Strong Words Issue 58

Strong words is for people who love books, love reading about them, and need an entertaining, useful and reliable source of suggestions as to what to read next. Now published 6 times a year, it covers new fiction and nonfiction alike and has developed a fanatical following who can't get get enough of its witty enthusiasm and its utter refusal to admit blurb, cliché and academic jargon.

Issue 58 goes behind the headlines and beneath the surface, where teenage prisoners write novels, royal butlers explain the tea set, and Hollywood legends turn out to be less legendary than they claimed. From the scandalous power of the press to the intimate detail of the female body, this one digs deep.

More inside includes: spasms in the classroom, exile on an island, myth in the river, fury in the newsroom, and poison on the page.