Bring out your baddies

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

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

The mythology surrounding creative and scientific breakthroughs

FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS, THE ACTOR HAS FOUND HIMSELF DRAWN TO THE DARK AND THE DISTURBING… AND THE STRANGE. NOW, AS HE PLAYS POWER-HUNGRY MANIAC LEX LUTHOR IN SUPERMAN , HE TELLS US WHY NORMALITY IS HIS KRYPTONITE

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