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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...

You could imagine a particular kind writing workshop. There's an assignment: sketch out a story set on an island. Have two main characte...

In one way or another a work of fiction is always subject to the gravitational pull of the time in which it is made. Whether we're think...

The passenger sees the world from a particular point of view. Separate, like a spectator, a world unfolds through the frame of the window. T...

In the study of writing we often overlook the fact that the most commonly spoken language in the world is Chinese. Using characters - a form...

The public library was an important landmark in my childhood. It was in safe cycling distance, it was always warm, and it was the context fo...