Site search

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Writing Queer Autofiction: Introduction to Auto Fiction: Diaries and Letters

5 Great Things to Do in Nottingham This Week: UB40, Lockdown Diaries and More

From theatre shows like Dreamgirls to Notts literature icons like Sue Cheung, we've got an exciting week coming up in our city...

The Diaries of Nottingham WWI Soldier Are Being Made into an Exhibition and Play

For years they lay hidden away in the attic of a house in New Zealand. But now, the missing World War One diaries of Nottingham soldier Billy Richards have been discovered, and are being used as the basis for a new exhibition and play...

Hong Kong Diaries 12: Going with a Bang

Well, it’s that time of year again, when every few minutes’ shock has us momentarily parting with our skin. Yes, Chinese New Year and the detonation of firecrackers throughout the village to keep those dastardly evil spirits at bay; of which there’s clearly quite a few judging by the frequency of reports and the swathes of red debris carpeting the area.

Hong Kong Diaries: A Scary Tale Christmas

Our man in Hong Kong compares and contrasts the festive seasons of his faraway position in the world, and of humble Nottingham...

The Diary of a Nottingham Man in Hong Kong

Nottingham’s best travelled writer, Ben Zabulis, discovers a culture so obsessed with reading they queue up overnight for the Hong Kong Book Festival…

Hong Kong Diaries 9: Ticket to Ride

"Shatin is what's known as a new town development and thereby highly populated; size-wise think of Mansfield but unvandalised, safe and with a million people"

Hong Kong Diaries 7: One Year Anniversary!

Kidnapped book publishers, crazy weather and a riot inspired by fishballs. Ben Zabulis reflects on his new life abroad.

Hong Kong Diaries 6: High Rise

"Whereas Hyson Green was given over to minimal housing, Shek Kip Mei morphed into a larger version of its old self with 8 new blocks of 36-storeys"

Hong Kong Diaries 5: It's All Gone Suzie Wong

"The Oxfam Trailwalker was inaugurated as a Gurkha training exercise. In short, it’s a masochistic 100km hike"

Hong Kong Diaries 4: The Trent Flows East at Notts

"Sometimes, I think, slurping a decent wonton, that if it wasn’t for the heat and the city it’s as if we’d never left Notts at all."

Hong Kong Diaries 3: Losing My Religion

"Imagine all your worst enemies, admittedly dead ones, coming back to haunt you. So it’s a serious event and these boggers need appeasing."

Hong Kong Diaries 2: Some like it hot

"In Nottingham foxes scavenge the bins by night, here King Cobras enticed by poorly packed human refuse can compete."

Hong Kong Diaries 1: Far East from Notts

Pils 'n' thrills with Ben and Hils...

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

"I’m glad that Rock City has stuck around like a shelter from the storm. It's good when you have a club that has that energy to it and has been taken care of"

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

"I’m glad that Rock City has stuck around like a shelter from the storm. It's good when you have a club that has that energy to it and has been taken care of"