Perhaps Catton’s grant shouldn’t even be contained to literature. Between books, film, TV and music, culture is a melting pot of intersecting themes, ideas and motifs that feed on and grow out of one another. Look at the depth and complexity of Breaking Bad (famously pitched to network AMC as a cross-pollenation of literary character Mr Chips and Scarface), the technological ambition and Hemingway-esque iceberg technique storytelling of Gravity, or the emotional intensity of videogame The Last Of Us – contemporary popular culture is in exceptional health. There are plenty of works across various cultural forms that could inspire over-worked authors.