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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.

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Joanna Merifield wins prestigious Cambridge fiction prize

23 May 2014

Actress and screenwriter Joanna Merifield has won the fourth annual Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize with her novel, The Second Garden.

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‘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...

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The Searcher, a statue of CS Lewis by sculptor, Ross Wilson, at Holywood Arches Library in Belfast

CS Lewis: 50 years after his death a new scholarship will honour his literary career

08 Nov 2013

CS Lewis, creator of some of the most-loved children’s stories and also a scholar of medieval and early modern literature, died half a century ago on...

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South African crime-fiction wave hits Cambridge

20 May 2013

Amid high-profile, real-life murder investigations and growing concerns about public safety, a new breed of crime fiction is sweeping South Africa...

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Marcus Sedgwick is appearing at the 2011 Festival of Ideas

Marcus Sedgwick Q and A

05 Oct 2011

What would you sacrifice for someone you’ve loved forever?

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Children's books

Children’s literature an escape from the adult world

24 Sep 2011

A University of Cambridge academic is to suggest that grown-ups enjoy children’s classics because they are dissatisfied with life in the adult world...

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