‘with fiction, you are making the world’

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

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AI, literary theory and traditional storytelling

Mothers are the most familiar strangers in our lives, says novelist Abigail Bergstrom. We grow up believing we know them inside out, and, yet, how much of them do we truly see?

Iris climbed down from the donkey cart that had given her a lift from Penzance station, being careful not to ladder her best stockings, and walked up the narrow lane to Nantolven Farm. There was no si