Lucinda Hawksley: ‘I still haven’t been given an adequate explanation for why they are closing the Dickens Museum this year’
Lucinda Dickens-Hawksley talks about the closing of the Dickens Museum in his bicentenary year, and how Dickens’ personality traits can be traced through the family tree
Nelle Davy: ‘I was saved by stories’
Author Nelle Davy tells of her struggle from poverty to published author
Holocaust stories from another view
George and Mari Gomori have collected together a new volume of poetry on the Holocaust by Hungarian poets
Crouch End author writes poignant graphic novel about the death of her son
When Nicola Streeten began writing a graphic novel about her grief at losing her two-year-old son, there was one question everyone asked her – was it cathartic?
Read this book before it’s made into a big-screen thriller
SJ Watson’s debut is chilling in print and jangles the nerves
The true story of a lost boy that blurred fiction with reality
Sophie Radice was shocked to find a lost little boy on Hampstead Heath. She responded by writing a novel
Feeling optimistic? It’s no surprise
A Chalk Farm based neuroscientist has found that we are programmed to look on the bright side.
Philip Pullman tackles cavalier councils
Recently named one of the 100 most influential people in the book trade, the author has used his notoriety to boost support for local libraries
From cappuccino to humble pie, this writer has a taste for the origin of words
Mark Forsyth has been the writer of the Inky Fool blog since 2009. Now he tells the story of words in a book
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- Barbara Taylor Bradford is living her own very happy ever after
- DJ Connell has created an outsider who delivers some home truths about modern-day England
- AD Miller juggles 5am starts and fatherhood to make it to the Booker long list
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- David Pollock the key to taking the pain out of buying or selling your home
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- Rachel Johnson- this Lady is not for turning
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