Writers often search for inspiration in the extraordinary: a thrilling adventure, a dramatic romance, or a mysterious event ...

My favorite piece of fictional writing of all time is the play for voices, Under Milk Wood by the Welsh writer, Dylan Thomas. It opens like this: “To begin at the beginning”. If you want to put human ...

Alice suffers from a serious illness called prosopagnosia - she can't see people's faces. This young girl is in a mental hospital, but she doesn't remember how she got there or anything about the past ...

The Buxton Corporation Waterworks up in Harpur Hill was built in 1957 for the purpose of serving the nearby Stanley Moor reservoir. The reservoir’s principal feeds were two nearby streams, to the west ...