Fiction

Article
17 min read
27th July 2012
Edited
7th October 2020
Writing plays for children is not a soft option. David Wood considers children to be the most difficult audience to write for and shares his thoughts...
Blog
5 min read
29th May 2012
Edited
8th December 2020

When I started writing The Fall, I was in a state of what I like to describe now as ‘happy ignorance’. I was just telling the story I...

Blog
2 min read
9th May 2012
Edited
8th December 2020

An Oxford undergraduate, Samantha Shannon, has just been offered a six figure, three book deal by Bloomsbury. Such news can make us older writers...

Blog
2 min read
18th April 2012
Edited
8th December 2020

Novelist Rebecca Abrams once told me that the reason that men loved puns and women couldn’t see the point of them was because women’s...

Blog
4 min read
3rd February 2012
Edited
10th December 2020

Imagine standing at the open door of a room where all is in darkness, and you can see nothing. Imagine someone flicking on the...