six things: Helen Joyce

About Helen Helen Joyce is The Economist’s Brazil Bureau Chief, based in São Paulo. Between 2005 and 2009 she was the paper’s education correspondent, based in London, before which she edited Plus, an online magazine about mathematics, for the University of Cambridge, and Significance, the quarterly magazine of the Royal…
sunday best #8: “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
six things: Michelle McGrane

About Michelle Michelle McGrane is the author of The Suitable Girl (published by Pindrop Press in the United Kingdom and Modjaji Books in South Africa). She lives in Johannesburg and blogs at Peony Moon. Michelle’s website: Peony Moon • One thing that’s always worth getting out of bed for Unexpected…
sunday best #7: “The Sea-Thing Child”

The Sea-Thing Child Russell Hoban, illustrated by Patrick Benson 1999, re-published in 2000 by Walker Kona Macphee says: “This 1999 “children’s story” from Russell Hoban, poignantly illustrated in muted seaside colours by Patrick Benson, is one of my favourite books. The sea-thing child is a young creature washed up on…
six things: Katy Evans-Bush

About Katy Katy Evans-Bush is the author of Me and the Dead (Salt) and Oscar & Henry (Rack Press). She edits the online literary magazine Horizon Review, blogs at Baroque in Hackney, and tutors independently and for the Poetry School. Her new collection, Egg Printing Explained, will be published by…
sunday best #6: “Thumbprint”
six things: Mark Harding

About Mark Mark Harding is the editor of Music For Another World, a collection of fantasy and science fiction stories on the theme of music that was reviewed by Interzone as “one of the most exciting and original collections in years”. The anthology includes Neil Williamson‘s Arrhythmia, which has made…
sunday best #5: “Greenvoe”
six things: Alastair Cook

About Alastair Alastair Cook is a fine art photographer, filmmaker and RIBA Conservation Accredited architect. He writes: “My film and photographic work is guided by my knowledge, skill and experience as a conservation architect: the work is rooted in place and the intrinsic connections between people, land and heritage. I…