"This isn't any old book. It's got some pages missing and my brother knocked his drink over it, but still it's important to me. It reminds me of a special day when I was seven years old. Altogether, ...

Roald Dahl's career as a children's author began after the birth of his children. As Ophelia notes in the clip above, Dahl's books stemmed from the stories that he would often tell his children before ...

Roald Dahl spent two years at the Cathedral School in Llandaff, from the age of seven to nine. He then moved to St Peter's boarding school in Weston-super-Mare and suffered from homesickness. At the ...

Owen Sheers is an award-winning poet and short story writer, an exciting young talent whose work has been described by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion as "sharp, fresh, clear and ambitious".

Devon schoolchildren are celebrating the launch of a new history book they helped to produce. Pupils at Paignton's Oldway ...

A town's civic centre is to be sold off in an effort to save a cash-strapped local authority money. Castleford Civic Centre, ...

They cared for their own pet goat, ventured to the forest, and played in the snow. When I was seven, I decided "I will leave here and live in a place with snow and squirrels." I had to wait though; I ...

Other popular works were produced, such as almanacs, and there was a popular revival of eisteddfodau, a cultural festival dating back to medieval times. As literacy began to spread throughout the ...

Autistic people from around the UK are being invited to take part in a university study aimed at "kick-starting a wider ...

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However, the story of Arthur's sword, Excalibur, may have had its roots in Welsh literature. While it was not said to have ...

At eighteen I had to escape. I had to find my own way. I went to Oxford and Africa and London. I worked at turning people's thoughts into words and their words into books.