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Fuelling Creative Minds

Meg Rosoff’s provocation for the National Conversation

The Blank Page

Jon McGregor

A Writer’s Manifesto

Joanne Harris

The Science of Reading

Charles Fernyhough

Lost Stories, Unheard Voices – Diversity in Literature

Kerry Hudson

Four Examples of Diversity In Publishing

Nikesh Shukla

The Invisible Women

Kamila Shamsie

Enduring Stories

Erica Wagner

What’s Wrong With Amazon?

Isabelle Grey

The Civil War for Books: Where’s the Money Going?

by Philip Gwyn Jones

Living Translation

A National Conversation Event with Ali Smith

On Reading, Writing and Losing our Minds

With Will Self, Maureen Freely and Dan Franklin.

Will Self: On Writers, Readers, and Losing Our Minds

This piece is an original provocation by Will Self, delivered in person at Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday 4th October 2014, as part of the National Conversation. 

What’s the Point of Books?

Michael Rosen at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Why Books Matter – an introduction to the National Conversation

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