Falmouth's favourite reading night returns on Tuesday 29 September with a bumper volume of tales at the Falmouth Townhouse. 

This month's theme is Snapshot.

I bet I wasn't the only person at the Ian Rankin interview at this year's London Book Fair who felt reassured by his opening assertion that novelists are lazy. Surely if a world famous bestseller confesses to being lazy then there's hope for us all? Jane Cronin reports.

Hilary Mantel tells Matt Cox her strategies for completing a historical narrative when the facts are missing.

This week – because it's the Easter hols and we all deserve to put our feet up with a good book – we've nominated not our regular writing blog, but a reading blog. 

This is why we love Twitter - we get to hook up with inspiring writers full of information about the market for specific genres.

Here's another of our new best Twitter friends.

In this new feature we'll be showcasing some of the fantastic friends we've been making on Twitter. Writers, agents, producers, even cows (more on that next week).

“Novelists get to the heart of things; journalists can’t,” said Blake Morrison speaking recently at University College Falmouth. Heather Hosking tells all.

Campaigning environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real England, gives Dan Cadwallader advice on telling stories about the real world.

Paul Kingsnorth on narrative non-fiction

Sophie Parkin tells Phil Williams how the recession of the early 90s prompted her to switch career – and how she started earning a living from writing.