A vivid tale of three lives in Hitler’s Berlin and Gandhi’s India

Scottish writer and author of ‘The Wasp Factory’, Iain Banks, has died at 59 after he recently announced he was suffering from inoperable cancer.

We catch up with Howard Marks aka Mr Nice to discuss writing fiction, staying high and having no regrets.

Tom Ward is a prize-winning journalist and according to Tony Parsons ‘quite possibly the best young writer in the country’. Check out his brilliant debut novel, ‘A Departure’.

“My heart aches, for you do not seem to know / The worth of that subtle inner star. / If only you could see the lovely one / Who lies prostrate in who you think you are.”

Intriguing Interviews, Riveting Talks And Dynamic Spoken Word head to Lulworth Castle this summer

Grammatical glitches make your writing harder to read, and they turn readers off.

Have you ever read a book that moves you so much that you have to put it down for a while?

A journey through modern India

In this Olympic year, the Poetry Society explores the role sport plays in a young poet’s life – and whether there is more common ground between the two disciplines than commonly perceived