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  • The Emotional Craft of Fiction

    The Emotional Craft of Fiction

    The Emotional Craft of Fiction by literary agent Donald Maas is an excellent book for any writers trying to ensure that their novels have emotional depth and will resonant with their readers at a cellular level. Each section is clearly structured, starting with great examples from literature by authors adept at using the techniques described,

  • Finding Hildasay

    Finding Hildasay

    I came across Christian Lewis at the Hay Festival last year, when I went to see Raynor Winn speak about her new walking book Landlines and he was on the same panel, speaking about his transformational walking journey around the whole of the UK coastline, Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK Coastline and

  • Toxic

    Toxic

    I heard about Toxic: Women, Fame and the Noughties by Sarah Ditum before it came out and I listened to it earlier this year on audiobook, as a woman who came of age in the nineties, a very long time before Me Too, at a toxic time, when what was and wasn’t acceptable was very