My Uneventful Correspondence with the Unabomber

TBT: (A bit of) how’s your father

This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us on another journey into the never ending world of weird and…

Top Ten Beautiful Writing Huts

We all love their houses, we all crave their studies, and we drool over their libraries; and now we’re collating the top ten writer’s huts that we’ve all drooled over thus…

George Orwell: time traveller, prophet or product of his time?

The supreme novel Nineteen eighty-four, written by George Orwell in 1949, was met with warm but not unanimous acclaim. Whilst most described it as a book of high quality, its true profundity was not yet observable, since…

Prose speaks to literary agent eve white

We have a treat for you today, by bringing you an interview with actress turned successful London Literary Agent and extremely nice person, Eve White. Eve explains…

Lolita Book/Film Splice

The next instalment comparing books to their film adaptations

Shakespeare’s Hamlet Book/Film Splice

I’m pleased to continue this series of book and film comparisons with my all-time favourite…

Confessions of a Grammar Nazi

I hate bad grammar.

Prose talks to New York Book Editors

NY Book Editors is a premiere affiliation of editors with extensive experience from New York’s major publishing houses. We spoke to William Boggess there and managed to put some of the questions we thought you’d all like to know about Editors and Editing. He was…

Throwback Thursday: The Etymology of Prig Prig (prig) n., v. (rare or obs.) priggish, adj.