The secret life of toys

11:18am Monday 4th March 2013

Nione Meakin speaks to popular children's author and illustrator Jane Hissey about her latest cast of toybox characters.

Banishing the babble

12:00pm Monday 11th February 2013

Jenny Tregoning finds out from Dr Stephen Briers why self-help books can do more harm than good

Horror for kids

Charlie Higson. Photo by Charlie Hopkinson

9:54am Monday 15th October 2012

A horde of blood-drenched zombies are chasing petrified children through the streets of post-apocalypse London.

A port in the storm

10:56am Monday 17th September 2012

Some of the greatest poetry is that which helps us to make sense of the unthinkable. Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh used imagery from his daily life as a farmer to try to comprehend the devastation of the Second World War. By writing about what he knew, he was able to draw parallels between wars being fought on the world stage and the personal battles we face every day.

A time for rhymes

12:15pm Monday 10th September 2012

For Brighton-based teacher and poet Rachel Rooney, reigniting her childhood passion for writing had nothing to do with nostalgia.

Our city by the sea

3:34pm Monday 6th August 2012

So you think you know Brighton and Hove inside out? One man certainly does. Historian David Boyne has spent several months trawling through newspaper archives and poring over local reference books to find the most weird and wonderful facts about the area for his first book.

Until the end

9:00am Monday 26th March 2012

A muscled blue Minotaur is counting out 26 pills for a wheezing rhino connected to a canister of oxygen. So opens Brighton-based Aneurin (Nye) Wright’s epic Things To Do In A Retirement Home Trailer Park...

Best job in the world

8:40am Monday 27th February 2012

After almost 50 years in the same job, one might expect the novelty to have diminished somewhat. But Argus Appeal Patron Nick Owen admits he still gets a thrill from seeing his byline on a story, still “can’t understand”

Family Fiction

8:00am Monday 20th February 2012

Growing up in Zimbabwe, Fungi Woolnough-Murau spent many evenings sitting around a fire in her grandmother’s hut, listening to stories. “We were always encouraged to daydream and have fantasies,” she recalls, “to imagine other worlds and places far away.”



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