

'That Hideous Strength': A Thriller with a Purpose
Out of the Silent Planet, Voyage to Venus and That Hideous Strength are in fact three different attempts to accomplish the same...


A Word About 'Sizeism'
‘Sizeism’ is a coined term to describe the prejudice which seems in-built in a modern conception of the universe and its nature. As we...


Developing a Business Narrative
In order to market your business - and indeed, in order to more fully understand and enjoy what it is that you do yourself - it is wise...

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


What Type of Organisation is Yours?
There are three basic types of businesses: those which are driven by products, those which are driven by markets, and those which are...


The Silent Planet
Out of the Silent Planet was Lewis’s first attempt to use the tool of a novel to try to convey to an audience something of his...


C. S. Lewis's First Novel: 'Almost Felt, Wholly Imagined'
Out of the Silent Planet, published in 1938, was Lewis’s first novel and our first glimpse of how he would use fiction to express what he...

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


Comedy in 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is presented as being a traditional comedy, displaying notable features of slapstick, farce and...


The Words of Lord Dunsany
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878 – 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, who published mainly...