goldstone Books in Carmarthen, signing copies of his debut novella The Herring Man and chatting to customers.   He'd hardly been there five minutes before the first queue of readers appeared, and for the next hour he could barely sign books fast enough!   Thank you so much to Paul and Heather at Goldstone Books for the warm welcome they gave to Cyril and his editor Carly. As an extra surprise, Cyril's daughter drove from Oxford to share the event with him and bag a signed copy for herself!  ...

The Sargasso Sea is characterised by its golden brown floating sargassum seaweed. Located in the North Atlantic Ocean the Sargasso Sea is the only sea without a land boundary and is instead bounded by a series of rotating currents on all sides. This open-ocean ecosystem plays a crucial role, acting as a haven to a multitude of marine species, providing habitats, spawning areas, migration pathways and feeding grounds to a diverse range of flora and fauna. The sargassum seaweed itself is holopelagic; never attaching to the seafloor during its lifecycle and instead matting together and creating floating seaweed beds. During early encounters...