Elizabeth McCracken’s, whose fiction I’ve loved for years, has just published A Long Game: How to Write Fiction. It’s full of zingers, such as: “A writing life, I’ve come to believe, is a years-long ...

I doubt there’s a writer alive who hasn’t used their personal battles in their work. In this respect, I’m a big fan of the ...

Television producer whose long-running partnership with Dennis Potter resulted in landmark drama serials including Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective ...