So long, Leonard Cohen 1934-2016
The first great casualty of the Trump election was the complete opposite of Trump. So unlike Trump was Leonard Cohen that you cannot imagine the two on the same planet. At least Cohen, a poet, singer, ...
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So you want to be a writer?
I know from our postbag and the number of books that I get sent to review that many of our readers spend much time and effort writing a book, but of course, very few are published. Many accept that t ...
The Queen of Crime
This year sees the 125th anniversary of the birth of one of the world’s bestselling authors, Agatha Christie. The BBC showing a series of programmes to mark this event and the first is Partners in Cri ...
Self-publishing comes of age – could you be the next E L James?
The success of EL James and her Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy did much to overturn the stereotype of a self-published author. Gone is the image of eccentrics writing away in their sheds as it is reveal ...