Leyshon

After publishing "An Ex-Mas Feast", one of the stories in his first collection Say You're One of Them (2008), in The New Yorker’s Début Fiction issue, Akpan discussed his writing with Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor

Uwem Akpan - An interview with author 2010

After publishing "An Ex-Mas Feast", one of the stories in his first collection Say You're One of Them (2008), in The New Yorker’s Début Fiction issue, Akpan discussed his writing with Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor

Uwem Akpan - An interview with author 2010

Devotion by Nell Leyshon covers similar moral territory now I think about it.

45 entries from March 2008 2008

Leyshon has carried out in-depth research at the modern day Bethlem Royal Hospital for her play, set in gin-soaked 18th-century London, when people paid a penny to see the "lunaticks".

This week's new theatre 2010

Leyshon writes sympathetically, with a lightly reforming spirit.

Deathtrap; Bedlam; Tiny Kushner 2010

My thoughts on Nell Leyshon's latest novel Devotion have walked on over to the Picador blog for any Leyshon fans out there who might be interested.

47 entries from February 2008 2008

While painting a portrait of the appalling conditions, Leyshon shows how an inhuman regime can be changed.

This week's new theatre 2010

My thoughts on Nell Leyshon's latest novel Devotion have walked on over to the Picador blog for any Leyshon fans out there who might be interested.

Devotion - Nell Leyshon 2008

Leyshon is the author of Bedlam, part of artistic director Dominic Dromgoole's drive to bring new writing to the theatre.

This week's new theatre 2010

My thoughts on Nell Leyshon's latest novel Devotion have walked on over to the Picador blog for any Leyshon fans out there who might be interested.

Devotion - Nell Leyshon 2008