Lone wolf or pack animal?

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

How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

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

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