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Earlier this month I was asked by Penguin Ltd to present my thoughts about a book that I think is relevant to modern fiction. I chose a...

I have been editing texts for over ten years. In that time I have worked with all kinds of source material: academic theses and articles,...

If you want to improve your writing, then a good place to start is by teaching yourself to spot redundant adjectives. They appear in all...

The word “up” is a parasite, an invader, a tyrant. It latches on to other words, dilutes meaning and leads to unimaginative sentences. It...

This little punctuation mark can often cause confusion for writers. This is not surprising, since the rules that govern it are not always...

Every eye has a natural blind spot; the place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina at the back of the eye. You might not have...