As the film of her novel Disobedience is released, the author reveals how writing about the strict Jewish community she grew up in made her realise she had to leave it
From Mary Shelley to Margaret Atwood, feminist science fiction writers have imagined other ways of living that prompt us to ask, could we do things differently?
Dylan’s Nobel prize win sparked a debate about lyrics as literature. Here, Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Johnny Marr, Naomi Alderman and others nominate songwriters whose verse has the power of poetry
The author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It was familiar with the darker aspects of life, which she explored in some decidedly adult stories
Got a brilliant beginning, or the seed of an idea? Authors offer their most important piece of advice – from finding a voice to the all-important ending
Hope springs eternal, but for it to flourish it must be shared