Fanning a spark to flame

Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

Don’t write what you know; write what you love. Writing my first novel, Lady MacBethad, was like the bursting of a pipe. The words gushed out of me, and the story flew onto the page with a kind of fre

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

Something was missing from Roxanne’s life – but what was it?

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

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