If you missed out on attending our popular Creative Non Fiction Festival, we’ve put together a wrap-up of several panels. First up, the panel on Travel Writing: But Not as You Know It, with Brendan Shanahan, Tim Elliott, Walter Mason and Delia Falconer In this panel we heard from speakers who took four very different […]

Ahead of our Creative Non-Fiction Festival on Saturday 2 November, festival director Benjamin Law joins us for a quick chat about jaw-droppingly good stories. Lee Gutkind describes creative non-fiction as ‘true stories well told.’ Can you expand on this definition for our readers? It’s odd: even now, some people think “creative non-fiction” is a contradiction […]

‘Smith is generous, not just to characters but to readers… She doesn’t separate high and low culture, because they’re all a part of one world in which she’s engaged, one where everyone is constantly straddling different race, class and education backgrounds.’