Jonathan Kemp discusses the difficulty of writing about sex and his influences when it came to writing Twentysix.

We've heard the awful statistics: 'one in three children do not own a book' and 'one in four leave primary school practically illiterate'...Carmel Shortall visits St. Thomas More Catholic School in North London to find out what can be done to encourage a new generation of readers (and writers).

Elizabeth Fremantle is a Birkbeck alumnus and author of Queen's Gambit - a novel about the life of Henry VIII's last wife Katherine Parr. Rebecca Rouillard interviews her about her book and her writing process.

The next in Gaylene Gould's Interior Dialogues Series: "The way our conscious sense of propriety interrupts our flow is one of the ghosts that must be killed before we can truly free our voice..."

Julia Bell interviews American poet Dorianne Laux about poetry and truth...

The next in Gaylene Gould's Interior Dialogues Series: Why do we write? In times of economic austerity it becomes increasingly difficult to justify the value of The Arts in society...

The water's rising and Brixton's afloat...we interview Superbard about his new interactive iBook The Flood.

The next interview in our Independent Publishers series: Katherine Vik speaks to Kevin Duffy of Bluemoose Books.