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Ideas underpin any piece of fiction. They make the difference between the book that doesn’t get sold and the bestseller; they also make...

Philip Larkin has been called the other English poet laureate, though he is widely read in Europe and in the United States. Larkin’s idea...

Classically, prose is defined as a form of language based on grammatical structure and the natural flow of speech. It is normally...

A simple search on Google will give you a glimpse of the many thousands of books and blog posts that there are on writing. And on this...

In September, 1848, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and others founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,...

H. G. Wells. the scientific rationalist and author, famous for the novels The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine  and...

In Charles Dickens' Ironic masterpiece Great Expectations , it's not difficult to spot our protagonist. The opening of the novel labours...

If we can grasp the rather strange idea that characters in fiction are not ‘people’ at all, but constructs, almost mechanical in nature,...

We’re so used to thinking of the physical universe as obeying certain ‘laws’ that we can get muddled about the idea of it.   A ‘law’...