Ella Barker “I am sending a manuscript into time. Will any human beings be waiting there to receive it?” As the first author to participate in a century-long initiative, Margaret Atwood sums […]
Future Libraries: Is Anybody Out There?
Prison Literature – Part 1: The Writer as Prisoner
Bramina Braet Prison literature is a genre characterized by works that are written while the author is incarcerated. The literature can be about prison, informed by it, or simply coincidentally written while […]
Why I Write in My Books (& You Should Too)
Rosie Featherstone What do your books look like after you have read them? Are you a puritan, someone who considers a dog-eared page book blasphemy? Or do your books go through a […]
Philip Pullman’s ‘Pernicious’ Discounts
Finley Harnett As I walked past W.H. Smith on Coney Street, I noticed new copies of Philip Pullman’s long-awaited follow-up to his Dark Materials trilogy, The Book of Dust. ‘ONLY £9’, a […]
Let’s Talk About Reading
Ellie Fells Why do we have this strange insistence on reading being a quiet activity? From the age of about 5 children are more or less forced to read in silence, a […]
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