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Andrew Marvell (1621 – 1678) an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician, sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1678...

‘To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and...

For most people in England in the Middle Ages, life centred around the village. The village was usually part of an estate called a manor...

Have you ever had a book on your bookshelf for almost twenty years before you decide to actually sit down and begin reading it? In the...

​ ​Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 – 1973) was an English-American poet whose poetry was noted for its technicality and its political content as...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

I had the great pleasure the other week of getting to rewatch the BBC television 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,...

Okay, so if you’ve been following this series you’ll have picked up on the general idea that overnight success is probably not on the...