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  For the cover of Why Writing Still Matters I wanted an image that conveyed some of the messages that are to be found in the book - and th...

In Why Writing Still Matters I spend some time tracing the invention and development of paper as a writing technology, but not with the det...

My new book Why Writing Still Matters was published by Cambridge University Press last week. I haven't actually seen a copy yet - distr...

I read The Memory Police about a year ago and I thought it was so good that I should post something about it. I put the book down on the de...

When my mother died, I couldn't work out what to do with the desk she had. It was rather like the one here, and it had been part of the ...

I remember a time when writing with a fountain pen was something to aspire to. Yes, the fountain pen with its little metal lever, delicately...

Helping us to reflect on our particular position in the wider sweep of social and cultural life is something that literature does well. I do...