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Walking On Bones

Walking on Bones

Vicente Leñero, a well-known Mexican journalist and novelist, died at the beginning of December. I was at the Guadalajara Book Fair at the time, and during the various homages to...
Harnessing The Dream

Harnessing The Dream

I wrote songs before I wrote plays. Endless teenage evenings were spent bent crooked over a guitar, eyes shut, feeling the direction of the words, sensing the shift of the...
The Story Of Ourselves

The Story Of Ourselves

Perhaps some time recently, before lockdown, you dropped into a high-street coffee chain and noticed, while sipping your latte, that the story of the farmer who produced your coffee beans...
A Self Among The Crowd

A Self Among the Crowd

Charlotte Mew’s most – indeed only – famous poem ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ (1912) currently features on a syllabus for GCSE. She is not, then, entirely forgotten; although beyond the world...

Being a writer

Meet the new you Being a new student can often seem like finding yourself in one of those science fiction films where the heroine wakes up one morning and finds...

Sentences

Compare the examples below Unclear example: Actually, storage is a real pain in small rooms. Every year students have exams and when they are over they have a problem knowing...
A Forest Called Homeland

A Forest Called Homeland

Many paths led to this forest clearing, and none of them were driveable. Still, people had driven through cliff gorges, along the dug-out drove roads from Ottoman days that derange...
Delight In The Dullest Of Places

Delight In The Dullest Of Places

If you could re-live your fifth birthday, what would be top of your present list? I may be wrong, but it probably wouldn’t be a book about democracy. This is...
The Bestseller Detector

The Bestseller Detector

Publishers like to pretend that they can sniff out potential winners, but major bestsellers come out of the blue. This is because bestsellers exist in a chaotic environment. Not because...
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