What’s the point?

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

Stories of travel and estrangement

TRICKS LITERARY ILLUSIONS Performance magic and Victorian ...

ELLA came out of the head’s office trying not to punch the air with excitement. Her colleagues in the staff-room were eyeing her speculatively. Had she just been promoted? Or sacked? She recognised th

DANA NOVAK took a good, long look at the man. She knew that none of her clothes back at the tiny apartment she shared were going to cut it – not when introducing herself to Fischer. And she certainly

When it comes to the first five or six pages in any book, the reader can be sure of one thing. These are the pages the writer has gone over again and again. The words you read may flow or stumble forw