Seven Deadly Fears of Writing

What’s been stopping you from producing that magnum opus? Taken from the opening of Jurgen Wolff’s 2007 Your Writing Coach, … More

Outlining a book

Sixty, seventy, eighty thousand words or more. That’s your typical novel. Somehow you have to get to there from … More

Back to where we started. Earlier this year we revamped The Art of Foil Fencing with a new cover because … More

Earlier this year we revamped The Art of Foil Fencing with a new cover because the original was, well, terrible. … More

Let’s start with the basics: ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. It’s an international system of identifying books by … More

First broadcast December 18, 2012 on the Ubuntu UK Podcast [BED – DESTINATION; DOCUMENTARY THEME TUNE] FERGUS Hello. I’m the … More

“First, I’ll tell you about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.” Now that’s a … More

You may have been disappointed by the film, but Susan Hill’s riveting novella is a Christmas story to rival Dickens, … More

Schlink is fascinated by criminal responsibility. The Weekend addresses the question at the heart of The Reader – can homicide … More

Less Upstairs, Downstairs than inside the family and out The 835 pages of The Crimson Petal and the White may … More