KEEP CALM AND LOVE BOOKS
KEEP CALM AND LOVE BOOKS
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Victor Hugo's strange cure for writers block and 8 things you didn't know about him
Hugo first had the idea for a novel that explored injustice and social misery in the 1830s. Despite this early germination, a year after The Hunchback of Notre Dame was published, Les Miserables wouldn't be finished until 1862. The work is believed to have taken Hugo 17 years to write.
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How the story of one family bookshop shows the true state of Britain's high streets
That might have been the story once upon a time. But today, the business of selling literature on the British high street looks somewhat different. Just ask the Segrue family who - after just 13 months - are being forced to shut the independent bookshop they had always dreamt of owning.
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The best poetry books for Christmas
L-R: Say Something Back by Denise Riley, Falling Awake by Alice Oswald, Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
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