Setting part two

One of the unexpected outcomes of being a literary agent is that it means I am in the privileged position of knowing exactly how tough it is to forge a career with your pen. As a result, it is always

K.S. Ford has always been a storyteller but only began writing novels after he retired in 2020. The Woman Who Loves is his seventh original story and the first one written outside of his own experienc

Become absorbed in the journey, not the destination

This month’s story, ‘The Curious Case of Davidson’s Eyes’ by HG Wells, has a superficially simple premise. But, as we’ll see, that premise throws up a lot of conundrums in the course of the narrative.

When you mention fantasy fiction as a genre, your initial thoughts on what that means are liable to be pretty grand-scale – sweeping court intrigue, powerful and dangerous creatures threatening humani

Smothering, transformative and beautiful, fog’s close-set shroud has inspired titans of literature, cinema and art–and forces the rest of us to look at the world a little closer, writes John Lewis-Stempel