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Guest blog: Audrey Niffenegger on writing a novel

12 & 13 April 2013. You must book by 3 April

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When we heard about best selling author Audrey Niffenegger’s condensed two day novel writing course in a posh Tunbridge Wells hotel with lots of good food and wine, we wished we could sign up. But we’re not writing a novel,Continue reading

Halloween Prize draw: win tickets to hear Mark Gatiss reading ghost stories, plus five great spooky books

Fri 28 Oct, 10.30pm. Prize draw ends: Fri 21 Oct, 5pm

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If you’ve got young kids, you’ll do a great deal of reading aloud, but when was the last time someone read aloud to you. Or you read aloud to an actual peer? It’s a serious pleasure that shouldn’t be

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Art: Portrait photographer Hoppé at the National Portrait Gallery

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize until 20 Feb; Hoppé until 30 May

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Before Mario Testino, before Richard Avedon, E.O Hoppé was the portrait photographer of his time (1878 – 1972). From his 33-room Kensington Studio he photographed Margot Fonteyn, Mussolini, Henry James, Albert Einstein, Vita Sackville-West and King George VI with Queen… Continue reading