Unreliable narrators and uncooperative protagonists

WINDINGS NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE ...

From dilapidated cottages to the site of a notorious nuclear disaster, what is behind the longing to seek out abandoned places, asks Katie Scott

ADMISSIONS SHADOW WORK Loneliness and the literary ...

TRICKS LITERARY ILLUSIONS Performance magic and Victorian ...

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

FOR HELEN LEWIS, THERE IS A “POLITICAL message ...