Murasaki shikibu the first novelist

The precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë

Oh, you want to hear about fairy-tale retellings? You want to know the secret of why I write them? Is that it? Fine. Come a little closer. These aren’t some enchanted beans I’m selling, this is the re

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

Shadows Ulrik Skotte The Umbrella Murder The ...

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

Ten creative thinkers who across the centuries helped shape Istanbul into the city it is today