Over the course of the 20th century, technology’s influence on writing wasn’t so much in what was written or the words we used but rather in the manner in which we wrote.

The English dictionary isn’t the first, there are instances of dictionaries from Sumerian times, with the oldest surviving being a Chinese one from the 3rd century BCE.

Writing has been transformative for us, evolving at an incredible rate, when considered against how long it has taken us to do the same.

This beautifully written, unusual novel explores the destructive nature of prejudice and mob violence.

In Kick, Budi works in a footwear factory in Indonesia, making the football boots he longs to wear but is unlikely to ever afford.

It’s always good to have a rough idea of how things are going to turn out when you’re first planning your story.

literary examples that use metafiction in other ways are Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, which features Death himself as a narrator.

The literary equivalent of Marmite. You’ll either love The Alchemist or hate it, which is exactly why you should read it, to find out which side of the coin you’re on.

The first and only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, Maus is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor and the son who survives him.

Orwell’s dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever.