Books

Student Ed Suckling reports on The Chase star and Mastermind champion Shaun Wallace's talk at the Bishop's Stortford College Festival of Literature

Eleanor Kent catches up with charity challenge hero Jamie McDonald ahead of his Bishop's Stortford College Festival of Literature appearance.

College student Charlie Hughes on former England cricketer Matthew Hoggard's appearance at the Bishop's Stortford College Festival of Literature.

Chris Carter catches up with Shaun Wallace – the first Chaser on the ITV quiz show – just in time before his appearance at Bishop's Stortford College.

Bishop's Stortford College Festival of Literature speaker Matthew Hoggard tells the Indie he has swapped leather on willow for burgers on charcoal.

Tammy Cohen will be interviewed at Bishop's Stortford College Festival of Literature on Wednesday February 12 about her career as a thriller writer.

Bestselling author Emma Curtis will be telling her story at the Bishop's Stortford College Festival of Literature on Wednesday February 12.

Teacher Jo Patel and author Josie Dom are hiding books around the town for children to find and enjoy for National Reading Day on Thursday.

Saffron Walden author's work has earned her international recognition and prospect of one of her books being turned into a film with Angelina Jolie.

Bishop's Stortford College Festival of Literature 2020 starts on February 6 and promises to be another celebration of storytelling in all its forms

Ian McFadyen says he has every intention of continuing with detective Inspector Steve Carmichael's sleuthing in rural Lancashire.

A promise made to a young woman in Zambia in 1980 first sparked his desire to write – but it took Brian Godfrey 35 years to fulfil that pledge.

Of Sweat and Other Joys tells the story of a family and their journeys over the course of several years to Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Named after a cafe in St Albans, the book Pilgrims Rest explores the 16th-century building’s mysterious tunnel to the city’s cathedral.

John Tarrow turned a former Dunmow council semi into a labyrinth of 13 themed rooms – now it's the inspiration for his children's fantasy novel

Journalist Christopher Hadley, a Stortford rugby club coach, has been working on his epic read about Piers Shonks for a decade

Join six writers – including New Statesman editor Jason Cowley and the Indie's Emma Vandore – for free Vanguard Readings event in Harlow

Young Wren-Ophelia Claydon, who starts at Manor Fields school soon, has never eaten any animal product and always checks if food “has animals in it”

A 25-year-old author, who started writing his own short stories when he was a pupil at Richard Whittington Primary, has unveiled his literary debut

First there was the blog, then the Indie column... now Stortford's Julie Walker has had The Parkinality Poetry Book published