Should this be a novel?
Fascinating glimpse of the journal of an anonymous sailor. 1) I want to go and see it. 2) There is surely novel material in here somewhere. 3) Lady Hester Stanhope…
Is there or isn’t there? A Guardian take on Literary Fiction.
One sentence in the opening of this article jumps out at me - 'Jane Austen...wrote fiction to entertain and to make money. And that is what we novelists have been…