Litopia After Dark

Four pence in every pound spent on a book last week went on the adventures of Anastasia Steele and the manipulative billionaire Christian Grey: whose dangerous couplings take place in E L James' Twilight-inspired trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed. The erotic h...

What with Leveson, Hunt, Murdoch... to say nothing of a double-dip recession... there's way too much bad news around... so enough already!...

This week we talk about why you shouldn’t expect a check for your Huffington Post blog; why you may never be able to write a cookbook, use your checkbook or book a flight again; why you might be hanged if you’re too uppity on Facebook; how to lose $1 million and still keep your job; a disappeari...

More news, ruminations and legal shenanigans for writers - presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox...

He's worked with Bjorn and Benny from ABBA, orchestrated the music for Inspector Morse, conducted some of the world’s greatest orchestras and his dance music has been played by the likes of Sasha, John Digweed, Paul Oakenfold and Nick Warren...

Rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear energy and weapons, Hilda Murrell's murder in 1984 entered the national consciousness and has never left (for Americans - think of her as Britain's Karen Silkwood)...

What with Benedict Cumberbatch’s radical new television interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, and the recent big-screen Guy Ritchie / Robert Downey / Jude Law action movies, the Baker Street seven per-center is enjoying a major revival of interest...

More news, ruminations and legal shenanigans for writers - presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox...

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood once noted that "the Colonies" (i.e. former British posessions) were not places where great literature was supposed to happen. That myopic view is well and truly demolished by tonight's guest: Australian writer Chris Womersley...

Today, Apple made a grab at the education market.

Not at part of it.

No.

All of it.

As authors, we've become quite accustomed to extremely large companies appropriating things. Think about Google unilaterally grabbing eBook rights. Or consider Amazon giving away our eBooks. You get the picture...