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How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

A bit of a mess

Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

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Over my decades-long writing life, I’ve been a reader, judge and (sometimes) an organiser for many novel-writing competitions, including the Harry Bowling Prize, the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s