Creative writing degrees have sprung up like weeds in the literary landscape. At upwards of £9,000 a year, it’s easy to see their appeal to universities: they are nice little earners. For students they offer access to publishing, as well as the chance to concentrate on writing and to benefit
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Why do badly written books become bestsellers? It’s a question that banged against my consciousness as I tried to read 50 Shades of Grey, E L James’s unintentionally hilarious erotic fanfic tribute to Twilight. An ebook, it has become a self-publishing phenomenon, earning the British author an eye-watering advance from
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I am going to have a rant. Sorry, but after this weekend, I need one. What is the point of offering choice when those choices are ignored? That is the question I was left asking after the local education authority refused my child – among others – a place at
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