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Jeanette Winterson asks how AI will give new meaning to ghost stories and Kate Grenville reflects on a lifetime of writing and how accepting failure has been key to her success. Jeanette Winterson is best known for her novels Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Stone Gods and Frankissstein. Her long fascination with mortality, religion and technology have come together in a new book of short stories, Night Side of the River (Jonathan Cape), which considers what technology might mean for the futu...

(1) AGENTS OF BOGOSITY. At Writer Beware, Victoria Strauss teaches readers “How to Spot a Fake Literary Agency”. As if writers didn’t have enough to contend with, the past couple of years have seen a huge rise in scammers posing as literary agencies. I’m not talking here about the imposters who “borrow” the names of real agents

The writer, who is giving this year’s TS Eliot lecture at the Abbey Theatre, on scientific advances’ ramifications for art, literature and the human race

Films and books transport us to worlds where goblins and wraiths roam free. Urban legends and myths would have us believe that anything can happen anytime!The success behind books that scare us silly is that we want to be scared again, and again. But what frightened us last time won’t frighten us again, and therein lies the catch.

THE WASHINGTON POST – One summer when I was 13 or 14, I began telling scary stories to the younger kids in my neighbourhood. I’d sit on our front porch steps after supper and in the growing twilight launch into some shivery classic such as The Hook. That’s the one about the teenage couple and […]

GYLES Brandreth was on his usual good form at the Kings Hall on Saturday as part of Ilkley Literature Festival, sporting a corgi-embroidered jumper…

The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit author’s volume of spooky tales is a spirited mix of the witty, playful and poignant

The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit author has turned her hand to ghost stories (and not all of them are fiction). By John Self

Over a long lunch, the writer talks about ghostly encounters, embracing AI, rebelling against convention and why our future human life holds no fears for her

Ilkley Literature Festival has a reputation for bringing icons of literature to the spa town and in its 50th year 2023 is no exception.