Opinion: How to write a best-selling novel
05 April 2016Andy 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 November 2015Andy Martin (Department of French) discusses the year he spent sitting behind author Lee Child as he wrote the latest Jack Reacher novel.
Travellers under open skies: writers, artists and gypsies
30 October 2014In her new book Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period, Sarah Houghton-Walker provides a fascinating insight into writers’ and artists’ portrayals of wanderers. Her study focuses on a period when gypsies’ fragile place in the landscape, and on the margins of society, came increasingly under threat.
‘Writing is but another form of conversation’: Laurence Sterne at 300
23 November 2013The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman turned a Yorkshire clergyman into a literary celebrity. Three hundred years after his birth on 24 November 1713, Laurence Sterne’s quirky take on the novel continues to inspire. Dr Mary Newbould explores Sterne’s lasting impact.
