For those who aren’t writers and still in the lovely rosy world of ‘you write a book, find an agent and get published, surely?’ this is an eye-opener on the new world of writing. Book-publishing has changed enormously. Many publishers are now only interested in the kind of books that you’ll find in Asda, Sainsburys …
This is an excerpt from The Courage Game, the moment where Gladys is involved in the mass window-breaking in central London organized by Christabel Pankhurst. I approached cautiously, dodging vehicles – far more vans and smart cars than were yet evident in Birmingham. The vehicles screened me from view, so that I was able to …
I have been obsessed with mythology, particularly Greek mythology which was what I was brought up with, since I was a child. To prove it, here is a poem, written when I was sixteen, in the sixth-form of my boarding-school. No More No more are the mud-hut kings and queensIn their hovelled hound-bitten warsGaping chariots …
This is the episode where Hades actually kidnaps Persephone… He saw her some while ago in the meadow with friends and she is as fascinated by him as if he were a new breed of wild animal she has discovered. Having lived alone in the Underworld for centuries, with only the dead for company, his …