Creative reading (pa r t 2)

A year without reading

WORDS THAT HEAL

Literary culture has never been secure from the philistines but books need better publicity

Douglas Adams, of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame, was famously easily distracted, not to say a little work shy. He is supposed to have said, ‘I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they m

COUNTRY LIFE staff pick where in London they most enjoy getting lost in the written word

Those brilliant ideas for stories that mysteriously bubble up from somewhere deep in the subconscious to wake an author in the middle of the night, and get them groping for the notebook or phone they