The Man Who Invented Gaslighting
...another verb: I’ve been Hamiltoned; again and again I would sit down to read a few pages and then find that two hours had passed. His prose has a hallucinatory...
The Stylophile
...bonus to ornithological me – and the nib, when I tried it, had astonished me. You felt it had a mind of its own, and wanted to write. It glided...
Chambers Of Inspiration
...it had fascinated Du Maurier since she first saw it, aged 20, in 1927. She was especially intrigued by the tale of a skeleton discovered in a bricked-up room in...
Shackled to Sherlock
...Scott. For Doyle, Holmes had served his purpose. The detective had provided a sound income and made Doyle a recognised literary figure. Now he wanted to move on and so...
Hermann Hesse, LSD and Me
...died in 1962, was every bit as tormented as Harry Haller. On a personal level, this re-acquaintance with Steppenwolf showed me that, as an adult, I had acquired little of...
Jane Draycott
...for BBC Radio 3 (Sea Green I) and LBC (Rock Music, recorded at the Wallace Collection and on a rock face in the Wye valley) have won BBC Radio 3...
Voices From The Void
...As the teenage actors in ill-fitting costumes and boots breathed life into these voices I had spirited from the void, they captured hearts and consciences across the country. On we...