LivingReading How reading can improve your love life Have you ever tried reading aloud with someone else? Have you noticed differences in the reading process?
Literary events Book fairs are dangerous Do you ever get carried away in bookshops or at bookfairs, and buy far more than you’d planned? Is it consumerism, or…
Literary events Test of stamina at Bim Literary Festival, day two Wow. That was intense. Three hours on a hard bench listening to poetry readings with no break and no refreshments. That’s a…
Literary events Earl Lovelace at Bim Literary Festival Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace was the second attraction last night at Bim Literary Festival. For my report on the first part of…
Literary events Austin Clarke at Bim Literary Festival After my unintended gatecrashing of a class with Derek Walcott earlier in the day, this was an event I was actually allowed…
Literary events Learning from Derek Walcott: Bim Literary Festival, day one How often do you get to meet a Nobel Prize winner? That was my main rationale for going along to a Master Class with…
Literary events Great opportunity for unpublished UK writers If you are an unpublished UK writer with a novel manuscript ready for submission, I’d strongly recommend that you check out the…
On the Holloway Road How to write a book review Just saw a nice post on Read.Learn.Write which goes into the methodology of writing book reviews, using my novel On the Holloway…
The writing process How writers generate ideas One of the most common questions I'm asked whenever I give a talk is "How do you generate ideas?" The honest answer…