nothing in the rulebook
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Tag: writing
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The literary world’s most notorious booby prize is back for its 27th year, as the Literary Review announces the shortlist for its infamous ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ award. The award is given to authors who have “produced an outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel”, according to judges. The purpose of…
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Telling stories about sexuality can be scary. In this article, Kate Orson explains how writing can throw off society’s chains and rewrite your sexual self.
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Check out our list of famous books that you can now download and read online without spending a penny.
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3 books, 2 hosts and 1 mystery author, Poking Books is the new literary guessing game podcast
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A Terry Pratchett fan describes the difficulty in moving on to read new books after the death of their literary hero
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Descending jellyfish legs bolt down like an awning…new poetry from Ben Armstrong
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“Nietzsche did warn us not to stare” – new writing from Ben Armstrong
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“Terribly magnificent” – for remembrance day, we have chosen 13 war poems, which you can read for free here
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It’s day fifty-three of Dan Jones’ book tour and he’s in The White Hart Hotel in Lincoln, eating haddock goujons. I’m opposite him, recording everything he says. He’s already offered me a goujon, as many olives as I’d like. The White Hart Hotel is a pretty fancy place for Lincoln; earlier, while I waited for…
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Before long I am deep in the earth in a chamber with all of you. We fell fast, then through wet ground as droplets cast down from clouds beating out their Sunday best after a week’s drought. We must have been high to have fallen this far //hammered into the ground, bent…
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