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History & The Arts
Writing across cultures
Xiaolu Guo explains how she approached her novel, A Concise Chinese–English Dictionary for Lovers - making creativity work across the English and Chinese languages
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History & The Arts
What do literary agents do?
Johnny Gellar explains what it is that literary agents do to earn their money - and help their authors earn theirs!
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History & The Arts
Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen
After Leonard Cohen's death, Richard Danson Brown explores the way the songwriter specialised in conveying difficulties in father-son relationships through his songs, including 'Hallelujah'.
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History & The Arts
Neil Gaiman on his inspirations as a fantasy author
Author, Neil Gaiman, discusses how P.L. Travers (author of Mary Poppins) and Enid Blyton were both a catalyst for his love of fantasy fiction.
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History & The Arts
Dame Stella Rimington on John le Carré
British author and former Director General of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, tells us why she thinks John le Carré is the master of the spy novel in Cold War times and draws on her own experience.
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History & The Arts
Val McDermid on celebrity villains in crime novels
Val McDermid talks about her inspirations for the monstrous character of Jacko Vance in 'Wire in the Blood' and how celebrity is the new lord of the manor in the crime genre.
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History & The Arts
National Poetry Day
Get your quills at the ready and your thesaurus on standby for this collection of content exploring the magical world of poetry on National Poetry Day.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"
The writer Josh Bernoff hails Oliver Sacks' ability to engage readers from the start.