Oliver Burkeman on How Ancient Philosophy Can Cure Your Social Media Addiction
We’re often told that we’re living, these days, through a “crisis of distraction”, and what people really mean by distraction is digital distraction: it’s what happens when the internet gets in the way...
View ArticlePaula Hawkins on Creating A Slow Fire Burning
Like the two books I wrote before it, A Slow Fire Burning grew out of a character. And, like the two novels before it, developing that character and finding the right story for her wasn’t an entirely...
View ArticleEmma Carroll Recommends Stories That Highlight Children's Political Currency
Because Children Have Currency It’s a crucial starting point when writing any new story – what do my characters want? How are they going to get it? That I write for children isn’t an issue: just as us...
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The Waterstones Round Up: September's Best Children's Books
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View ArticleHow We Made: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
When Susanna Clarke's magical vision of an alternate Georgian England arrived it became an instant bestseller but as we discover in this episode, the book's journey was far from certain. Clarke shares...
View ArticleClare Povey on Her Favourite Children's Books Set in Paris
Paris is a city that evokes romance and adventure at the mere mention of its name. You can often find the French capital gracing ‘Most Visited Cities in the World’ lists year after year. The...
View ArticleElodie Harper's Favourite Novels Set in the Ancient World
Re-imagining the ancient world I can still remember the first time I read Catullus in a Latin class at school. It was not what I expected the voice of an ancient writer to sound like: colloquial,...
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The Waterstones Round Up: September's Best Books
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View ArticleCat Jarman on What We Now Know About the Vikings
In 1992, on a school trip to the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway, I lagged behind my class because the stern of the Gokstad ship had completely transfixed me: impossibly big, impossibly old, and...
View ArticleLemony Snicket on How to Solve Your Own Murder
Suspicious death is one of those phrases, like "sudden avalanche", "bear mauling", or "decaffeinated coffee" that, while already monstrous to read, becomes much, much worse when it happens to you. A...
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