
Love Stories: From Shakespeare to Fifty Shades
If the oldest profession in the world is prostitution, the oldest story must be a romance. To quote Mrs. Potts from Beauty & the Beast, it’s a tale as old as time. As today is Valentine’s Day, we at Claret Press went around the office talking of love stories. The greatest challenge, we decided, is to create something new: a love story we hadn’t read before. After all, is there any genre more full with hoary chestnuts? Anyone can write a cheesy love story (vampires dripping, b

Shooting for the Sky: Women Breaking Barriers Since 1918
Yesterday marked the 100-year anniversary of the Representation of the People Act – when some women first won the right to vote in the Unite