Contemporary

Your book is in a realistic setting, and your fictional characters depict modern themes and the society in which we live. This is quite a broad category as it can cross with other genres. Popular authors of contemporary fiction include Ann Patchett, Zadie Smith and Nick Hornby.

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4 min read
17th September 2015
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23rd September 2020
Author Polly Ho-Yen discusses setting in writing, and why it's important to remember that writing is - first and foremost - about living.
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6 min read
9th September 2015
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25th January 2021

The page is where a person should hold no reservations; where we come to purge our demons, to have our dreams come true vicariously through our...

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6 min read
26th February 2015
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14th October 2020

Gone Girl, How to be Both, Instructions for a Heatwave: everyone’s at it - using dual or multiple narratives to interweave two or more stories...