Connie has fought cancer three times in her life, but this time things are different. Connie is dying and she doesn’t have much time left. Faced with the fight of her life, she set her brother Samuel the toughest challenge she could think of. To set a new Guinness World Record for the most distance travelled on a unicycle, raise $1 million and spread Connie’s message of breast cancer awareness.... Read more

Samuel Johnson, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the English language, was born on this day in 1709. We’ve put together a few facts about the man described as “arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history.” – Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755, and remains arguably the most influential wo... Read more

A writer needs advice from all and sundry, and often receives it whether they like it or not. But from these great writers of the past any advice is good advice, even if it can be a little off the wall… Read more

The 19th century British philosopher John Stuart Mill once remarked, “The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.” The world of writing is filled with just the eccentric folk Mill was talking about. We’ve pi... Read more