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Lee Wright was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire in 1980 and has been writing fiction since 2008. He has benefited from studying under Man Booker Prize short-listed author, Alison Moore and is taking an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester in 2017.

Literature

Book Review | Your Fault by Andrew Cowan

Lee Wright Mar 11, 2019 0

Using the same narrative method that proved so successful for Jay McInerney with his 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City; Andrew Cowan delivers an at times tormenting account of childhood, told in the second person. Your Fault begins in…

Literature

Book Review | Sunny the Ghosts By Alison Moore

Lee Wright Jan 21, 2019 0

It is said that a good writer can turn their hand to any genre, and with her debut children’s book, Alison Moore has put that to the test. There has always been a child-like innocence to many of the protagonists in Moore’s adult novels.…

Literature

Fortnightly Fiction | V

Lee Wright Jun 11, 2018 0

Harley got out of bed and shone the torch into the car park. V sat up straight, switched on her lamp, then waited, like a hospital patient. ‘Can you see anything?’ Harley moved the light over to the trees, seeing the man moving like…

Film

A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother | Psycho II at 35

Lee Wright Jun 3, 2018 1

Sequels are unnecessary and more often than not, feel like a missed opportunity. There are though, a few rare exceptions. Psycho II is one of them. Anthony Perkins had already starred in eleven feature films before director Alfred…

Literature

“If it can go, it should go – that’s my motto.” | Interview with Stephan Collishaw

Lee Wright Apr 28, 2018 0

In early March I was in attendance at the literary festival known as States of Independence, organised by Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham and held at the De Montfort University in Leicester. It was a day of ideas, to witness how much…

Film

Retro Review | George Clooney Killed as a Brooding Hitman in The American

Lee Wright Apr 16, 2018 0

As Clooney's Catch 22 adaptation moves forward and his film Suburbicon is released on DVD, Lee Wright looks back at the actor's underappreciated 2008 thriller The American. Spoilers ahead. Twenty-years after Martin Booth’s A Very Private…

Literature

Review | Blake Morrison’s The Executor

Lee Wright Apr 11, 2018 0

The Executor is Blake Morrison’s fourth novel, and his first since 2010’s excellent Othello-inspired The Last Weekend. Like that previous novel, The Executor has a first-person narrator, 40-something Matt Holmes, telling us his version…

Fortnightly Fiction

Fortnightly Fiction | Seeking Lover, Lonely Mother

Lee Wright Jun 3, 2017 0

I was wounded. She was lonely. Lonely mother seeks attractive lover (45-65) with the soul of Bruce Springsteen, the mind of Aristotle and the charisma of James Stewart. ONO. Email [email protected] Why not. After…