Harriet Reuter Hapgood, author of our Waterstones Loves title this month, The Square Root of Summer, shares her ten rules of bohemian families in fiction.
They say the first line is one of the most important parts of a book. Get it right and the readers’ eyes are all yours, get it wrong and they’ll start looking around, distracted by the feet of strangers or two birds fighting over a sandwich.
Trains, drugs and a mysterious woman feature in this week's #WednesdayStory, started by The Human's author Matt Haig and finished by our lovely Twitter followers. Here's what you came up with:
Pills, mechanical bears and bone keys feature in this week's Wednesday Story, started by Queen of Teen James Dawson and finished by our Twitter authors. Here's what you came up with.
Yesterday, we asked our Twitter followers to help us write a story. The first and final lines were written by Liz De Jager, author of Banished and Vowed. But where did it go from there? Here's what you came up with.
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