Fiction: special features

It is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North Yorkshire, 15 year-old Anna sits on a bedroom carpet immersed in the pages of Smash Hits, listening to cassette tapes that she keeps in a shoebox. She is dreaming of living inside the songs. The very same year, British music is about to be transformed and wi...

Private John Francis Clayton is on his first tour of duty in Vietnam, facing death at every turn in the middle of a war he doesn't understand. Clayton is just trying to stay alive when he encounters an elite platoon of ... simian soldiers? This squad of chain-smoking chimps is the most dangerous ...

Is the menopause really all about hot flushes, empty nests and HRT? Forty-three writers challenge the cliches in poetry and short fiction.

Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between rea...