When to use direct speech, and when to use reported? We tend to see the former more these days because so many novel-writers take their c...

It's been a frustrating year. My interactive reworking of Frankenstein was published to critical acclaim and won a Kirkus star , and...

You know how the summer holiday adverts start appearing on TV the moment the turkey and tinsel are cleared away. In the same spirit,...

FARADAY'S GHOST IT WAS LATE in the afternoon of Wednesday, 24th December in the year 1890. The sky had been steely grey since dawn...

I'm just back from a week in Cornwall where Roz and I stayed in the Egyptian House , the first of many Landmark Trust properties that ...

I'd hoped to have some really big news by now, but it turns out it's bigger than I thought, and will require Leo to dust off his c...

You'll be forgiven for a sense of déjà vu . Hot on the digital heels of our NOOK release , the first eight issues of Mirabilis are now o...