The Fence

All Possible Plots II

You could read a book, but why bother? Here, we list all the possible plots every author could come up with instead.
Lotte Brundle

The Deadly Double

Is the ‘deadly double’ – living in Clapham, working in Canary Wharf – the most depressing life a Londoner can lead?
John Phipps

Life of Reilly

In the heart of Drogheda lives an Irish man on a peculiar crusade. We meet Tom Reilly, a historian hellbent on clearing the name of Oliver Cromwell.
Anonymous

End of a Sentence

The life of a probation officer is part social work, part teacher, all about connecting with people on a human level. This anonymous account takes us to the ground level of the industry.
Andrew Hunter Murray

Baron Wastelands

We imagine barons as rural land magnates, shagging the wives of their miserable villein tenantry. But there are modern, urban peers too. Those who stalk the very streets of our capital.
Richard Smyth

Under the Hammer

In Nottinghamshire lives an Odinist cult. We meet the charming, not very Nordic, Viking obsessed men of the Odinist Fellowship of Newark-on-Trent.
George Francis Lee

In The Witch’s Living Room

Strap in for some northern sorcery with the Wolves of Brigantia.
Camilla Bell-Davies

Among the Russians

Around 30,0000 Russians fled to Serbia at the beginning of the Ukraine war. At a foggy banya in the middle of Belgrade, some of them tell us why.
Joe Bishop

Bib Brother

The Michelin Guide is arcane, self-serious and totally nonsensical. Even the chefs themselves can't workout the star system. And yet, we can't bear to break away from it.
Jordan Michelman

A Haunting in Shoreditch

The Ace of shades.