Creative reading (pa r t 2)

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

Don’t write what you know; write what you love. Writing my first novel, Lady MacBethad, was like the bursting of a pipe. The words gushed out of me, and the story flew onto the page with a kind of fre

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

What’s in a Year: A Countryman’s Tale Through ...

Review of reviews: Books

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