Confessions of Nothing
How I revolutionised mascara at the age of seven in my mum’s car and how she didn’t understand.
Archive
The Working Class Library Episode 1: New Grub Street by George Gissing
Gissing expert Simon James joins us to consider how **New Grub Street** became so topical again, and to ask if it deserves a place in our fantasy library.
An Introduction to New Grub Street
How the troubled George Gissing inspired Orwell, and foretold the influence of Amazon, BookTok and poverty porn.
Plastic Venus
**“Life was hard in the city over the river. The summer’s riots still smouldered. Then one day, a car crossed the river. A Merc, with windows tinted darker than the night.”**
Hickling Hands
**“From the top of the hilly field, he looked down to the factories where he used to work, dog treats, loose change and his phone jangling in his fleece pocket.”** Mie Murasa looks back on her friendship with her grandad in Noughties Sheffield.
Procurement Process Blues
How did it become so hard to get paid what you’re owed?
A Class of Our Own
The world needs more working-class writers. The Bee is going to find, nurture and publish them.
On the Joys of Secretly Reading at Work
Are books more enjoyable when read in unusual places?
Class & the Health Lottery
Why can’t all the fat, lazy, poor people be as healthy and successful as right-wing political commentators?
