Writing the Global Culture, edited by Stan Smith, Nottingham Trent University ISBN: 1843840758 First published July 2006 £30.00 / US$60.0 ‘It’s a family joke,’ recalls Alex Portnoy in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, ‘that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm and hopefully…
Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection.
Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.
How do writers work? The differing habits of seven great authors are examined in this collection.
New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.
From a range of perspectives, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most urgent issues facing the creative writer in today’s academic institutions.
Sam Angus is the author of Soldier Dog which has been longlisted for the Carnegie Prize and the Redbridge Award amongst many others. What comes first – the narrative or the factual content? The narrative always comes first for me, I often go through a book after the first draft, adding in any contextual detail…
Tom Avery is a writer of fiction for children and a primary school teacher. His manuscript for Too Much Trouble won the 2010 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices award and was published on June 2nd 2011 by Frances Lincoln. How do you fit writing around full time teaching? Unfortunately, I have to be super organised. This is unfortunate…
Explore our interviews with authors of books for children, ranging from early years to young adult. The interviews were all carried out by members of the Children’s Literature Special Interest Group from 2012 to 2017.