Sensoryoverload

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

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Sometimes it’s not what is said that counts, but the unconscious messages and gestures the body gives away

SPOOKY STORIES OF SINISTER SPECTRES ARE NOTHING NEW. HERE, DR IRVING FINKEL TELLS US ABOUT THE GHOSTS OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

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

How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing