Novel

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Opinion: How to write a best-selling novel

05 Apr 2016

Andy Martin (Department of French) discusses the "magic potion" for writing a thriller.

Opinion: The man with no plot: how I watched Lee Child write a Jack Reacher novel

30 Nov 2015

Andy Martin (Department of French) discusses the year he spent sitting behind author Lee Child as he wrote the latest Jack Reacher novel.

Morning, or the Benevolent Sportsman by George Morland (1763-1804), Credit: Fitzwilliam Museum

Travellers under open skies: writers, artists and gypsies

30 Oct 2014

In her new book Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period , Sarah Houghton-Walker provides a fascinating insight into writers’ and artists...

‘Writing is but another form of conversation’: Laurence Sterne at 300

23 Nov 2013

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman turned a Yorkshire clergyman into a literary celebrity. Three hundred years after his birth on 24...