How to Write Like Tolstoy

A Spectator Best Book of the Year ';There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. ';Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.' So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gauntletswriting a good sex scene? Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a fascinati...