CLARENDON HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

Has anyone noticed the ever-present 'comic companion’ in successful stories? He or she is virtually the same figure from tale to tale.  ...

One can read all the ’How to Write a Story’ guides that one can (including How Stories Really Work ) but actually sitting down to write a...

I’ve said earlier that there was one way for DC to go which might work in terms of out-creating Marvel: go ‘super-grim’, in an effort to...

Dickens is an author who can make you realise what reading is for .   Great Expectations  was on the reading list for teenagers in their...

Obviously you’ve got goals for your writing - right?   Not just the goal of penning a best-seller and being able to retire on the...

It was several years after I had first read The Lord of the Rings  that I realised that its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, was a close friend of...

An incomplete but workable glossary for anyone pursuing an interest in literature:   Adventure novel:  A novel where exciting events are...

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844, the eldest of nine children. Though he had won a poetry contest at school, he was devoutly...

Passion? Austen? What does that even mean? Passion in terms of a love between heroine and hero, and how it is presented to the reader by...