Authors

The lucrative rise of the self-published best-seller

The lucrative rise of the self-published best-seller

Technology
Laura Adams

In 2012, the American dystopian fiction writer Hugh Howey entered the rarefied ecosystem of blockbusting authors when his book Wool began selling ...

A new space race has begun. If we don’t act now, it could trigger a war worse than WWII

A new space race has begun. If we don’t act now, it could trigger a war worse than WWII

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

For millennia, the Moon has been an object of wondrous speculation: deified as a goddess, hymned in poetry and blamed for madness. ...

‘I was outed as gay in the 1990s by a Vanity Fair article’

‘I was outed as gay in the 1990s by a Vanity Fair article’

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Sophie Anderson

Patricia Cornwell is a crime novelist and ex-journalist. Born in Florida, she moved to North Carolina and began her career as a ...

Gregory Doran on Shakespeare’s First Folio

Gregory Doran on Shakespeare’s First Folio

Entertainment
James Parker

The First Folio has sometimes been regarded as a colonial imposition, intentionally stamping the supposed supremacy of the English language on other ...