Magazine writing tips, exploding minds of the romantic female, books that you can actually touch, BBC booktalk and a writers cafe.

From overnight successes, animals farms and bookshelf aestheticism, to Austen, auctions and motivations 

A bag of books, competitions, reviews, literary events... and Philip Roth

Vampires, science fiction and literature festivals. Served shaken, not stirred.

The Wednesday After That Weekend - Reviews, metamorphosis, literary quizzes, writer's block cures and a little dog

Revolutions and royal weddings!!

Begin your news today with Zadie Smith's Rules for Writing, pause for a radio documentary on Virginia Woolf's holiday writing home, the tragic location of her death and amuse yourself with Poems for a Wedding from Carole Ann Duffy

Wednesday's Dawn Chorus: Freeing the Census, warnings, books clubs, pseudonyms and The Orwell Prize