by Giles Broadbent | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog
The golden age of TV has a new star – real life. So why have documentaries become big news? And what does it mean for good old-fashioned fiction? Truth is stranger than fiction – but truth isn’t much of a stranger any more. It’s everywhere – at least in the...
by Giles Broadbent | May 14, 2020 | Books
Dylan Thomas Day celebrates the poet and his achievements. But how should you tackle the sozzled Welsh wordsmith – and what is Under Milk Wood? Here’s the single thing you need to know about the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. He wrote Under Milk Wood. That should be enough....
by Giles Broadbent | Apr 30, 2020 | Techniques
The habits of our great writers are often fixed. And hugely important as routines lead to results. But how would they handle the Great Lockdown? So, here’s our game. What if Ravengate Publishing had just signed contracts with some of the greatest writers in history....
by Giles Broadbent | Apr 16, 2020 | Books
Surviving Hell – the title of Nick Dunn’s story of injustice and perilous prisons – seems a fitting tagline for our current Covid-19 predicament, don’t you think? The autobiography, which I edited for Mirror Books and which is on sale now, tells a twin-track tale. In...
by Giles Broadbent | Mar 26, 2020 | Blog
This Anglo-French reimagining of HG Wells’ classic story follows survivors who team up after an ET attack. We look at how the series was set up It’s the end of the world as we know it Who needs another end-of-an-epoch disaster series when we’re living one IRL? The...
