… or at least, his pen…
Unbound is about connecting authors with readers – but where are they sitting when they’re writing their books or talking with their supporters?
Some of our authors share where they write below. Do you work somewhere unusual? We’d love to know where your favourite places to get creative with…
Ted Underwood’s take on an academic paper exploring how “character can be modeled grammatically. If you can use natural language processing to parse sentences, you should be able to identify what’s being said about a given character.”
Includes link to original paper.
Adrian Teale on crowd-funding and eighteenth century courtesan-turned-writer Mary “Perdita” Robinson
The 18th century was a golden age for newspapers. The press delighted in cataloguing scandals, so the parallels with today’s media are obvious.
Image from Sorensiim
There’s a conveyor belt of content industries moving slowly towards a large crunching machine. The machine has ‘digital technology’ crudely stencilled on it, and as each industry goes through it, it comes out the other side almost unrecognisable: it started with…
This should be huge fun, so if you’re in the area, do come & join us. And if you want to know more about the intense friendship between William Cowper & William Hayley… buy my book
The letters of WIlliam Hayley’s first wife, Eliza
Eating copious amounts of chocolate when we’re meant to be at the gym. Watching Made in Chelsea instead of that edifying new documentary on BBC4. Reading something juicy and commercial instead of the Booker-nominated books on our shelves…
We all have guilty…
Every so often one special book will call out to you like a ray of sunshine after a shower of rain and it will urge you to shout, ‘Yes! This is the one! This is the best book I’ve ever read!’
One person’s favourite book can be another’s nightmare – but it’s only…
Charles Dickens. AA Milne. Jane Austen. Jamie Oliver…
With so many authors it’s difficult to name one absolute favourite – often our most beloved books aren’t written by our must-read author. But if you had to pick one, who would you…
