Literary

* From Shakespeare to JK Rowling; the art of writing.

* Books as opposed to novels. What makes a great manuscript? Top literary agents dispel their tastes and secrets to us.

* Developing ideas for film and television, from script to screen. Hollywood attitudes to books as intellectual property.

* Books as blockbusters. What are your tastes? Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper or Harold Robbins? Or do you prefer the thriller, sci-fi?

* Great literature in England ; Jane Austen, Charles Dickens.

* The phenomena of children’s fantasy.

* Literature and its relationship with the film industry.

* The art of writing. Fiction as opposed to non-fiction.

* Literature in different cultures; English, Greek, Chinese, African, Latin, Indian, European styles; the power of the word.