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Even the simplest story is driven forward on the back of the basic questions ‘What will happen next?’ and ‘What is really going on?’ They...

Successful stories ask readers four key questions: ‘What will happen next?’ This question forms the basis of even the most primitive tale...

Detective stories are amongst the most popular genre of tale in the modern age, and it’s not hard to see why. Set in a recognisably...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

Twenty years ago, John Devon Roland Pertwee (pictured above with William Hartnell in the 1953 comedy film Will Any Gentleman...?) born in...

What a week Clarendon House Publications has just had! It started with the publication of Ruth Morgan’s short story collection The...

I lived for some years on Highgate Hill in North London. A small statue of a black cat, protected from passers-by by a cage, supposedly...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

Narrative’ as a term originated in the 17th century and comes from the Latin word ‘narrat-‘ meaning ‘related, told’, which comes from the...

In the long history of Doctor Who, there have been many casting choices - and some that didn't quite happen. 1. Hugh David In another...