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FOR more than three decades, Julia Donaldson’s works have enchanted children across the world. Her illustrious career has seen her writing more than 200 books which have sold millions of copies and be

The Writing Magazine Children’s Book Prize is running again this autumn, and we are looking for outstanding texts from unagented and unpublished authors. We have two categories: picture books and chap

One of the unexpected outcomes of being a literary agent is that it means I am in the privileged position of knowing exactly how tough it is to forge a career with your pen. As a result, it is always

My life in the cheese world stemmed from a geeky fascination with microbial life and how those living microbes can change a food product. I started painting through a fascination with soil microbiolog

When I was 16 I knew I wanted to try and get into art college. So art was a fairly big preoccupation. I think I was also very interested in playing football on the street. I was maybe starting to get

Actor, presenter and now author Larry Lamb reveals why the written word – particularly verse – has always meant so much to him