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Use "torque" to twist your stories at the last minute and keep your readers on the edge of their seats.

Use dramatic structure to keep your hero and your readers hanging - not yourself!

Gaudy Night is a thriller, a novel of ideas and a romance, as Harriet Vane and Peter Wimsey investigate crimes in a women's college in 1930s Oxford.

Story climax and resolution. Two elements of plot audience members may not be able to tell apart. But as a writer, you must know the difference and master the art.

The plotting of fiction is a time consuming but crucial process that bears examination.

The character of Antonio in Twelfth Night has caused disagreement: is he a bluff comrade of Sebastian, or tormented by a homoerotic attraction?

Ngaio Marsh's detective novel "Hand in Glove" provides the traditional mixture of clues, alibis, and entertaining snobbery.

The West Wing, created by Aaron Sorkin, has had more political effect than a TV drama can support.

Angelina Jolie's affecting performance and pitch-perfect period details lift Clint Eastwood's mostly riveting, occasionally leaden voyage into the Los Angeles underbelly.

In Away We Go a thirty-something year old couple ask the big question "Are we screwed up?", and find out that yes, they are - but so is everyone else.

Ben Kingsley played Feste in Trevor Nunn's 1996 film version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, giving a truly engrossing portrayal of an elusive character,

A sensual compilation published by Phaze books, makes up 'Brushes', author M. Christian's new novel examining the rise to fame of artist Escobar from many points of view.

Depeche Mode premiered its first track, Wrong, from their new album Sounds of the Universe at the February 2009 Echo 2009 awards in Berlin, Germany.

Denzel Washington and John Travolta star in Tony Scott's tense action remake of Seventies classic thriller.

Papua New Guinea is home to some rare and endemic species. The drawback to this date was lack of a suitable conservation reserve. The new National Park rectifies this.

The new Indiana Jones movie was almost bound to be a let-down

When Elizabethan playwrights found the public loved gruesome tales of revenge, they embarked on a new genre. And it became a monster...

The Hound of the Baskevilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle, shows the great scientific detective Sherlock Holmes in a novel with distinctly Gothic tendencies.

Intrepid antiques dealer Lara McClintoch searches for Chinese antiquity in the final book of Lyn Hamilton's Archaeological Mystery series.

The Moving Finger is technically a Miss Marple novel, written in the same year as Why Didn't They Ask Evans? But it's a very different novel.

Does writer Fernley Phillips underestimate his audience with this thriller?

Science Fiction from Robert Reed, Neal Barrett Jr., and Jack Skillingstead, Grande Dame Carole Emshwiller, newcomers Ted Kosmatka and J. Chris Rock, reviews and columns.

The comments in Jessica Mann's introduction to Margery Allingham's Traitor's Purse could be applied equally to Dick Francis' fine -- if flawed 1982 novel, Banker.

Conrad Williams, Steve Nagy contribute stories, Tony Lee reviews DVDs, Peter Tennant on books, while Stephen Volk offers opinion on Richard Matheson's I Am Legend

Ditzy and Champion is slower than writers such as Kathy Reichs, Paretsky and Patricia Cornwell; that's deliberate, for Jack Adler writes cozy mysteries in a lighter vein.

The final episode of Season 4 was full of drama, tension, passion and sorrow. What's next for the intrepid time traveller? Will there be a new Doctor?

The Doctor and Martha travel back to the sixteenth century and meet the immortal bard, who is manipulated by the sinister Carrionites, an ancient race of word smiths.

Following the footsteps of the characters in Daphne du Maurier's novel 'Jamaica Inn' shows how much remains unchanged on Bodmin Moor.

Andrew Davies, master adaptor, takes on Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens's timely and prescient tale of mystery, romance and money set in and around a debtors' prison.

Following such demonic themed films as Rosemary's Baby, and The Omen, The Haunting of Molly Hartley follows a teen's terror as she's about to turn 18 years old. 4/10

British gangsters Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) hole up in a Bruges hotel at Christmas, awaiting orders from their psychopathic boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes)

A five-part documentary included on the Special Collector's Edition DVD adds greater value to this exciting romantic drama from 1985.

While John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" may not look like much, more akin to a novella in its short stature - it is a beautiful and emotionally resonating narrative.

The Mills and Boon company is one hundred years old. Despite the critics, it continues to grow in popularity and diversity.

2029/Magnolia's Two Lovers, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Isabella Rosselini and Gwyneth Paltrow, is a story of love versus temptation that doesn't reach its goals. 6/10.

Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow and Walter Jon Williams are name-checked, but the influences of the Lucky Strike parties and other South African stories are equally strong.

This killer-kid horror film modulates its malevolence well thanks to a sturdy theme, an unnerving turn from Isabelle Fuhrman and one doozy of a late-film development.

With an emphasis on the visual, this quirky tale explores the excitement of a family car trip and the transition from city life to a rural setting.

This partial synopsis and brief analysis of the American cult film classic "Reefer Madness" examines some of this early motion picture's themes and techniques.

Girl on the Platform (ISBN 978-0007270088, Harper 2008) is a short, light read, particularly suite to readers who enjoy romance, tinged with humour and contemporary life.

A women's prison provides the focal point of four lives that intersect in unexpected ways.

Brandon Sanderson is a new author of fantasy, and his sophomore release is just as exciting and intriguing as his first.

Most people can be easily tempted into dismissing films about demons and the anti-Christ as mindless horror films even though some have something to say.

The stunning carvings inside Rosslyn chapel are worth seeing on their own merit, and readers of the Da Vinci Code will get an extra frisson as they recognise the site.

Is Beckett's view of man's condition entirely desolate? What comfort and peace can be found amidst the nihilism and chronological trapping in Waiting for Godot?

This is the first article in a series of critiques of Italian director Roberto Rossellini's historical films.

The Walt Disney Sleeping Beauty story is only half the tale and is sanitized. In some early, more gruesome accounts, even the prince wasn't a completely nice guy.

Karin Slaughter's Undone stands out in the oft belittled Suspense genre. She expertly guides the reader to crescendo and denouement creating room for a compelling series.

Elizabeth George's What Came Before He Shot Her is the first London-based crime novel by the American writer to feature characters outside her usual ensemble.

(500) Days Of Summer is the debut feature from music video director Marc Webb, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.