Much loved yet little read, for almost a century this strange, earnest and inconsolable novel has haunted the fringes of fiction.
It's a documentary, ostensibly, but it's also a genre-defying film about memory and fiction and their strange, liquid relationship with the truth.
We must ensure that future policy is based on fact not fiction.
That movie, as indicated, is United Passions, the cinematic drama about Fifa's glorious works which was commissioned by Sepp Blatter, and is actually no more of a work of fiction than real-life Fifa initiatives such as the Diaspora Legacy Programme.
His friend, Hussain Zaidi, is a popular author of crime fiction, which he bases on the stories he learned during his former career as a journalist.
It has nowhere near the pulling power of tractor beams envisaged in science fiction, but the first long-distance optical tractor beam has so far moved particles one fifth of a millimetre in diameter a distance of up to 20cm.
Well that has proved to be work of fiction.
Reading this has made me realise that some of the most powerful narratives in contemporary fiction have been written by young, highly educated female African writers, who are tired of the old clichés frequently bandied around about Africa.
Week 3: Characterisation - Monday 28 September Characters are at the heart of all fiction.
And once you've held onto them until the end, how do you bring your fiction to a successful closure?
Lucky for writers of children's fiction there are at least 10 opportunities for them to submit to prizes which are solely for fiction.
