Spinning stories: the difference between fiction writers and politicians

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Beginning a History of Marriage Equality

5 Tops Ways to Write Your Memoir in 2015

Word Origins as Comics: Speaking and Writing Properly-- You Gotta Be Kiddin'!

These Were The Year's Most Controversial TV Episodes

Why I Read 52 Books This Year

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Outlander brings Diana Gabaldon fans flocking to Scotland

Broadening Your Event Horizon

The House on Mango Street Goes to Trial: #MayaVsAZ

A Hilarious Way To Cut Out All The Bad People In Your Life This New Year

One True Thing

Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman by Joan Rothfuss – review

15 Inspiring Literary Quotes That Will Start Your New Year Off Right

Carol Ann Duffy: a great public poet who deserves her public honour

Cheers To Ernest Hemingway's Black Currant Liqueur

Extreme adventures: the best stories of real-life peril

How to draw… Big Ben

Val McDermid: Jane Austen's equal? - books podcast

Life-Like by Toby Litt review – marital ennui with Paddy and Agatha

Let Me Be Frank with You by Richard Ford, review: 'mortality hangs heavy'

The new year’s eve poem: New Year Party

Families in literature: the Jarndyces in Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Storytelling Power of Sofia Samatar

The Jane Effect: A New Book Celebrating Jane Goodall

Bill Nye Has A 'Trashy' New Year's Resolution

52 Things Ideas for Writers for 2015

"Rain on the Dead:" A Talk With Jack Higgins